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ArticleClinical microbiology newsletter2016

Hot topics in antifungal susceptibility testing: A new drug, a bad bug, sweeping caspofungin testing under the rug, and solving the ECV shrug.

Shawn R Lockhart, Elizabeth L Berkow

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Article in Clinical microbiology newsletter, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Shawn R LockhartMycotic Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.
Elizabeth L BerkowMycotic Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.

Funding

Intramural CDC HHS CC999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There are several new hot topics in antifungals and antifungal susceptibility testing. In this review, four topics of general interest to the clinical microbiology community are discussed. The first topic is the introduction of isavuconazole, a new triazole approved for clinical use in the US. The second is triazole resistance in

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PMID29545657
PMCPMC5849271

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