Acquired resistance to echinocandins in Candida albicans: case report and review
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Acquired resistance to echinocandins in Candida albicans: case report and review.
OBJECTIVES A patient with Candida albicans thrush and oesophagitis was treated with high doses of caspofungin but treatment eventually failed. Four C. albicans isolates were serially recovered before and after caspofungin treatment. A microbiological study was performed to characterize these four isolates. METHODS In vitro antifungal susceptibility testing was performed by the EUCAST referenc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0305-7453,1460-2091
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkm095