Utility of Chromagar Medium for Antifungal Susceptibility Testing of Candida Species Against Fluconazole and Voriconazole in Resource Constrained Settings
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K.E.M. Hospital, Parel, Mumbai-400012. Abstract Due to cost and complexity, reference broth microdilution antifungal susceptibility method is not feasible in resource constraint setting. Therefore here is a need to develop a cost effective method which would help in simultaneous rapid identification of Candida species and performance of disc diffusion susceptibility testing. Comparison of results of disc diffusion susceptibility testing of Candida isolates against fluconazole and voriconazole was performed on CHROMagar and on MHA-GMB. Overall agreement between the two methods for fluconazole was 91.66% and for voriconazole was 93.33% and thus CHROMagar is found to help in simultaneous identification of Candida species as well as in antifungal susceptibility testing.
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