Commercial methods for antifungal susceptibility testing of yeasts: strengths and limitations as predictors of resistance

A Espinel-Ingroff - Journal of Fungi, 2022 - mdpi.com
Susceptibility testing can yield variable results because it is method (commercial or
reference), agent, and species dependent. Therefore, in order for results to be clinically …

Hospital clonal outbreak of fluconazole-resistant Candida parapsilosis harboring the Y132F ERG11p substitution in a French intensive care unit

S Presente, C Bonnal, AC Normand… - Antimicrobial Agents …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
We report the first identification of a fluconazole-resistant Candida parapsilosis (FR-Cp)
strain in our hospital, which subsequently caused an outbreak involving 17 patients (12 …

Commercial Methods for Antifungal Susceptibility Testing of Saprophytic Molds: Can They Be Used to Detect Resistance?

P Paranos, A Espinel-Ingroff, J Meletiadis - Journal of Fungi, 2024 - mdpi.com
Commercial tests are often employed in clinical microbiology laboratories for antifungal
susceptibility testing of filamentous fungi. Method-dependent epidemiological cutoff values …

Alarming Increase of Azole-Resistant Candida Causing Blood Stream Infections in Oncology Patients in Egypt

HA El-Mahallawy, NE Abdelfattah, MA Wassef… - Current …, 2023 - Springer
Candidemia is a life-threatening invasive fungal infection in immunocompromised patients.
The widespread use of azoles and the shift toward non-albicans Candida (NAC) species …

Epidemiological cutoff values and genetic antimicrobial resistance of Lactococcus garvieae and L. petauri

RÇ Öztürk, D Ustaoglu, M Ture, F Bondavalli, S Colussi… - Aquaculture, 2024 - Elsevier
Lactococcus garvieae and L. petauri are etiological agents of lactococcosis, which cause
significant losses in trout aquaculture at elevated water temperatures. Optimizing …

A Satellite dsRNA Attenuates the Induction of Helper Virus-Mediated Symptoms in Aspergillus flavus

Y Jiang, B Yang, X Liu, X Tian, Q Wang… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Aspergillus flavus is an important fungal pathogen of animals and plants. Previously, we
reported a novel partitivirus, Aspergillus flavus partitivirus 1 (AfPV1), infecting A. flavus. In …

[HTML][HTML] Multiple colony antifungal susceptibility testing detects polyresistance in clinical Candida cultures: a European Confederation of Medical Mycology excellence …

MA Knoll, N Lackner, H Ulmer, E Samardzic… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Objectives Many factors influence the outcome of in vitro antifungal susceptibility testing
(AFST), including endpoint definition, inoculum sizes, time and temperature of incubation …

Acquired fluconazole resistance and genetic clustering in Diutina (Candida) catenulata from clinical samples

C Nourrisson, M Moniot, RA Lavergne, E Robert… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Objectives Diutina (Candida) catenulata is an ascomycetous yeast isolated from
environmental sources and animals, occasionally infecting humans. The aim of this study is …

Evaluation of the sensititre YeastOne and Etest in comparison with CLSI M38-A2 for antifungal susceptibility testing of three azoles, Amphotericin B, Caspofungin, and …

MSC Melhem, VC Coelho, CA Fonseca, L Oliveira… - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Aspergillosis is an invasive fungal disease associated with high mortality. Antifungal
susceptibility testing (AFST) is receiving increasing consideration for managing patients, as …

Pan‐azole‐resistant Meyerozyma guilliermondii clonal isolates harbouring a double F126L and L505F mutation in Erg11

J Moreau, T Noël, K Point, F Tewes, L Deroche… - Mycoses, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Meyerozyma guilliermondii is a yeast species responsible for invasive fungal
infections. It has high minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) to echinocandins, the first …