Pan-azole-resistantCandida tropicaliscarrying homozygouserg11mutations at position K143R: a new emerging superbug?
Author(s) -
Mariana Ingrid Dutra da Silva Xisto,
Rita Caramalho,
Débora Afonso Silva Rocha,
Antônio FerreiraPereira,
Bettina Sartori,
Eliana BarretoBergter,
Maria Luiza Junqueira,
Cornelia LassFlörl,
Michaela Lackner
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124
H-Index - 194
eISSN - 1460-2091
pISSN - 0305-7453
DOI - 10.1093/jac/dkw558
Subject(s) - candida tropicalis , azole , candida glabrata , candida parapsilosis , microbiology and biotechnology , echinocandin , biology , candida albicans , corpus albicans , drug resistance , fluconazole , antifungal
Candidaemia is a public health problem mainly in hospitalized individuals worldwide. In Brazil, Candida albicans is the most prevalent species that causes candidaemia, followed by Candida tropicalis and Candida parapsilosis . Few data on the abundance of antifungal resistance are available for Latin America.
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