No Increase in Frequency of Antifungal Resistance among Yeasts Isolated from Normally Sterile Sites in Patients at Foothills Hospital from 1993 to 1996
Author(s) -
A.P. Gibb,
Cheryl Thorson,
Harry van den Elzen
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
canadian journal of infectious diseases and medical microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1918-1493
pISSN - 1712-9532
DOI - 10.1155/1999/103548
Subject(s) - broth microdilution , fluconazole , itraconazole , minimum inhibitory concentration , candida albicans , population , medicine , corpus albicans , antifungal , microbiology and biotechnology , veterinary medicine , amphotericin b , drug resistance , biology , antibiotics , environmental health
To determine the prevalence of resistance to antifungal drugs among yeasts isolated from sterile sites from patients in one hospital and the relationship of resistance to antifungal use, and to assess whether resistance was increasing.
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