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Antifungal susceptibility testing of Candida in the Clinical Laboratory: how to do it, when to do it, and how to interpret it
Author(s) -
Esther Manso,
Claudio Farina,
Stefano Andreoni,
Elisabetta Blasi,
Marco Conte,
Paolo Fazii,
Giuseppe Lombardi,
Silvana Sanna
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
microbiologia medica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2280-6423
pISSN - 1120-0146
DOI - 10.4081/mm.2014.4888
Subject(s) - fluconazole , etest , broth microdilution , drug resistance , microbiology and biotechnology , echinocandins , biology , candida auris , antifungal , antifungal drug , candida glabrata , medicine , antimicrobial , caspofungin , minimum inhibitory concentration

Significant changes in the management of fungaemia have occurred in the last decade with increased use of fluconazole prophylaxis, of empirical treatment and of echinocandins as first-line agents for documented disease. The emergence of drug resistance in fungal pathogens has a profound impact on human health given limited number of antifungal drugs. Antifungal resistance in Candida may be either intrinsic or acquired and may be encountered in the antifungal drug exposed but also the antifungal drug naïve patient The variation in resistance rates between centers emphasizes that it is essential to have knowledge of the local Candida species distribution and antifungal resistance rates to guide initial therapy for Candida BSI. Moreover, all Candida isolates from blood and normally sterile sites should be identified to the species level. The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute and European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing have developed breakpoints and epidemiological cutoff values that are now established for Candida spp. Clinical microbiology laboratories will be employed commercial susceptibility assays, rather than reference broth microdilution methods and comparative studies are particularly important. Vitek 2®, Etest® and Sensititre YeastOne® provided a high degree of essential agreement and comparable sensitivity and specificity to BMD-RPMI for identifying resistance to azole and echinocandins in Candida spp.

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