Open AccessIdentification and Antifungal susceptibility testing of Candida species: A Comparison of Vitek-2 system with conventional and molecular methods
Author(s) -
Ravinder Kaur,
Megh Singh Dhakad,
Ritu Goyal,
Absarul Haque,
Gauranga Mukhopadhyay
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of global infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 0974-8245
pISSN - 0974-777X
DOI - 10.4103/0974-777x.192969
Subject(s) - candida tropicalis , candida krusei , candida parapsilosis , fluconazole , candida albicans , microbiology and biotechnology , candida glabrata , amphotericin b , biology , broth microdilution , antifungal , minimum inhibitory concentration , antibiotics
Candida infection is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients; an accurate and early identification is a prerequisite need to be taken as an effective measure for the management of patients. The purpose of this study was to compare the conventional identification of Candida species with identification by Vitek-2 system and the antifungal susceptibility testing (AST) by broth microdilution method with Vitek-2 AST system.