| Literature DB >> 21490186 |
Marie Desnos-Ollivier1, Olivier Moquet, Taieb Chouaki, Anne-Marie Guérin, Françoise Dromer.
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Clavispora lusitaniae is an opportunistic human pathogen responsible for 0.6 to 2% of candidemia. This species is intrinsically susceptible to echinocandins. Nevertheless, in this study, development of echinocandin resistance in C. lusitaniae isolates was observed during caspofungin treatment. This resistance resulted from missense mutation in the echinocandin target Fks1 gene.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21490186 PMCID: PMC3122731 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00325-11
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948