| Literature DB >> 29530844 |
Mahdi Abastabar1, Abdullah M S Al-Hatmi2,3,4, Mohammad Vafaei Moghaddam5, G Sybren de Hoog2,3, Iman Haghani1, Seyed Reza Aghili1, Tahereh Shokohi1, Mohammad Taghi Hedayati1, Roshanak Daie Ghazvini6, Reza Kachuei7, Ali Rezaei-Matehkolaei8, Koichi Makimura9,10, Jacques F Meis3,11, Hamid Badali12,13.
Abstract
A collection of clinical (n = 47) and environmental (n = 79) Fusarium isolates were tested against 10 antifungal drugs, including 2 novel imidazoles. Luliconazole and lanoconazole demonstrated very low geometric mean MIC values of 0.005 and 0.013 μg/ml, respectively, compared with 0.51 μg/ml for micafungin, 0.85 μg/ml for efinaconazole, 1.12 μg/ml for natamycin, 1.18 μg/ml for anidulafungin, 1.31 μg/ml for voriconazole, 1.35 μg/ml for caspofungin, 1.9 μg/ml for amphotericin B, and 4.08 μg/ml for itraconazole. Results show that these drugs are potential candidates for (topical) treatment of skin and nail infections due to Fusarium species.Entities:
Keywords: Fusarium species; intrinsic resistance; lanoconazole; luliconazole
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Year: 2018 PMID: 29530844 PMCID: PMC5923147 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00009-18
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antimicrob Agents Chemother ISSN: 0066-4804 Impact factor: 5.191