| Literature DB >> 29581115 |
Tatsuro Hirayama1,2, Taiga Miyazaki3,4, Yuka Yamagishi5, Hiroshige Mikamo5, Takashi Ueda6, Kazuhiko Nakajima6, Yoshio Takesue6, Yoshitsugu Higashi7, Yoshihiro Yamamoto7, Muneyoshi Kimura8, Hideki Araoka8, Shuichi Taniguchi9, Yuichi Fukuda10, Yumi Matsuo11, Akiko Furutani12, Kohei Yamashita1, Takahiro Takazono2,4, Tomomi Saijo2, Shintaro Shimamura2, Kazuko Yamamoto2, Yoshifumi Imamura2, Koichi Izumikawa4, Katsunori Yanagihara13, Shigeru Kohno2, Hiroshi Mukae1,2.
Abstract
A total of 46 clinical isolates of Candida guilliermondii and Candida famata were reidentified genetically, resulting in 27 C. guilliermondii and 12 Candida fermentati strains. The majority of C. guilliermondii strains, but not C. fermentati strains, were isolated from blood cultures. C. fermentati was more sensitive to antifungals, hydrogen peroxide, and killing by murine macrophages than was C. guilliermondii The C. guilliermondii isolates were echinocandin susceptible in vitro but resistant to micafungin in a murine model of invasive candidiasis.Entities:
Keywords: Candida fermentati; Candida guilliermondii; antifungal resistance; echinocandin
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Year: 2018 PMID: 29581115 PMCID: PMC5971574 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.02528-17
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antimicrob Agents Chemother ISSN: 0066-4804 Impact factor: 5.191