Antifungal Susceptibility

Clinical isolate fungi are mostly Candida; only amphotericin B acts on all

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, December 9th, 2003

Fungal isolates from hospital patients are predominantly Candida; most are susceptibility to amphotericin B, but fewer are to other agents.

"The aim of this study was to analyze the type and antibiotic susceptibility of fungi isolated from clinical specimens obtained from patients hospitalized in the Dept of General Transplantation and Liver Surgery of the Medical University of Warsaw between 2000-2002," scientists in Poland report.

"From 326 clinical samples found to be positive on mycological culture, 356 strains were cultured. The most common isolates were yeast-like fungi of the genus Candida at 334 (93.8%), while others included 33...

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