Correlation of MIC with outcome for Candida species tested against voriconazole: analysis and proposal for interpretive breakpoints.

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Published in J Clin Microbiol on March 01, 2006

Authors

M A Pfaller1, D J Diekema, J H Rex, A Espinel-Ingroff, E M Johnson, D Andes, V Chaturvedi, M A Ghannoum, F C Odds, M G Rinaldi, D J Sheehan, P Troke, T J Walsh, D W Warnock

Author Affiliations

1: Medical Microbiology Division, C606 GH, Department of Pathology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA. michael-pfaller@uiowa.edu

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