In vitro antifungal susceptibility of Candida glabrata to caspofungin and the presence of FKS mutations correlate with treatment response in an immunocompromised murine model of invasive infection.

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Published in Antimicrob Agents Chemother on April 14, 2014

Authors

Fabiola Fernández-Silva1, Michaela Lackner2, Javier Capilla3, Emilio Mayayo1, Deanna Sutton4, Mariana Castanheira5, Annette W Fothergill4, Cornelia Lass-Flörl2, Josep Guarro6

Author Affiliations

1: Unitat d'Anatomia Patològica, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, IISPV, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain.
2: Division of Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria.
3: Unitat de Microbiologia, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, IISPV, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain.
4: Fungus Testing Laboratory, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
5: JMI Laboratories, North Liberty, Iowa, USA.
6: Unitat de Microbiologia, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, IISPV, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain josep.guarro@urv.cat.

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