Quantitation of Candida albicans ergosterol content improves the correlation between in vitro antifungal susceptibility test results and in vivo outcome after fluconazole treatment in a murine model of invasive candidiasis

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2081-2085

  Arthington Skaggs, Beth A ^b   Warnock, David W ^b   Morrison, Christine J ^a,b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERGOSTEROL; FLUCONAZOLE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CELL INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DILUTION; FEMALE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GROWTH INHIBITION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; STEROL SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ERGOSTEROL; FEMALE; FLUCONAZOLE; KIDNEY; MICE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033942827     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.44.8.2081-2085.2000     Document Type: Article

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