Data mining validation of fluconazole breakpoints established by the European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2949-2954

  Cuesta, Isabel ^a   Bielza, Concha ^b   Larrañaga, Pedro ^b   Cuenca Estrella, Manuel ^a   Laguna, Fernando ^c   Rodriguez Pardo, Dolors ^d   Almirante, Benito ^d   Pahissa, Albert ^d   Rodríguez Tudela, Juan L ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUCONAZOLE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA; CANDIDEMIA; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; DATA MINING; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; MACHINE LEARNING; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; OROPHARYNX CANDIDIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TARGET VARIABLE;

ALGORITHMS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FLUCONAZOLE; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS;

EID: 67649922914     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00081-09     Document Type: Article

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