Multicentre Etest evaluation of in vitro activity of conventional antifungal drugs against European bovine mastitis Prototheca spp. isolates

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1945-1947

  Jagielski, Tomasz ^a   Buzzini, Pietro ^b   Lassa, Henryka ^c   Malinowski, Edward ^c   Branda, Eva ^b   Turchetti, Benedetta ^b   Polleichtner, Angela ^d   Roesler, Uwe ^d   Lagneau, Paul Emile ^e   Marques, Sara ^f   Silva, Eliane ^f   Thompson, Gertrude ^f   Stachowiak, Radosław ^a   Bielecki, Jacek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL VETERINARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e Regional Association for Health and Animal Identification   (Belgium)

^f CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Amphotericin B; Azoles; Drug resistance; Genotypes; Yeast like algae

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANIDULAFUNGIN; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CASPOFUNGIN; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; ITRACONAZOLE; KETOCONAZOLE; MICAFUNGIN; POSACONAZOLE; PYRROLE; VORICONAZOLE;

ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; BOVINE MASTITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPSILOMETER TEST; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENOTYPE; IN VITRO STUDY; MILK; NONHUMAN; PROTOTHECA;

ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CATTLE; FEMALE; MASTITIS, BOVINE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PROTOTHECA;

EID: 84864496358     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dks134     Document Type: Article

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