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| Provedor de dados: |
BJM
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| País: |
Brazil
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| Título: |
Antifungal susceptibility of clinical and environmental Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii isolates in Jabalpur, a city of Madhya Pradesh in Central India
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| Autores: |
Gutch,Ruchi Sethi
Nawange,Shesh Rao
Singh,Shankar Mohan
Yadu,Ruchika
Tiwari,Aditi
Gumasta,Richa
Kavishwar,Arvind
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| Data: |
2015-12-01
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| Ano: |
2015
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| Palavras-chave: |
Cryptococcus neoformans
Cryptococcus gattii
Minimum inhibitory concentration
Azoles
Central India
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| Resumo: |
In this study, we present antifungal susceptibility data of clinical and environmental isolates of Central Indian Cryptococcus neoformans (Serotype A, n = 8 and n = 50 respectively) and Cryptococcus gattii (Serotype B, n = 01 and n = 04 respectively). Susceptibilities to fluconazole, itraconazole and ketoconazole were determined by using NCCLS broth micro-dilution methodology. The total number of resistant strains for fluconazole in case of C. neoformans and C. gattii showed a significant difference by using chi-square test (p < 0.05*), while considering fisher's exact p value was nonsignificant (p > 0.05). However, the total number of resistant strains for itraconazole and ketoconazole was not found statistically significant. A comparison of geometric means of clinical and environmental strains of C. gattii and C. neoformans was not found statistically significant using student ‘t’ test (p value > 0.05 NS). Though less, the antifungal data obtained in this study suggests that primary resistance among environmental and clinical isolates of C. neoformans and C. gattii against tested antifungal was present and C. gattii comparatively was less susceptible than C. neoformans var. grubii isolates to fluconazole than to itraconazole and ketoconazole. A continuous surveillance of antifungal susceptibility of clinical and environmental isolates of C. neoformans and C. gattii is desirable to monitor the emergence of any resistant strains for better management of cryptococcosis patients.
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| Tipo: |
Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822015000401125
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| Editor: |
Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia
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| Relação: |
10.1590/S1517-838246420140564
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| Formato: |
text/html
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| Fonte: |
Brazilian Journal of Microbiology v.46 n.4 2015
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| Direitos: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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