Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Clonal Population of Flucytosine-Resistant Candida tropicalis from Blood Cultures, Paris, France

Marie Desnos-Ollivier*, Stéphane Bretagne*†, Claire Bernède*‡, Vincent Robert§, Dorothée Raoux*, Elisabeth Chachaty¶, Elisabeth Forget#, Claire Lacroix**, Françoise Dromer*

, and the YEASTS group

Author affiliations: *Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; †Hôpital Henri Mondor–Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Créteil, France; ‡Institut Pasteur Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité 657, Paris, France; §Centraal Bureau voor Schimmelcultures, Utrecht, the Netherlands; ¶Institut Gustave-Roussy, Villejuif, France; #Hôpital Beaujon, Clichy, France; **Hôpital Saint Louis, Paris, France;

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Distribution of 130 Candida tropicalis isolates recovered from blood cultures during the first 4 years of an active surveillance program (YEASTS study) on yeasts fungemia in the Paris area, France (October 2002 through September 2006), according to the MICs of flucytosine determined with the EUCAST microdilution method (4).

Figure. Distribution of 130 Candida tropicalis isolates recovered from blood cultures during the first 4 years of an active surveillance program (YEASTS study) on yeasts fungemia in the Paris area, France (October 2002 through September 2006), according to the MICs of flucytosine determined with the EUCAST microdilution method (4).

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¹The YEASTS group is composed of (in alphabetical order by city): Claire Bouges-Michel (Hôpital Avicenne, Bobigny), Isabelle Poilane (Hôpital Jean Verdier, Bondy), Marie-Elisabeth Bougnoux, Jean Dunand (Hôpital Ambroise Paré, Boulogne), Guy Galeazzi (Hôpital Louis Mourier, Colombes), Stéphane Bretagne, Françoise Botterel (Hôpital Henri Mondor, Créteil), Nathalie Fauchet (Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Créteil, Créteil), Elisabeth Forget (Hôpital Beaujon, Clichy), Françoise Botterel, Christine Bonnal (Hôpital du Kremlin Bicêtre), Odile Eloy (Hôpital Mignot, Le Chesnay), Christine Lawrence (Hôpital Raymond Poincaré, Garches), Marie-Françoise David, Liliana Mihaila (Hôpital Paul Brousse, Villejuif), Elisabeth Chachaty, Olivier Adam (Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif), and in Paris: Christian Chochillon (Hôpital Bichat), André Paugam, Marie-Thérèse Baixench (Hôpital Cochin), Muriel Cornet (Hôpital de l’Hôtel Dieu), Marie-Christine Escande (Institut Curie), Svetlana Challier, Marie-Elisabeth Bougnoux (Hôpital Necker), Eric Dannaoui (Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou), Annick Datry, Houria Laklache, Bader Lmimouni, Sophie Brun (Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpétrière), Jean-Louis Poirot (Hôpital Saint Antoine), Claire Lacroix (Hôpital Saint Louis), Didier Moissenet (Hôpital Trousseau), Michel Develoux (Hôpital Tenon), and Stéphane Bonacorsi (Hôpital Robert Debré).

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