Volume 18, Number 1—January 2012

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Candida spp. with Acquired Echinocandin Resistance, France, 2004–2010¹

Eric Dannaoui², Marie Desnos-Ollivier², Dea Garcia-Hermoso, Fredéric Grenouillet, Sophie Cassaing, Marie-Thérèse Baixench, Stéphane Bretagne, Françoise Dromer, Olivier Lortholary , and the French Mycoses Study Group

Author affiliations: Institut Pasteur, Paris, France (E. Dannaoui, M. Desnos-Ollivier, D. Garcia-Hermoso, S. Bretagne, F. Dromer, O. Lortholary); Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besançon, Besançon France (F. Grenouillet); Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse–Hôpital Rangueil, Toulouse, France (S. Cassaing); Hôpital Cochin, Paris (M.-T. Baixench)

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Figure. Corresponding caspofungin (A), micafungin (B), and anidulafungin (C) MICs in 12 Fksp mutant Candida spp. isolates and their wild-type parent isolates, France, 2004–2010. Susceptibility testing was performed by using the European Committee for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing method (6) and AM3 medium (7).

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¹This work was presented in part at the 20th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Vienna, Austria, April 10–13, 2010 (abstract no. O346).

²These authors contributed equally to this article.

³Additional members of the French Mycoses Study Group who contributed data are listed at the end of this article.

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