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Phenotypic and genotypic evaluation of fluconazole resistance in vaginal Candida strains isolated from HIV-infected women from Brazil.
Medical mycology - 1 Nov 2005
Ribeiro Mariceli A, Paula C R, John R, Perfect John R, Cox Gary M
Abstract excerpt
We conducted a study to determine the antifungal susceptibility of vaginal Candida isolates from HIV-infected Brazilian women. Among 127 women enrolled, positive cultures for yeast were obtained from 31 of 38 (81%) women with symptomatic vulvovaginitis, and from 41 of 89 (46%) asymptomatic women. Susceptibility testing demonstrated 11 of the 72 isolates had either resistance or dose-dependent susceptibility to...
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