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Stepwise development of a homozygous S80P substitution in Fks1p, conferring echinocandin resistance in Candida tropicalis.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Jan 2013
Jensen Rasmus Hare, Johansen Helle Krogh, Arendrup Maiken Cavling
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Three Candida tropicalis isolates were obtained from a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The first isolate was susceptible to all drug classes, while isolates 2 and 3, obtained after 8 and 8.5 weeks of caspofungin treatment, respectively, were resistant to the three echinocandins. Multilocus sequence genotyping suggested a clonal relation among all isolates. FKS1 sequencing revealed a stepwise...
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