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Echinocandin Resistance in Candida Species Isolates from Liver Transplant Recipients.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Feb 2017
Prigent Gwénolé, Aït-Ammar Nawel, Levesque Eric, Fekkar Arnaud, Costa Jean-Marc, El Anbassi Sarra, Foulet Françoise, Duvoux Christophe, Merle Jean-Claude, Dannaoui Eric, Botterel Françoise
Abstract excerpt
Liver transplant recipients are at risk of invasive fungal infections, especially candidiasis. Echinocandin is recommended as prophylactic treatment but is increasingly associated with resistance. Our aim was to assess echinocandin drug resistance in Candida spp. isolated from liver transplant recipients treated with this antifungal class. For this, all liver-transplanted patients in a University Hospital...
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