Article
Fluconazole-resistant recurrent oral candidiasis in human immunodeficiency virus-positive patients: persistence of Candida albicans strains with the same genotype.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Apr 1994
Millon L, Manteaux A, Reboux G, Drobacheff C, Monod M, Barale T, Michel-Briand Y
Abstract excerpt
Thirty human immunodeficiency virus-positive patients carrying Candida albicans in their oropharynx were treated with fluconazole and were monitored for 90 to 570 days. Fluconazole-resistant C. albicans (MIC, > 32 micrograms/ml) appeared only in seven patients and only after 90 days of treatment...
Topics
- AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections
- Candida albicans
- Candidiasis, Oral
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Fluconazole
- Genotype
- Humans
- Recurrence
- Time Factors