<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Swinne,D.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Raes-Wuytack,C.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Van Looveren,K.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Desmet,P.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Comparative evaluation of Fungitest-, Neo-Sensitabs- and M27T-NCCLS broth microdilution methods for antifungal drug susceptibility testing of Candida species and Cryptococcus neoformans36689</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mycoses</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">0</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">a</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Agent</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Agents</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Agreement</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Amphotericin B</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">an</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Antifungal Agents</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Antwerp</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">article</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">AS</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Belgium</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Candida</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Case</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Comparative Study</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cryptococcus</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">DRUG</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">drug effects</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">drugs</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">EVALUATION</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fluconazole</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Flucytosine</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Humans</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">im</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Institute</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">IS</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">IT</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Itraconazole</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">journal</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ketoconazole</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Medicine</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">method</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">methods</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Miconazole</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Microbial Sensitivity Tests</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">microbiology</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">pharmacology</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Print</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Reagent Kits,Diagnostic</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">result</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">results</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">SB - 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Six different antifungal drugs were tested: amphotericin B, 5-fluorocytosine, fluconazole, itraconazole, ketoconazole and miconazole. The overall agreement between the Fungitest and the reference methods was much better than between the Neo-Sensitabs and the reference methods: the agreement for the Fungitest ranged from 100% for amphotericin B to 76.7% for itraconazole whereas for the Neo-Sensitabs, it ranged from 90.4% for amphotericin B to 36% for ketoconazole. For the total number of tests performed with Neo-Sensitabs, there were 37.8% of discrepancies with the reference method whereas for the tests performed with Fungitest, there was only 16.5% of discrepancies. Major discrepancies, defined as results that classified an isolate as susceptible by one method and resistant by another, occurred in 21 cases for the Neo-Sensitabs test and only in four cases with the Fungitest, namely 0.6% of the cases. We conclude that the Fungitest method constitutes a simple and reliable procedure for antifungal drug susceptibility testing</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">4</style></issue><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">36689</style></custom1><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">231</style></section></record></records></xml>