Fluconazole treatment of Candida albicans infection in mice: does in vitro susceptibility predict in vivo response?
- 1 October 1995
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
- Vol. 39 (10) , 2197-2200
- https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.39.10.2197
Abstract
A series of fluconazole-susceptible and-fluconazole resistant Candida albicans fungal isolates were used to infect mice intravenously. Mice were treated with varying doses of fluconazole beginning one day after infection. For all of the 6 fluconazole-susceptible isolates, fluconazole was highly effective at or = 40 mg/kg twice daily in 4 fluconazole-resistant isolates. Although the correlation is not precise, in vitro susceptibility testing of C. albicans can predict in vivo response to fluconazole.Keywords
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