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ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY
Volume 61, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00906-17
Keywords
azoles; echinocandins; resistance
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- Pfizer Inc.
- Astellas Pharma Global Development, Inc.
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The activity of 7 antifungal agents against 3,557 invasive yeasts and molds collected in 29 countries worldwide in 2014 and 2015 was evaluated. Epidemiological cutoff values (ECVs) published in the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) M59 document were applied for species with no clinical breakpoints. Echinocandin susceptibility rates were 95.9% to 100.0% for the 5 most common Candida species, except for the rates for Candida parapsilosis to anidulafungin (88.7% susceptible, 100.00/0 wild type). Rates of fluconazole resistance ranged from 8.0% for Candida glabrata to 0.4% for Candida albicans. Seven Candida species displayed 100.0% wild-type amphotericin B MIC results, and Candida dubliniensis and Candida lusitaniae exhibited wild-type echinocandin MIC results. The highest fluconazole, voriconazole, and posaconazole MIC values for Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubli were 8 mu g/ml, 0.12 mu g/ml, and 0.25 mu g/ml, respectively. Aspergillus fumigatus isolates were 100.0% wild type for caspofungin and amphotericin B, but 3 (0.8%) of these isolates were non-wild type to itraconazole (2 isolates) or voriconazole (1 isolate). Mutations in FKS hot spot (HS) regions were detected among 13/20 Candida isolates displaying echinocandin MICs greater than the ECV (16 of these 20 isolates were C. glabrata). Most isolates carrying mutations in FKS HS regions were resistant to 2 or more echinocandins. Five fluconazole-nonsusceptible C. albicans isolates were submitted to whole-genome sequencing analysis. Gain-of-function, Erg11 heterozygous, and Erg3 homozygous mutations were observed in 1 isolate each. One isolate displayed MDR1 promoter allele alterations associated with azole resistance. Elevated levels of expression of MDR1 or CDR2 were observed in 3 isolates and 1 isolate, respectively. Echinocandin and azole resistance is still uncommon among contemporary fungal isolates; however, mechanisms of resistance to antifungals were observed among Candida spp., showing that resistance can emerge and monitoring is warranted.
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