Screening of Antifungal Azole Drugs and Agrochemicals with an Adapted alamarBlue-Based Assay Demonstrates Antibacterial Activity of Croconazole against Mycobacterium ulcerans

An alamarBlue-based growth inhibition assay has been adapted for the thermosensitive and slow-growing pathogen Mycobacterium ulcerans. The standardized test procedure enables medium-throughput screening of preselected compound libraries. Testing of a set of 48 azoles with known antifungal activity led to the identification of an imidazole antifungal displaying an inhibitory dose (ID) of 9 mu M for M. ulcerans.