Interactions of Yeasts, Moulds, and Antifungal Agents : How to Detect Resistance

The incidence of fungal infections increases with the increase in antibiotic usage and increasing immunosuppressed populations. There is no longer only one antifungal agent and the response of fungi to various agents is not always predictable. The need for standardized antifungal susceptibility testing, and standardized interpretation of results in conjunction with studies that describe clinical outcomes based on those tools is ever important. __Interactions of Yeasts, Moulds, and Antifungal Agents: How to Detect Resistance__ covers the available antifungal agents, how to perform in vitro testing and how those results should be interpreted for the most common fungal pathogens. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Antifungal Agents....Pages 1-64 Antifungal Susceptibility Testing: Clinical Laboratory and Standards Institute (CLSI) Methods....Pages 65-74 Antifungal Susceptibility Testing Methods: Non-CLSI Methods for Yeast and Moulds....Pages 75-87 Susceptibility Testing of Dermatophytes....Pages 89-95 Usual Susceptibility Patterns of Common Yeasts....Pages 97-107 Usual Susceptibility Patterns of Common Moulds and Systemic Fungi....Pages 109-124 Usual Susceptibility Patterns for Systemic Dimorphic Fungi....Pages 125-129 Utility of Antifungal Susceptibility Testing and Clinical Correlations....Pages 131-158 Back Matter....Pages 161-168