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SUBMITTER: Bizerra FC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4023795 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bizerra Fernando César FC Jimenez-Ortigosa Cristina C Souza Ana Carolina R AC Breda Giovanni Luis GL Queiroz-Telles Flávio F Perlin David S DS Colombo Arnaldo L AL
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20140127 4
We identified a case of breakthrough candidemia in a 25-year-old patient receiving micafungin prophylaxis (50 mg/day). Five Candida glabrata isolates were obtained from blood cultures and were classified as multidrug-resistant isolates, since all of them exhibited high MICs for echinocandin and azole drugs. A mutation (S663F) in hot spot 1 of the FKS2 gene was found in all five isolates. This mutation yielded a 1,3-β-D-glucan synthase enzyme with highly reduced sensitivities to echinocandin drug ...[more]