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Breakthrough candidemia due to multidrug-resistant Candida glabrata during prophylaxis with a low dose of micafungin.


ABSTRACT: 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-?-D-glucan synthase enzyme with highly reduced sensitivities to echinocandin drugs.

SUBMITTER: Bizerra FC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4023795 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Breakthrough candidemia due to multidrug-resistant Candida glabrata during prophylaxis with a low dose of micafungin.

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]

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