Antifungal Susceptibility Data and Epidemiological Distribution of Candida spp.: An In Vitro Five-Year Evaluation at University Hospital Policlinico of Catania and a Comprehensive Literature Review.
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Abstract
Background: Invasive fungal infections represent a concerning healthcare issue, with Candida spp. reported as the main aetiological agent. Candida spp. bloodstream infections show high mortality rates, indicating increasing antifungal-resistance episodes as a contributing feature. Despite the global prevalence of C. albicans, non-albicans species emerged as significant in the last decades.
Methods: The present manuscript reports a five-year evaluation on Candida spp. bloodstream isolates and their antifungal susceptibility profiles, aiming to enrich the literature and epidemiological data.
Results: According to the gathered data, antifungal-resistance cases remained uncommon. However, the study revealed rare resistance phenotypes such as a single case of pan-echinocandin resistance C. albicans.
Conclusions: Finally, a comprehensive review of Candida spp. antifungal resistance integrates the data, emphasizing the extreme species-specific variability and the consequent importance of always providing species identification.
Antibiotics-BaselPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics-General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
CiteScore
7.30
自引率
14.60%
发文量
1547
审稿时长
11 weeks
期刊介绍:
Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382) is an open access, peer reviewed journal on all aspects of antibiotics. Antibiotics is a multi-disciplinary journal encompassing the general fields of biochemistry, chemistry, genetics, microbiology and pharmacology. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. Therefore, there is no restriction on the length of papers.