Caspofungin Etest susceptibility testing of Candida species: risk of misclassification of susceptible isolates of C. glabrata and C. krusei when adopting the revised CLSI caspofungin breakpoints

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2012 Jul;56(7):3965-8. doi: 10.1128/AAC.00355-12. Epub 2012 May 7.

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the performance of caspofungin Etest and the recently revised CLSI breakpoints. A total of 497 blood isolates, of which 496 were wild-type isolates, were included. A total of 65/496 susceptible isolates (13.1%) were misclassified as intermediate (I) or resistant (R). Such misclassifications were most commonly observed for Candida krusei (73.1%) and Candida glabrata (33.1%). The revised breakpoints cannot be safely adopted for these two species.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Antifungal Agents / pharmacology*
  • Candida / classification*
  • Candida / drug effects*
  • Candida glabrata / drug effects
  • Candidiasis / microbiology
  • Caspofungin
  • Drug Resistance, Fungal
  • Echinocandins / pharmacology*
  • Lipopeptides
  • Microbial Sensitivity Tests

Substances

  • Antifungal Agents
  • Echinocandins
  • Lipopeptides
  • Caspofungin