TABLE 2.

Agreement between Etest and reference fluconazole MICs for 402 clinical yeast isolates

Organism	No. of isolates tested	% Agreement when tested ona:
		RPG	Casitone agar	Mueller-Hinton agar
C. albicans	161	90	95	50
C. glabrata	41	100	95	28
C. tropicalis	35	91	100	47
C. parapsilosis	29	100	100	17
C. krusei	32	100	97	90
C. lusitaniae	31	97	100	45
Candida species	19	89	100	53
Cryptococcus neoformans	40	97	93	87
Miscellaneous species	14	100	100	85
All	402	94	97	53

^aPercentage of Etest MICs (read at 48 h), determined with three different agar media, that are within ±2 log₂ dilutions of the reference microdilution MICs (RPMI broth, 48 h).