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. 2009 Nov 2;54(1):426–439. doi: 10.1128/AAC.01256-09

TABLE 2.

MICs obtained using the EUCAST EDef 7.1 (RPMI-2G and 50% inhibition)a

Drug and species MIC (μg/ml)
NG Total Distance Overlap WT-UL (S ≤ X) VMEs MEs
≤0.008 0.015 0.032 0.064 0.125 0.25 0.5 1 2 4 8 >8
Anidulafungin
    C. albicans (R) 2 2 2 2 2 10
    C. albicans (S) 10 10 3 0.015
    C. dubliniensis (R) 1 1
    C. dubliniensis (S) 1 1 6 0.015
    C. glabrata (R) 2 3 1 2 2 1 11
    C. glabrata (S) 1 4 4 9 2 0.064
    C. krusei (R) 1 1 1 3 1/3 1/3
    C. krusei (S) 12 1 13 −1 0.125
    C. parapsilosis (S) 5 7 5 1 1 19 4 1/19
    C. tropicalis (R) 1 1 2 4
    C. tropicalis (S) 2 10 2 1 15 1 0.064
Caspofungin
    C. albicans (R) 6 4 10 6/10
    C. albicans (S) 1 9 10 2 2
    C. dubliniensis (R) 1 1
    C. dubliniensis (S) 1 1 3 2
    C. glabrata (R) 1 5 2 2 1 11 6/10
    C. glabrata (S) 9 9 1 2
    C. krusei (R) 1 1 1 3 1/3
    C. krusei (S) 13 13 1 4
    C. parapsilosis (S) 2 14 3 19 8
    C. tropicalis (R) 1 3 4 1/4
    C. tropicalis (S) 11 4 15 1 2
Micafungin
    C. albicans (R) 1 1 2 5 1 10 1/10
    C. albicans (S) 4 6 10 2 0.064
    C. dubliniensis (R) 1 1
    C. dubliniensis (S) 1 1 5 0.125
    C. glabrata (R) 1 2 5 2 1 11 1/10 8/10
    C. glabrata (S) 4 5 9 −1 0.125
    C. krusei (R) 1 1 1 3
    C. krusei (S) 12 1 13 2 0.5
    C. parapsilosis (S) 5 10 4 19 4
    C. tropicalis (R) 1 1 2 4 1/4
    C. tropicalis (S) 12 3 15 1 0.125
a

NG, no growth; distance, number of twofold steps between wild-type (S) and fks hot spot mutant (R) populations; overlap, number of fks R isolates overlapping with the S population/total number of isolates in the group; WT-UL, wild type cut off (for calculation, see Materials and Methods); VMEs, R isolates misclassified as susceptible using the WT-UL as the breakpoint for susceptibility; MEs, S isolates misclassified as resistant. Only isolates with mutations in the hot spot regions were regarded as resistant isolates.