TABLE 3.
In vitro activities of antifungal agents against selected melanized fungia
| Species | Activityb |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AmB | Itra | Vori | Posa | Isavu | Ravu | Keto | Terb | 5-FC | Casp | Mica | Anid | |
| Alternaria spp. | + | ++ | + | ++ | + | + | − | + | + | |||
| Aureobasidium pullulans | + | ++ | ++ | |||||||||
| Bipolaris spp. | + | ++ | ++ | ++ | + | + | + | + | + | |||
| Chaetomium spp. | + | ++ | ++ | ++ | + | − | ||||||
| Cladosporium spp. | + | ++ | ++ | ++ | + | + | ||||||
| Cladophialophora bantiana | ++ | ++ | ++ | ++ | + | + | + | + | ++ | + | ||
| Curvularia spp. | + | ++ | ++ | ++ | + | + | + | + | ||||
| Exophiala spp. | + | ++ | ++ | ++ | + | + | + | + | + | + | ||
| Exophiala dermatitidis | ++ | ++ | ++ | ++ | + | + | + | + | + | + | ||
| Exserohilum spp. | ++ | ++ | ++ | + | + | |||||||
| Fonsecaea pedrosoi | ++ | ++ | ++ | + | ++ | ++ | + | + | + | + | ||
| Lasiodiplodia theobromae | + | |||||||||||
| Madurella mycetomatis | + | ++ | ++ | ++ | + | − | + | |||||
| Ochroconis gallopava | + | ++ | + | |||||||||
| Phialemonium spp. | + | + | + | |||||||||
| Phialophora spp. | + | ++ | ++ | + | + | + | + | + | ||||
| Rhinocladiella spp. | + | ++ | ++ | + | + | |||||||
| Rhinocladiella mackenziei | + | + | + | + | + | + | − | − | ||||
| Scedosporium/Pseudallescheria spp. | − | + | ++ | + | ||||||||
| Scedosporium prolificans | − | − | − | − | − | − | − | − | ||||
| Scopulariopsis brumptii | − | − | − | − | ||||||||
| Veronaea botryosa | + | + | ||||||||||
| Wallemia sebi | + | + | + | + | + | − | + | |||||
Adapted from reference 625 with permission of Expert Reviews Ltd.
Abbreviations: AmB, amphotericin B; 5-FC, flucytosine; Keto, ketoconazole; Itra, itraconazole; Vori, voriconazole; Posa, posaconazole; Ravu, ravuconazole; Casp, caspofungin; Mica, micafungin; Anid, anidulafungin; Terb, terbinafine; Isavu, isavuconazole. ++, good activity suggested based on consistently low MICs and testing against at least five isolates of a particular genus or species; +, potential/marginal activity suggested based on inconsistent MICs or very few isolates of a particular genus or species; −, no significant activity suggested based on consistently high MICs. The results do not represent formally defined CLSI breakpoints.