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. 2021 Oct 18;65(11):e01093-21. doi: 10.1128/AAC.01093-21

TABLE 6.

Method-dependent Etest ECOFFinder ECVs of caspofungin for four species of Aspergillus

Agent and
speciesa
No. of isolates
tested
No. of labs with
acceptable data
MIC (μg/ml)
ECV (μg/ml),b
95%/97.5%
Observed
range
Wild-type
mode
A. fumigatus 3,212 14 0.008–>32 0.06 0.25/0.25
A. terreus 267 6 0.008–32 0.5 2/2
A. flavus 232 6 0.008–2 0.06 0.25/0.5
A. niger c 181 4 0.016–0.5 0.06 0.25/0.25
a

Including the complexes of the four species tested.

b

ECVs for 95%/97.5% of the statistically modeled population by ECOFFinder calculations and based on MICs by the commercial bioMérieux Etest method (13).

c

Tentative value; data are from only 3 to 4 laboratories.