Abstract
Five Candida albicans colonies from each infection in AIDS patients receiving fluconazole therapy for oropharyngeal candidiasis over a 2-year period were evaluated by antifungal susceptibility testing and DNA subtyping, and the results were correlated with clinical response to determine the occurrence of clinically significant selection of more-resistant C. albicans over multiple infections. A total of 534 C. albicans isolates were obtained from 38 patients who exhibited 84 episodes of infection. Antifungal susceptibility testing revealed that the MICs for 93% of the isolates were ≤8.0 μg/ml and the MICs for 7% of the isolates were ≤64 μg/ml. DNA subtyping revealed 70 different subtypes, with 78% of patients with one infection exhibiting one DNA subtype and 80% of patients with inure than one infection exhibiting multiple DNA subtypes. Also, patients who had multiple infections had lower CD4 counts than those with single infections. Differences between the single-infection group and the multiple-infection group regarding the number of DNA subtypes and CD4 counts were both statistically significant. Of the 74 evaluable infections all were successfully treated with regular-dose (100-mg/day) fluconazole, except for three patients who ultimately responded to higher-dose fluconazole. Only one patient may have shown clinically significant selection of a more-resistant C. albicans strain over multiple courses of treatment. Interestingly, MICs reached only 8.0 μg/ml, even though doses of 400 mg of fluconazole were necessary for clinical cure.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1761-1765 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Journal of clinical microbiology |
Volume | 35 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 1997 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Microbiology (medical)