Jensen Rasmus Hare, Justesen Ulrik Stenz, Rewes Annika, Perlin David S, Arendrup Maiken Cavling
Mycology Unit, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Department of Clinical Microbiology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2014 Jun;58(6):3550-2. doi: 10.1128/AAC.02367-14. Epub 2014 Mar 31.
Echinocandins are the preferred therapy for invasive infections due to Candida krusei. We present here a case of clinical failure involving C. krusei with a characteristic FKS1 hot spot mutation not previously reported in C. krusei that was isolated after 14 days of treatment. Anidulafungin MICs were elevated by ≥ 5 dilution steps above the clinical breakpoint but by only 1 step for a Candida albicans isolate harboring the corresponding mutation, suggesting a notable species-specific difference in the MIC increase conferred by this mutation.
棘白菌素是治疗克鲁斯假丝酵母菌侵袭性感染的首选疗法。我们在此报告一例涉及克鲁斯假丝酵母菌的临床治疗失败病例,该菌具有一个特征性的FKS1热点突变,此前在克鲁斯假丝酵母菌中未见报道,此菌是在治疗14天后分离得到的。阿尼芬净的最低抑菌浓度(MIC)比临床断点升高了≥5个稀释梯度,但对于携带相应突变的白色假丝酵母菌分离株,MIC仅升高了1个梯度,这表明该突变导致的MIC升高存在显著的种属特异性差异。