Department of Internal Medicine, Wayne State Universitygrid.254444.7, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, Wayne State Universitygrid.254444.7, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2022 Jun 21;66(6):e0236621. doi: 10.1128/aac.02366-21. Epub 2022 May 23.
Antifungal drug susceptibility tests (AST) for Candida albicans are increasingly demanded for women with refractory or recurrent vaginitis due to fluconazole resistance. Given reduced activity of azole drugs at pH levels found in women with vaginitis, it is proposed that AST be performed at pH 4.5, since testing at only the recommended pH 7.0 is likely to miss a significant number of clinically relevant azole-resistant C. albicans vaginal isolates.
由于氟康唑耐药,越来越多患有难治性或复发性阴道炎的女性需要进行白色念珠菌的抗真菌药敏试验(AST)。鉴于唑类药物在阴道炎女性中发现的 pH 值水平下活性降低,建议在 pH 4.5 下进行 AST,因为仅在推荐的 pH 7.0 下进行测试可能会错过大量临床上相关的唑类耐药白色念珠菌阴道分离株。