Interactions of Yeasts, Moulds, and Antifungal Agents

How to Detect Resistance
2012
ISBN: 978-1-62703-915-4
Verlag: Humana Press

Buch, Englisch, 170 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 289 g

The incidence of fungal infections increases with the increase in antibiotic usage and increasing immunosuppressed populations. There is no longer only one antifungal agent  and the response of fungi to various agents is not always predictable. The need for standardized antifungal susceptibility testing, and standardized interpretation of results in conjunction with studies that describe clinical outcomes based on those tools is ever important. Interactions of Yeasts, Moulds, and Antifungal Agents: How to Detect Resistance covers the available antifungal agents, how to perform in vitro testing and  how those results should be interpreted for the most common fungal pathogens.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hall, Gerri S.

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Technologie der land- und forstwirtschaftlichen Chemikalien
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Medizinische Mikrobiologie & Virologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Mikrobiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Antifungal Agents.- Antifungal Susceptibility Testing: Clinical Laboratory and Standards Institute (CLSI) Methods.- Antifungal Susceptibility Testing Methods – Non CLSI Methods for Yeast and Moulds.- Susceptibility Testing of Dermatophytes.- Usual Susceptibility Patterns of Common Yeasts.- Usual Susceptibility Patterns of Common of Moulds and Systemic Fungi.- Usual Susceptibility Patterns for Systemic Dimorphic Fungi.- Utility of Antifungal Susceptibility Testing and Clinical Correlations.

Über Autor(innen)

Gerri S. Hall, Ph.D. - The  professional career has been focused on clinical microbiology: direct clinical activities of various areas such as: Bacteriology, Mycobacteria, STD testing and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of bacteria and fungi.  Dr. Hall’s laboratory performs clinically relevant patient care and  research in these areas. She also teaches within the Department of Clinical Pathology as well as externally; and she is actively involved in developing the curriculum, for the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Lerner School of Medicine of Case Western University.