Investigation of fluconazole heteroresistance in clinical and environmental isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans complex and Cryptococcus gattii complex in the state of Amazonas, Brazil.
Izabela de Mesquita Bárcia MoreiraAna Cláudia Alves CortezÉrica Simplício de SouzaSilviane Bezerra PinheiroJuliana Gomes de Souza OliveiraAya SadahiroKatia Santana CruzAni Beatriz Jackisch MatsuuraMárcia de Souza Carvalho MelhemHagen FrickmannJoão Vicente Braga de SouzaPublished in: Medical mycology (2022)
Cryptococcosis affects many people and is caused by fungi of the Cryptococcus neoformans/Cryptococcus gattii complexes. These agents appear to become more resistant to antifungals when exposed to increasing concentrations of antifungals due to a phenomenon called heteroresistance.
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