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Combinations of antifungals to effectively kill drug-resistant Candida auris

Jaggavarapu, S.; Burd, E. M.; Weiss, D. S.

2019-09-26 microbiology
10.1101/776096 bioRxiv
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Candida auris is an emerging, highly virulent fungal pathogen that is often resistant to multiple classes of antifungals. To overcome this resistance, we investigated the in vitro efficacy of antifungal combinations, finding that amphotericin B/micafungin resulted in drastically reduced survival (~5 logs) of all 10 isolates tested including 2 that were refractory to each individual drug. These findings suggest that combination therapy with micafungin/amphotericin B may have clinical utility against broadly resistant C. auris.

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