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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, December 2005, p. 5133-5135, Vol. 49, No. 12
0066-4804/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AAC.49.12.5133-5135.2005
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Efficacy of Caspofungin against Aspergillus terreus

Istituto di Malattie Infettive e Medicina Pubblica,¹ Istituto di Anatomia Patologica,² Centro Gestione Presidenza Medicina e Chirurgia, Università Politecnica delle Marche,³ Laboratorio di Microbiologia Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Ospedali Riuniti Umberto I-Lancisi-Salesi, Ancona, Italy,⁴ Istituto di Farmacologia Preclinica e Clinica, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy,⁵ Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas,⁶ Audie L. Murphy Division, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas⁷

Received 23 July 2005/ Returned for modification 1 September 2005/ Accepted 3 October 2005

We investigated the in vitro and in vivo activities of caspofungin against Aspergillus terreus. The drug increased survival and reduced tissue fungal burden in neutropenic mice. Therefore, our data support the role of caspofungin in treating systemic infections due to this emerging pathogen.

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