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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY, Oct. 2002, p. 3841–3844 0095-1137/02/$04.00⫹0 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.40.10.3841–3844.2002 Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Vol. 40, No. 10

Comparison of the Antifungal Susceptibility Testing Subcommittee of the European Committee on Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing Proposed Standard and the E-Test with the NCCLS Broth Microdilution Method for Voriconazole and Caspofungin Susceptibility Testing of Yeast Species Erja Chryssanthou1* and Manuel Cuenca-Estrella2 Department of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden,1 and Servicio de Micología, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28220 Majadahonda, Spain2 Received 25 February 2002/Returned for modification 8 May 2002/Accepted 28 June 2002

The proposed standard of the Antifungal Susceptibility Testing Subcommittee of the European Committee on Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing (AFST-EUCAST) and the E-test procedures were compared with the NCCLS reference broth microdilution method for voriconazole and caspofungin susceptibility testing of 102 clinical Candida species and Saccharomyces cerevisiae isolates. The voriconazole MIC at which 50% of strains were inhibited (MIC50) was