Ilse Curfs-Breuker

Mrs. Ilse Curfs-Breuker


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Academic Career Length

10Years (2017-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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26 April 2017 in Journal of Fungi
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Abdullah Al-HatmiAbdullah Al-Hatmi
Abdullah Al-Hatmi
ICIlse Curfs-Breuker
Ilse Curfs-Breuker
SHSybren Sijbrand de Hoog
Sybren Sijbrand de Hoog
JMJacobus F. Meis
Jacobus F. Meis
PVPaul Verweij
Paul Verweij
In vitro susceptibility testing of Fusarium is becoming increasingly important because of frequency and diversity of infections and because resistance profiles are species-specific. Reference methods for antifungal susceptibility testing (AFST) are those of Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) and European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility (EUCAST), but breakpoints (BPs) have not yet been established. One of the problems is that phylogenetic distances between Fusarium species are much smaller than between species of, e.g., Candida. Epidemiological cutoff values (ECVs) for some Fusarium species have been determined in order to differentiate wild-type from non-wild-type isolates. In clinical routine, commercially available assays such as Etest, Sensititre or others provide essential agreement with reference methods. Our objective is to summarize antifungal susceptibility testing of Fusarium genus in the clinical laboratory: how to do it, when to do it, and how to interpret it.