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Efficacy of micafungin alone or in combination against systemic murine aspergillosis
Javier Capilla Luque1, Karl V Clemons, David A Stevens
1University of Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain.
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
|March 26, 2003
Abstract:
We tested the efficacy of micafungin (FK) alone or in combination with other antifungals against systemic murine aspergillosis. FK alone at 10 mg/kg of body weight/dose prolonged survival (P = 0.01) and reduced CFU in the brain and kidney. Combination therapy that used suboptimal FK with amphotericin B or itraconazole prolonged survival. Although no survivors were free of infection, no antagonism was seen. Nikkomycin Z with FK showed significantly greater potency (P < 0.01) than either alone.