[Antimycotic sensitivity of yeast from clinical specimens (author's transl)]

The sensitivity against 5 antimycotics was examined with 353 yeast strains of 13 species from clinical material. The tests were carried out by means of the disc diffusion test on Bacto yeast morphology agar under standardized conditions. 33 (6.3%) of the isolates were resistant against 5-fluorocytosine, 11 (2.1%) strains showed no sensitivity against the imidazolyl antimycotics clotrimazole or miconazole. The resistant strains belonged to the species Candida albicans and Candida tropicalis. All of the isolates were sensitive to the polyene antimycotics nystatin and pimaricin (natamycin).