Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (Apr 1975)

Testes de susceptibilidade de agentes da cromomicose à 5-fluorocitosina e ao butil-simpatol (Vasculat)

  • Maria Aparecida de Resende,
  • Luiz Gonzaga de Oliveira,
  • Cid Ferreira Lopes,
  • Eduardo Osório Cisalpino

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 2
pp. 73 – 74

Abstract

Read online

Foram realizados testes de susceptibilidade "in vitro" com várias amostras de agentes, isoladas de pacientes com cromomicose frente à 5-fluorocitosina e ao butil-simpatol (Vasculat), nas concentrações de 0,1, 1,0, 5,0 10,0 mcg/ml. Em alguns casos, em que se verificou resistência à 5-fluorocitosina, a concentração desta chegou a 100,0 mcg/ml.The sensitivity of strains isolated from patients with chromomycosis was tested in relation to 5-fluorocitosine and butyl-simpatol (Vasculat); some strains were resistant to fluorocitosine, even in the concentration of 100 mcg/ml and all of them showed complete resistance to butyl-simpatol.