Case 2
In this case a patient has already been diagnosed with a bloodstream Candida albicans infection by classical means. Treatment with fluconazole has proved ineffective and the p[atient is now very ill. You urgently need to test the sensitivity of the isolate to fluconazole.
You know that a lot of molecular work has been done on the molecular basis of fluconazole resitance and that conventional testing could take several days
would you like to
- ask your friendly mycologists about possible rapid testing for fluconazole resistance in Candida?
- not bother and go ahead with the standard plate based test?
- ask about rapid testing and simultaneously go ahead with the standard susceptibility test?