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is the most common candidal pathogen, causing serious systemic disease in immunocompromised patients. Azoles are widely applied and largely effective; however, they are generally fungistatic and clinically resistant isolates are emerging increasingly. The present study provided evidence using a chequerboard technique that amiodarone is strongly synergistic with azoles against resistant , with mean fractional inhibitory concentration indices of 0.01 and high-percentage synergistic interactions of 1250 %. A time–kill study performed by both colony counting and a colorimetric reduction assay confirmed the synergistic interaction, with a ≥2 log decrease in c.f.u. ml compared with the corresponding azoles alone. These results suggest the possibility of supplementing azoles with amiodarone to treat resistant infections.

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