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The general principles seen with
antimicrobial agents and bacteria are also observed with eukaryotic cells. The slide shows
a mutant selection curve with the yeast Candida glabrata applied to
miconazole-containing agar plates. In this experiment colonies were recovered from
drug-containing agar, restreaked on drug-free agar, and then retested on drug-containing
agar to establish that the mutants were stable. Notice that the mutant recovery frequency
(plateau) is very high and that the selection window is very wide. These features are
expected to cause resistant mutants to be readily enriched by miconazole treatment. As
expected, the selection curve was shifted by the presence of resistance mutations, which
in this case are undefined. Similar results were obtained with Candida albicans. The slide
shows unpublished work by Wang et al., Public Health Research Institute. |