Abstract

Voriconazole levels were determined with high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and a microbiological agar diffusion assay using a Candida parapsilosis isolate in 103 serum samples from an HPLC-tested external quality control program (n = 39), 21 patients receiving voriconazole monotherapy (n = 39), and 7 patients receiving combination therapy (n = 25). The results of the bioassay were correlated with the results obtained from the external quality control program samples and with the HPLC results in sera from patients on voriconazole monotherapy and on combination therapy with an echinocandin (Spearman's rank correlation coefficient [rs], > 0.93; mean ± standard error of the mean [SEM] % difference, <12% ± 3.8%).

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