What does 5-FC stand for?

In vitro activities of 5-fluorocytosine against 8,803 clinical isolates of Candida spp.

Endocarditis caused by Rhodotorula successfully treated with 5-fluorocytosine.

Chemicals Ampicillin, erythromycin, amphotericin B, miconazole, 5-fluorocytosine and MTT reagent were purchased from Sigma Chemical Co.

Primary cutaneous cryptococcosis successfully treated with outpatient amphotericin B and 5-fluorocytosine.

There have been only two reports of successful treatment--one with a combination of IV pentamidine and oral itraconazole and the other with 5-fluorocytosine.

Despite treatment with pentamidine, 5-fluorocytosine, and itraconazole, the infection was rapidly fatal.

62 [micro]g/mL) and relatively resistant to 5-fluorocytosine (MIC, 0.

5 mL) containing blood agar made from defibrinated rabbit blood overlaid with a 1:1 mixture of RPMI 1640 medium and Schneider Drosophila cell culture medium supplemented with 10% fetal calf serum (Sigma, Saint Louis, MO, USA, and Gibco-BRL, Gaithersburg, MD, USA), 10,000 IU penicillin (Biotika, L'upca, Slovakia), 100 [micro]g/mL amikacin (Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, USA), and 1,500 [micro]g/mL 5-fluorocytosine (Sigma).