To obtain a better understanding of the molecular basis of antifungal drug resistance in order to facilitate the development of diagnostic tools and effective intervention strategies to prevent resistance.
Develop new approaches using drug combinations in order to improve therapeutic outcome and overcome resistance.
To build up a collection of strains displaying a wide range of susceptibility to known antifungals and associated with molecular epidemiology data.
To use the knowledge obtained in this study in order to generate novel diagnostic tools using post-genomic approaches.