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We conducted a multicenter study of 305\n Trichophyton mentagrophytes<\/jats:italic>\n and\n Trichophyton interdigitale<\/jats:italic>\n isolates collected between 2019 and 2024 at six tertiary hospitals across geographically diverse regions of China. Antifungal susceptibility testing was performed using the CLSI M38 broth microdilution method under standardized quality control, and provisional ECVs were derived following CLSI M57 guidance. For\n T. mentagrophytes<\/jats:italic>\n , fluconazole showed a non-unimodal MIC distribution and was not assigned a provisional ECV. The remaining seven agents yielded ECVs of 1 \u00b5g\/mL for ciclopirox olamine and griseofulvin, 0.5 \u00b5g\/mL for itraconazole, 0.06 \u00b5g\/mL for voriconazole, 0.25 \u00b5g\/mL for posaconazole and amorolfine, and 0.016 \u00b5g\/mL for terbinafine. 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