Emerging Aspergillus lentulus infections in Taiwan: clinical and environmental surveillance.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and characteristics of Aspergillus lentulus clinical and environmental isolates in Taiwan.

Methods

Aspergillus isolates obtained from patients at three hospitals and from 530 soil samples across Taiwan were screened. A. lentulus, confirmed by calmodulin sequencing, was subjected to antifungal susceptibility testing and cyp51A analyses. Soil samples yielding A. lentulus were analysed for residues of 25 azole fungicides.

Results

Nine A. lentulus isolates were identified, which included seven (1.2%, 7/601) isolates from three antifungal-naïve patients out of 601 Aspergillus section Fumigati clinical isolates and two (0.3%, 2/659) isolates out of 659 Asperg

SUBMITTER: Chen PY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11358634 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature