Citizen Science Surveillance of Triazole-Resistant <i>Aspergillus fumigatus</i> in United Kingdom Residential Garden Soils-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Citizen Science Surveillance of Triazole-Resistant Aspergillus fumigatus in United Kingdom Residential Garden Soils

Published:2022-02-22 Issue:4 Volume:88 Page:
ISSN:0099-2240
Container-title:Applied and Environmental Microbiology
language:en
Short-container-title:Appl Environ Microbiol

Author:

Shelton Jennifer M. G.¹²^ORCID,Collins Roseanna³,Uzzell Christopher B.¹,Alghamdi Asmaa⁴,Dyer Paul S.⁴,Singer Andrew C.²,Fisher Matthew C.¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, UK

2. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, UK

3. School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

4. School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

Abstract

The findings presented here highlight compost as a potential health hazard to individuals with predisposing factors to A. fumigatus lung infections and as a potential health hazard to immunocompetent individuals who could be exposed to sufficiently high numbers of spores to develop infection. Furthermore, we found that 14% of A. fumigatus isolates in garden soils were resistant to an agricultural triazole, which confers cross-resistance to medical triazoles used to treat A. fumigatus lung infections.

Funder

Albaha University

UKRI | Medical Research Council

UKRI | Natural Environment Research Council

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Ecology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Food Science,Biotechnology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/aem.02061-21

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