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American Society for Microbiology, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 4(88), 2022

DOI: 10.1128/aem.02061-21

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

Journal article published in 2022 by Jennifer M. G. Shelton ORCID, Roseanna Collins, Christopher B. Uzzell, Asmaa Alghamdi, Paul S. Dyer, Andrew C. Singer, Matthew C. Fisher ORCID
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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.