1. Investigation of a Lomentospora prolificans case cluster with whole genome sequencing
- Author
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Matthew Wright, Stanley Pang, Peter Boan, Dianne Gardam, Geoffrey W. Coombs, and Helen Darragh
- Subjects
0301 basic medicine ,030106 microbiology ,030231 tropical medicine ,Lomentospora prolificans ,Single-nucleotide polymorphism ,LOMENTOSPORA PROLIFICANS ,Disease cluster ,Microbiology ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Medicine ,Fungal outbreak ,Typing ,lcsh:QH301-705.5 ,Whole genome sequencing ,Genetics ,lcsh:R5-920 ,Scedosporium prolificans ,biology ,business.industry ,Outbreak ,Antifungal resistance ,biology.organism_classification ,Infectious Diseases ,lcsh:Biology (General) ,lcsh:Medicine (General) ,business - Abstract
Lomentospora prolificans has caused outbreaks in immunocompromised patients. We performed whole genome sequencing (WGS) on 4 L. prolificans isolates from infections occurring during an 8-month period in the haematology unit at Hospital 1., and 2 isolates from unrelated infections at Hospital 2., showing a high number of mutational differences (>10,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms) between L. prolificans isolates from Hospital 1. Novel typing of isolates by WGS did not demonstrate a single causative strain.
- Published
- 2020