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Abstract
Background: The airways of patients with cystic fibrosis (pwCF) harbour complex fungal and bacterial microbiota involved in pulmonary exacerbations (PEx) and requiring antimicrobial treatment. Descriptive studies analysing bacterial and fungal microbiota concomitantly are scarce, especially using both culture and high-throughput-sequencing (HTS).
Objectives: We analysed bacterial-fungal microbiota and inter-kingdom correlations in two French CF centres according to clinical parameters and antimicrobial choices.
Methods: Forty-eight pwCF with PEx from Creteil (n = 24) and Lille (n = 24) CF centres were included over 2 years. Sputa were collected for culture and targeted-HTS (ITS2 and V3-V4 targets). Sequencing and culture data, along with clinical, radiological and treatment data, were analysed. Two-level stratified analysis was performed to study potential confounding factors (age, CF mutation, FEV1 and antibiotics) on the centre factor. Inter-kingdom correlations were analysed.
Results: Significant differences in the bacterial microbiota profile were found between centres (p-value = 0.03). For mycobiota, the taxonomic distribution and diversity were comparable. HTS provided concordant but more detailed information than culture and increased detection of main CF fungi (> 25% more positive samples for Aspergillus or Scedosporium). FEV1 and systemic antibiotic before PEx influenced bacterial microbiota, but no clinical association was found with the mycobiota. No inter-kingdom correlation between Pseudomonas and fungi was found.
Conclusions: Describing concomitant bacterial and fungal communities of pwCF at the beginning of PEx using culture and HTS shows greater diversity in HTS and better detection in case of low microbial load. Interesting inter-kingdom correlations were observed, requiring further research on larger cohorts to understand the potential microbial interactions.
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The journal Mycoses provides an international forum for original papers in English on the pathogenesis, diagnosis, therapy, prophylaxis, and epidemiology of fungal infectious diseases in humans as well as on the biology of pathogenic fungi.
Medical mycology as part of medical microbiology is advancing rapidly. Effective therapeutic strategies are already available in chemotherapy and are being further developed. Their application requires reliable laboratory diagnostic techniques, which, in turn, result from mycological basic research. Opportunistic mycoses vary greatly in their clinical and pathological symptoms, because the underlying disease of a patient at risk decisively determines their symptomatology and progress. The journal Mycoses is therefore of interest to scientists in fundamental mycological research, mycological laboratory diagnosticians and clinicians interested in fungal infections.