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Benoît Thomas1, Nelly Contet Audonneau2, Marie Machouart3
1Université de Lorraine, CHRU-Nancy, Laboratoire de Parasitologie Mycologie, F54000 Nancy, France; Laboratoire de Biologie Médicale, Hôpitaux Privés de Metz, 13 rue de la gendarmerie, 57000 Metz, France.
Background:
Fusarium is an environmental mold that causes deep or superficial mycosis in immunocompromised or immunocompetent patients respectively.
Methods:
This epidemiological study evaluated the frequency of Fusarium infections in our university hospital center in France over a decade from 2007 to 2016 and its representativeness in the main clinical infections.
Results:
A total of 715 Fusarium sp. were isolated from various sampling sites. Fusarium was detected in 0.47% of blood cultures, 31.1% of ophthalmic samples, and 8.48% of nail samples. The frequency of Fusarium infections was stable over this decade.
Conclusions:
The main Fusarium species complexes recorded in this study were Fusarium oxysporum species complex and Fusarium solani species complex, indicating the importance of Fusarium as a fungal agent that should be considered in clinical practice. A focus on invasive fusarioses shows that they all occur in hematology patients.
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