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. 2020 Aug 13;11:1850. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01850

TABLE 1.

Review of published studies on azole resistance in patients with cystic fibrosis.

Study and year of publication Country Azole resistance rate at patient level No. CF patients with A. fumigatus No. A. fumigatus isolates in CF patients Reported number of CF patients with A. fumigatus harboring a mutation of environmental origin Reported number of CF patients with A. fumigatus harboring a mutation of non-environmental origin
Amorim et al., 2010 Portugal 0%* 11 159 None None
Mortensen et al., 2011a Denmark 4.5% 133 413 2/133 (1.5%) with TR34/L98H 4/133 (3%) one M220K, one Y4131C, one M220I and one non-CYP51A mutation
Burgel et al., 2012 France 4.6% 131 285 2/131 (1.5%) with TR34/L98H 4/131 (3.1%) one G54E, one M220I, one M220R and one non-CYP51A mutation
Morio et al., 2012 France 8% 50 85 3/50 (6%) with TR34/L98H 2/50 (4%) one M220T and one with TR34/L98H, G54R and M220T
Bader et al., 2013 Germany 5.5%** na for cystic fibrosis 163 Three isolates with TR34/L98H*** One isolate with M220I, one isolate withF219C and four isolates with non-CYP51A mutations were also detected***
Fischer et al., 2014 Germany 3.4% 119 526 3/119 (2.5%). Three patients with TR34/L98H of which one with both TR34/L98H and TR46/Y121F/T289A 1/119 (8.4%) with M220L
Garczewska et al., 2016 Poland 0% na for A. fumigatus 67 None None
Stevens et al., 2016 United States 7%** 28 30 na na
Prigitano et al., 2017 Italy 0% and 8.2% at the two centers 220 423 7/220 (3.2%) with TR34/L98H 1/220 (0.5%) with F219I
Abdolrasouli et al., 2018 United Kingdom 13.3% overall and 16.2% in CF patients specifically 74 N/A for CF patients 5/74 (6.8%) with TR34/L98H None
Güngör et al., 2018 Turkey 16.7% 6 31 None 1/6 (16.7%) non-CYP51A mutation
Guegan et al., 2018 France 15.2% 33 42 1/33 (3%) with TR34/L98H 4/33 (12.1%) one M220K, one G54R and two non-CYP51A mutations
Seufert et al., 2018 Germany 5.3% 961 2888 89 isolates TR34/L98H and one isolate with TR46/Y121F/T289A*** Seven G54E, one G54R, one F219S and two non-CYP51A mutations***
Engel et al., 2019 Netherlands 7.1%**** 558 2652 5.2% with TR34/L98H and 1.4% with TR46/T289A/Y121F**** 0.2% with M220 and 0.2% with G54W****
Lavergne et al., 2019 France 6.8% 88 126 4/88 (4.5%). Two with TR34/L98H, one with TR34/L98H/S297T/F495I and one with TR46/Y121F/T289A 2/88 (2.3%) one F46Y/M172V/N248T/D255E/E427K and one non-CYP51A mutation

CF: Cystic fibrosis. A. fumigatus: Aspergillus fumigatus na: Not available. *One patient had one isolate with MIC outside of the epidemiological cut-off of 0.25 μg/mL for posaconazole. **Azole resistance at isolate level in CF patients. ***The number of mutations per patient was not reported. ****Mean per year.