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. 2022 Oct 13;13:975883. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.975883

Table 2.

Patient characteristics and results of spontaneous sputum sample cultures.

Patient 1 Patient 2 Patient 3
Sex F F M
Age (yr) 23 39 35
Antibiotic therapy Linezolid
Aztreonam
Colistin		 Linezolid
Tobramycin
Colistin		 Ciprofloxacin
Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole
Colistin
Pathogensa Escherichia coli
(2×106 CFU/ml)
Staphylococcus aureus (4.105 CFU/ml)
Candida albicans* 		Staphylococcus aureus (2.104 CFU/ml)
Pseudomonas aeruginosa (3.106 CFU/ml)
Aspergillus flavus*
Candida dubliniensis* 		Morganella morganii
(2×104 CFU/ml)
Proteus mirabilis
(8×102 CFU/ml)
Staphylococcus aureus
(7×105 CFU/ml)
Mycobacterium avium*
Trichosporon mycotoxinivorans*
Aspergillus fumigatus*
Candida albicans*
a

Sputum pathogens have been cultured, identified and quantified according to national guidelines for the microbiological analysis of sputum samples of CF patients (Société Française de Microbiologie, 2018).

*

Species load were not determined during analysis.