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Article Dans Une Revue Pathogens Année : 2023

Fluconazole Resistance and Virulence in In Vitro Induced-Fluconazole Resistant Strains and in Clinical Fluconazole Resistant Strain of Cryptococcus deuterogattii

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Neuromeningeal cryptococcosis is a life-threatening infection of the central nervous system, caused by encapsulated yeast belonging to the Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii species complexes. Recent data showed that virulence and antifungal resistance are variable for yeasts belonging to the C. gattii species complex. There is an increase in resistance to fluconazole for yeasts of the C. gattii species complex and the virulence is variable according to the genotype. In the present study, (i) we explored and compared the mechanisms of resistance to fluconazole between C. deuterogattii clinically resistant strains and induced fluconazole-resistant strains by exposure to fluconazole in vitro, and (ii) we studied their virulence in the Galleria mellonella study model. We demonstrated that the fluconazole resistance mechanisms involved were different between clinically resistant strains and induced resistant strains. We also demonstrated that fluconazole-induced resistant strains are less virulent when compared to the original susceptible strains. On the contrary, the clinically resistant strain tested maintains its virulence compared to fluconazole-susceptible strains of the same sequence type.

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hal-04106473 , version 1 (25-05-2023)

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Sébastien Bertout, Laetitia Laroche, Frédéric Roger, Donika Krasteva, Pascal Drakulovski, et al.. Fluconazole Resistance and Virulence in In Vitro Induced-Fluconazole Resistant Strains and in Clinical Fluconazole Resistant Strain of Cryptococcus deuterogattii. Pathogens, 2023, 12 (6), pp.758. ⟨10.3390/pathogens12060758⟩. ⟨hal-04106473⟩

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