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ArticleACS omega2025

Detection of Siderophores as a Superior Noninvasive Diagnostic Tool in Unraveling Mixed Fungal Infections.

Radim Dobiáš, Milan Navrátil, Rutuja H Patil, Dominika Luptáková, David A Stevens, Vladimír Havlíček

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Article in ACS omega, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Radim DobiášDepartment of Bacteriology and Mycology, National Reference Laboratory for Mycological Diagnostics, Public Health Institute in Ostrava, Ostrava 702 00, Czechia.
Milan NavrátilDepartment of Haemato-Oncology, University Hospital Ostrava, Czech Republic, Ostrava 703 00, Czechia.
Rutuja H PatilInstitute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague 142 00, Czechia.
Dominika LuptákováInstitute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague 142 00, Czechia.
David A StevensDivision of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, United States.
Vladimír HavlíčekInstitute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague 142 00, Czechia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8614-7059

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Abstract

Advances in the early diagnosis of systemic mycoses are urgently needed, given the morbidity and mortality of such infections and the correlation between delays in treatment and poor outcomes. We demonstrated the prospective application of liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry in the diagnosis of a mixed fungal infection. In this study, we compared the performance of chest radiography, galactomannan (sGM), and beta-d-glucan (sBDG) serology with a novel diagnostic method based on creatinine-indexed microbial siderophores in urine. A woman with angioblastic T-cell lymphoma presented with neutropenia following allogeneic transplantation. sGM and sBDG remained positive throughout the 28-day intensive care unit stay. A. fumigatus DNA was detected in the induced sputum samples on sampling days 0 and 18. On day 18, a CT scan showed a typical nest sign, and R. microsporus DNA was detected in sputum. The patient was discharged from the hospital on day 28 and expired 7 days later. With our novel strategy based on mass spectrometry, A. fumigatus was consistently detected in the urine from day 0 to the end of the stay by the detection of triacetylfusarinine C (uTafC), an A. fumigatus-specific hydroxamate siderophore. An additional invasive R. microsporus infection was revealed by the detection of a mucoromycete-specific carboxylate siderophore in urine, rhizoferrin (uRhf), from day seven onward. Both creatinine-normalized siderophore indices (uTafC/Cr, uRhf/Cr) were sensitive to antifungal therapy and correlated with fast relapses of the invasive disease in time. This study illustrates how such an early and specific new approach can unravel the complexities of dual fungal infections.

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