Invasive Fungal Infections: The Currently Patterns in Antifungal Resistance and Epidemiology
A special issue of Journal of Fungi (ISSN 2309-608X). This special issue belongs to the section "Fungal Pathogenesis and Disease Control".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 July 2023) | Viewed by 6451
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Interests: medical microbiology; infectious diseases; invasive candidiasis; septicemia; antimicrobial resistance; biomarkers; flow cytometry; microbiological diagnostic; epidemiology; public health
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Dear Colleagues,
The increasing incidence of fungal infections in recent years has turned into a global health problem. Fungal infections can range from superficial and cutaneous to subcutaneous and systemic infections with varying degrees of severity. Although Candida spp. is the most isolated yeast from patients’ biological samples, Aspergillus, Fusarium, Mucorales and other molds can also cause life-threatening invasive infections. In fact, the World Health Organization is developing the first global fungal priority list to define research and development urgencies. Prevention, early symptom recognition, and rapid initiation of appropriate antifungal therapy are real-life challenges. For clinicians, the three main issues of concern regarding antifungal resistance are how commonly it occurs, how easy it is to induce through inappropriate use of antifungal agents, and how often it results in treatment failure. Under stressful conditions such as antifungal exposure, fungi may exploit several cellular responses to increase plasticity to evade treatment and host immune systems.
The aim of this Special Issue is to gather more information regarding the epidemiology of invasive fungal infections as well as the most up-to-date information around antifungal tolerance and resistance.
Dr. Sofia Costa de Oliveira
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- invasive infections
- antifungal resistance
- antifungal tolerance
- biofilm
- molecular mechanisms
- deep-seated infections
- opportunistic infections
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