Chytrid fungi and global amphibian declines

MC Fisher, TWJ Garner - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2020 - nature.com
Discovering that chytrid fungi cause chytridiomycosis in amphibians represented a paradigm
shift in our understanding of how emerging infectious diseases contribute to global patterns …

Nine Things Genomics Can Tell Us About Candida auris

AD Chybowska, DS Childers, RA Farrer - Frontiers in genetics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Candida auris is a recently emerged multidrug-resistant fungal pathogen causing severe
illness in hospitalized patients. C. auris is most closely related to a few environmental or …

Virulence and pathogenicity of chytrid fungi causing amphibian extinctions

MC Fisher, F Pasmans, A Martel - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Ancient enzootic associations between wildlife and their infections allow evolution to
innovate mechanisms of pathogenicity that are counterbalanced by host responses …

MycopathologiaGENOMES: the new 'home'for the publication of fungal genomes

M Mac Aogáin, V Chaturvedi, SH Chotirmall - Mycopathologia, 2019 - Springer
The wider availability of information on genomes has become essential for future advances
in fungal biology, pathogenesis and epidemiology, and for the discovery of new drugs and …

Fungal genomics in respiratory medicine: what, how and when?

AP Brackin, SJ Hemmings, MC Fisher, J Rhodes - Mycopathologia, 2021 - Springer
Respiratory infections caused by fungal pathogens present a growing global health concern
and are a major cause of death in immunocompromised patients. Worryingly, coronavirus …

The pathobiology of human fungal infections

GD Brown, ER Ballou, S Bates, EM Bignell… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Human fungal infections are a historically neglected area of disease research, yet they
cause more than 1.5 million deaths every year. Our understanding of the pathophysiology of …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative Genomics: Insights on the Pathogenicity and Lifestyle of Rhizoctonia solani

N Mat Razali, SN Hisham, IS Kumar… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Proper management of agricultural disease is important to ensure sustainable food security.
Staple food crops like rice, wheat, cereals, and other cash crops hold great export value for …

Diagnosing emerging fungal threats: a one health perspective

PN Ghosh, MC Fisher, KA Bates - Frontiers in genetics, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Emerging fungal pathogens are a growing threat to global health, ecosystems, food security,
and the world economy. Over the last century, environmental change and globalized …

Development and worldwide use of non-lethal, and minimal population-level impact, protocols for the isolation of amphibian chytrid fungi

MC Fisher, P Ghosh, JMG Shelton, K Bates… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Parasitic chytrid fungi have emerged as a significant threat to amphibian species worldwide,
necessitating the development of techniques to isolate these pathogens into culture for …

HaplotypeTools: a toolkit for accurately identifying recombination and recombinant genotypes

RA Farrer - BMC bioinformatics, 2021 - Springer
Background Identifying haplotypes is central to sequence analysis in diploid or polyploid
genomes. Despite this, there remains a lack of research and tools designed for physical …