Fungal infections in HIV/AIDS

AH Limper, A Adenis, T Le… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Fungi are major contributors to the opportunistic infections that affect patients with HIV/AIDS.
Systemic infections are mainly with Pneumocystis jirovecii (pneumocystosis), Cryptococcus …

Re-drawing the maps for endemic mycoses

N Ashraf, RC Kubat, V Poplin, AA Adenis, DW Denning… - Mycopathologia, 2020 - Springer
Endemic mycoses such as histoplasmosis, coccidioidomycosis, blastomycosis,
paracoccidioidomycosis, and talaromycosis are well-known causes of focal and systemic …

[HTML][HTML] Invasive fungal disease in humans: are we aware of the real impact?

C Firacative - Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2020 - SciELO Brasil
Despite the medical advances and interventions to improve the quality of life of those in
intensive care, people with cancer or severely immunocompromised or other susceptible …

A global call for talaromycosis to be recognised as a neglected tropical disease

S Narayanasamy, VQ Dat, NT Thanh, VT Ly… - The Lancet Global …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Talaromycosis (penicilliosis) is an invasive mycosis that is endemic in tropical and
subtropical Asia. Talaromycosis primarily affects individuals with advanced HIV disease and …

Talaromyces (Penicillium) marneffei infection in non-HIV-infected patients

JFW Chan, SKP Lau, KY Yuen… - Emerging microbes & …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Talaromyces (Penicillium) marneffei is an important pathogenic thermally dimorphic fungus
causing systemic mycosis in Southeast Asia. The clinical significance of T. marneffei …

Guidelines for the validation and application of typing methods for use in bacterial epidemiology

A Van Belkum, PT Tassios, L Dijkshoorn… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
For bacterial typing to be useful, the development, validation and appropriate application of
typing methods must follow unified criteria. Over a decade ago, ESGEM, the ESCMID …

An overlooked and underrated endemic mycosis—Talaromycosis and the pathogenic fungus Talaromyces marneffei

F Wang, RH Han, S Chen - Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Talaromycosis is an invasive mycosis endemic in tropical and subtropical Asia and is
caused by the pathogenic fungus Talaromyces marneffei. Approximately 17,300 cases of T …

Penicillium marneffei Infection: An Emerging Disease in Mainland China

Y Hu, J Zhang, X Li, Y Yang, Y Zhang, J Ma, L Xi - Mycopathologia, 2013 - Springer
Penicillium marneffei is an emerging pathogenic fungus that can cause a life-threatening
systemic mycosis in immunocompromised hosts, especially in patients with AIDS. This …

Osteoarticular mycoses

MN Gamaletsou, B Rammaert, B Brause… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Osteoarticular mycoses are chronic debilitating infections that require extended courses of
antifungal therapy and may warrant expert surgical intervention. As there has been no …

Anti-interferon-γ autoantibody-associated immunodeficiency

HP Shih, JY Ding, CF Yeh, CY Chi, CL Ku - Current Opinion in Immunology, 2021 - Elsevier
Anticytokine autoantibodies are an emerging disease etiology, through the disturbance of
physiological functions of cognate cytokines. Anti-interferon (IFN)-γ autoantibodies (AIGAs) …