COVID-19-associated fungal infections

M Hoenigl, D Seidel, R Sprute, C Cunha… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-associated invasive fungal infections are an
important complication in a substantial number of critically ill, hospitalized patients with …

Pathogenesis of mucormycosis

AS Ibrahim, B Spellberg, TJ Walsh… - Clinical infectious …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Mucormycosis is a life-threatening infection that occurs in patients who are
immunocompromised because of diabetic ketoacidosis, neutropenia, organ transplantation …

A phylum-level phylogenetic classification of zygomycete fungi based on genome-scale data

JW Spatafora, Y Chang, GL Benny, K Lazarus… - Mycologia, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Zygomycete fungi were classified as a single phylum, Zygomycota, based on sexual
reproduction by zygospores, frequent asexual reproduction by sporangia, absence of …

Therapy of mucormycosis

NV Sipsas, MN Gamaletsou, A Anastasopoulou… - Journal of Fungi, 2018 - mdpi.com
Despite the recent introduction of mold-active agents (posaconazole and isavuconazole), in
addition to amphotericin B products, to our armamentarium against mucormycosis, many …

Beyond the whole-genome duplication: phylogenetic evidence for an ancient interspecies hybridization in the baker's yeast lineage

M Marcet-Houben, T Gabaldón - PLoS biology, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Whole-genome duplications have shaped the genomes of several vertebrate, plant, and
fungal lineages. Earlier studies have focused on establishing when these events occurred …

Updates on the taxonomy of Mucorales with an emphasis on clinically important taxa

G Walther, L Wagner, O Kurzai - Journal of fungi, 2019 - mdpi.com
Fungi of the order Mucorales colonize all kinds of wet, organic materials and represent a
permanent part of the human environment. They are economically important as fermenting …

The house spider genome reveals an ancient whole-genome duplication during arachnid evolution

EE Schwager, PP Sharma, T Clarke, DJ Leite… - BMC biology, 2017 - Springer
Background The duplication of genes can occur through various mechanisms and is thought
to make a major contribution to the evolutionary diversification of organisms. There is …

Molecular mechanisms of mucormycosis—The bitter and the sweet

C Baldin, AS Ibrahim - PLoS pathogens, 2017 - journals.plos.org
During the past 2 decades, mucormycosis has become the third most common invasive
fungal infection in patients with hematological malignancies and organ transplantations [1] …

Structural polymorphism of chitin and chitosan in fungal cell walls from solid-state NMR and principal component analysis

LD Fernando, MC Dickwella Widanage… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Chitin is a major carbohydrate component of the fungal cell wall and a promising target for
novel antifungal agents. However, it is technically challenging to characterize the structure of …

Dental and oral manifestations of COVID-19 related mucormycosis: diagnoses, management strategies and outcomes

OS Janjua, MS Shaikh, MA Fareed, SM Qureshi… - Journal of Fungi, 2021 - mdpi.com
It has been nearly two years since the pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus disease
(COVID-19) has affected the world. Several innovations and discoveries related to COVID …