In the past few years, fungal diseases caused estimated over 1.6 million deaths annually
and over one billion people suffer from severe fungal diseases (;). Public health surveillance …

Endemic mycoses such as histoplasmosis, coccidioidomycosis, blastomycosis,
paracoccidioidomycosis, and talaromycosis are well-known causes of focal and systemic …

Fungi often infect mammalian hosts via the respiratory route, but traumatic transcutaneous
implantation is also an important source of infections. Environmental exposure to spores of …

Assessment of the global burden and epidemiologic trends of fungal diseases is critical to
prioritizing prevention strategies, diagnostic modalities, and therapeutic interventions. The …

Fungi must meet four criteria to infect humans: growth at human body temperatures,
circumvention or penetration of surface barriers, lysis and absorption of tissue, and …

Background Fungal infections remain a major contributor to the opportunistic infections that
affect people living with HIV. Among them, histoplasmosis is considered neglected, often …

During recent decades, antifungal susceptibility testing has become standardized and
nowadays has the same role of the antibacterial susceptibility testing in microbiology …

Coccidioidomycosis consists of a spectrum of disease, ranging from a mild, self-limited,
febrile illness to severe, life-threatening infection. It is caused by the soil-dwelling fungi …

Histoplasmosis is a global disease endemic to regions of all six inhabited continents. The
areas of highest endemicity lie within the Mississippi and Ohio River Valleys of North …

In the USA, histoplasmosis is generally thought to occur mainly in the Ohio and Mississippi
river valleys, and the classic map of histoplasmosis distribution reflecting this is second …