Drug-resistant fungi: an emerging challenge threatening our limited antifungal armamentarium

A Arastehfar, T Gabaldón, R Garcia-Rubio, JD Jenks… - Antibiotics, 2020 - mdpi.com
The high clinical mortality and economic burden posed by invasive fungal infections (IFIs),
along with significant agricultural crop loss caused by various fungal species, has resulted in …

Candida glabrata (Nakaseomyces glabrata): A systematic review of clinical and microbiological data from 2011 to 2021 to inform the World Health Organization …

J Beardsley, HY Kim, A Dao, S Kidd… - Medical …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Recognising the growing global burden of fungal infections, the World Health Organization
(WHO) established an advisory group consisting of experts in fungal diseases to develop a …

Candidemia among Iranian patients with severe COVID-19 admitted to ICUs

A Arastehfar, T Shaban, H Zarrinfar, M Roudbary… - Journal of Fungi, 2021 - mdpi.com
As a novel risk factor, COVID-19 has led to an increase in the incidence of candidemia and
an elevated mortality rate. Despite being of clinical importance, there is a lack of data …

First report of candidemia clonal outbreak caused by emerging fluconazole-resistant Candida parapsilosis isolates harboring Y132F and/or Y132F+ K143R in Turkey

A Arastehfar, F Daneshnia… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Clonal outbreaks of fluconazole-resistant (FLZR) Candida parapsilosis isolates have been
reported in several countries. Despite its being the second leading cause of candidemia, the …

Antifungal susceptibility, genotyping, resistance mechanism, and clinical profile of Candida tropicalis blood isolates

A Arastehfar, F Daneshnia, A Hafez… - Medical …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Candida tropicalis is one of the major candidaemia agents, associated with the highest
mortality rates among Candida species, and developing resistance to azoles. Little is known …

Clonal Candidemia Outbreak by Candida parapsilosis Carrying Y132F in Turkey: Evolution of a Persisting Challenge

A Arastehfar, S Hilmioğlu-Polat, F Daneshnia… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
As the second leading etiological agent of candidemia in Turkey and the cause of severe
fluconazole-non-susceptible (FNS) clonal outbreaks, Candida parapsilosis emerged as a …

Evaluation of molecular epidemiology, clinical characteristics, antifungal susceptibility profiles, and molecular mechanisms of antifungal resistance of Iranian Candida …

A Arastehfar, F Daneshnia, MJ Najafzadeh… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Clonal expansion of fluconazole resistant (FLZ-R) Candida parapsilosis isolates is
increasingly being identified in many countries, while there is no study exploring the …

Candida tropicalis is the most prevalent yeast species causing candidemia in Algeria: the urgent need for antifungal stewardship and infection control measures

Y Megri, A Arastehfar, T Boekhout, F Daneshnia… - … Resistance & Infection …, 2020 - Springer
Background Despite being associated with a high mortality and economic burden, data
regarding candidemia are scant in Algeria. The aim of this study was to unveil the …

Green synthesis of selenium nanoparticles and evaluate their effect on the expression of ERG3, ERG11 and FKS1 antifungal resistance genes in Candida albicans …

M Hosseini Bafghi, H Zarrinfar… - Letters in Applied …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Drug resistance in Candida species has been considerably increased in the last decades.
Given the opposition to antifungal agents, toxicity and interactions of the antimicrobial drugs …

Screening the antifungal activities of monoterpenes and their isomers against Candida species

A Iraji, S Yazdanpanah, F Alizadeh… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Aim Increasing the occurrence of non‐albicans Candida species with intrinsic or acquired
resistance to antifungals as well as the emergence of multidrug Candida species coupled …