Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in the COVID‐19 era: An expected new entity

M Machado, M Valerio, A Álvarez‐Uría, M Olmedo… - Mycoses, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Information on the recently COVID‐19‐associated pulmonary aspergillosis
(CAPA) entity is scarce. We describe eight CAPA patients, compare them to colonised ICU …

Global guideline for the diagnosis and management of rare yeast infections: an initiative of the ECMM in cooperation with ISHAM and ASM

SCA Chen, J Perfect, AL Colombo… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Uncommon, or rare, yeast infections are on the rise given increasing numbers of patients
who are immunocompromised or seriously ill. The major pathogens include those of the …

Population genomics confirms acquisition of drug-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus infection by humans from the environment

J Rhodes, A Abdolrasouli, K Dunne, TR Sewell… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Infections caused by the fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus are increasingly resistant to
first-line azole antifungal drugs. However, despite its clinical importance, little is known …

Pulmonary cryptococcosis

AR Howard-Jones, R Sparks, D Pham, C Halliday… - Journal of Fungi, 2022 - mdpi.com
Pulmonary cryptococcosis describes an invasive lung mycosis caused by Cryptococcus
neoformans or Cryptococcus gattii complex. It is often a high-consequence disease in both …

Rezafungin—mechanisms of action, susceptibility and resistance: similarities and differences with the other echinocandins

G Garcia-Effron - Journal of fungi, 2020 - mdpi.com
Rezafungin (formerly CD101) is a new β-glucan synthase inhibitor that is chemically related
with anidulafungin. It is considered the first molecule of the new generation of long-acting …

Antifungal susceptibility testing: current approaches

EL Berkow, SR Lockhart… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Although not as ubiquitous as antibacterial susceptibility testing, antifungal susceptibility
testing (AFST) is a tool of increasing importance in clinical microbiology laboratories. The …

Sensitivity of Candida albicans to essential oils: are they an alternative to antifungal agents?

E Bona, S Cantamessa, M Pavan… - Journal of applied …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Aims Candida albicans is an important opportunistic pathogen, responsible for the majority
of yeast infections in humans. Essential oils, extracted from aromatic plants, are well‐known …

An Azole-Resistant Candida parapsilosis Outbreak: Clonal Persistence in the Intensive Care Unit of a Brazilian Teaching Hospital

DY Thomaz, JN de Almeida Jr, GME Lima… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The incidence of candidemia by the Candida parapsilosis complex has increased
considerably in recent decades, frequently related to use of indwelling intravascular …

Update from a 12-year nationwide fungemia surveillance: increasing intrinsic and acquired resistance causes concern

KMT Astvad, HK Johansen, BL Røder… - Journal of Clinical …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
New data from the years 2012 to 2015 from the Danish National Fungemia Surveillance are
reported, and epidemiological trends are investigated in a 12-year perspective (2004 to …

Evidence of fluconazole-resistant Candida parapsilosis genotypes spreading across hospitals located in Madrid, Spain and harboring the Y132F ERG11p substitution

J Díaz-García, A Gómez, L Alcalá… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
We have been monitoring the antifungal resistance in Candida parapsilosis isolates
collected from inpatients at Madrid metropolitan area hospitals for the last 3 years. The study …