The rapid emergence of antifungal-resistant human-pathogenic fungi

SR Lockhart, A Chowdhary, JAW Gold - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2023 - nature.com
During recent decades, the emergence of pathogenic fungi has posed an increasing public
health threat, particularly given the limited number of antifungal drugs available to treat …

Candida auris Genetics and Emergence

A Chowdhary, K Jain, N Chauhan - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Candida auris is a multidrug-resistant fungal pathogen that presents a serious threat to
global human health. Since the first reported case in 2009 in Japan, C. auris infections have …

Threats posed by the fungal kingdom to humans, wildlife, and agriculture

MC Fisher, SJ Gurr, CA Cuomo, DS Blehert, H **… - MBio, 2020 - journals.asm.org
The fungal kingdom includes at least 6 million eukaryotic species and is remarkable with
respect to its profound impact on global health, biodiversity, ecology, agriculture …

Candida auris: Epidemiology, biology, antifungal resistance, and virulence

H Du, J Bing, T Hu, CL Ennis, CJ Nobile… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
First described in 2009 in Japan, the emerging multidrug-resistant fungal pathogen Candida
auris is becoming a worldwide public health threat that has been attracting considerable …

[HTML][HTML] Biofilm Formation in Medically Important Candida Species

Z Malinovská, E Čonková, P Váczi - Journal of Fungi, 2023 - mdpi.com
Worldwide, the number of infections caused by biofilm-forming fungal pathogens is very
high. In human medicine, there is an increasing proportion of immunocompromised patients …

Multidrug-resistant Candida auris infections in critically ill coronavirus disease patients, India, April–July 2020

A Chowdhary, B Tarai, A Singh… - Emerging infectious …, 2020 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In New Delhi, India, candidemia affected 15 critically ill coronavirus disease patients
admitted to an intensive care unit during April–July 2020. Candida auris accounted for two …

[HTML][HTML] Next generation and other sequencing technologies in diagnostic microbiology and infectious diseases

EE Hilt, P Ferrieri - Genes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have become increasingly available for
use in the clinical microbiology diagnostic environment. There are three main applications of …

Simultaneous Emergence of Multidrug-Resistant Candida auris on 3 Continents Confirmed by Whole-Genome Sequencing and Epidemiological Analyses

SR Lockhart, KA Etienne, S Vallabhaneni… - Clinical Infectious …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Background. Candida auris, a multidrug-resistant yeast that causes invasive infections, was
first described in 2009 in Japan and has since been reported from several countries …

Candida auris: a review of the literature

A Jeffery-Smith, SK Taori, S Schelenz… - Clinical microbiology …, 2018 - journals.asm.org
The emerging pathogen Candida auris has been associated with nosocomial outbreaks on
five continents. Genetic analysis indicates the simultaneous emergence of separate clades …

Candida auris: A rapidly emerging cause of hospital-acquired multidrug-resistant fungal infections globally

A Chowdhary, C Sharma, JF Meis - PLOS pathogens, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Candidiasis, which includes both superficial infections and invasive disease, is the most
common cause of fungal infection worldwide. Candida bloodstream infections (BSI) cause …