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 …

Identification of Drug Resistant Candida auris

M Kordalewska, DS Perlin - Frontiers in microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Candida auris is a multidrug resistant yeast, recognized as a cause of invasive infections
and health care associated outbreaks around the world. C. auris is of great public health …

Oropharyngeal candidiasis in hospitalised COVID‐19 patients from Iran: Species identification and antifungal susceptibility pattern

M Salehi, K Ahmadikia, S Mahmoudi, S Kalantari… - Mycoses, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background Emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) is a major healthcare
threat. Apparently, the novel coronavirus (SARS‐CoV‐2) is armed by special abilities to …

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 …

Candida auris: A Quick Review on Identification, Current Treatments, and Challenges

L Černáková, M Roudbary, S Brás, S Tafaj… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Candida auris is a novel and major fungal pathogen that has triggered several outbreaks in
the last decade. The few drugs available to treat fungal diseases, the fact that this yeast has …

Recent trends in molecular diagnostics of yeast infections: from PCR to NGS

T Gabaldón - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The incidence of opportunistic yeast infections in humans has been increasing over recent
years. These infections are difficult to treat and diagnose, in part due to the large number …

Candida auris: An Overview of How to Screen, Detect, Test and Control This Emerging Pathogen

T Fasciana, A Cortegiani, M Ippolito, A Giarratano… - Antibiotics, 2020 - mdpi.com
The multidrug-resistant yeast Candida auris is associated with invasive infections in critically
ill patients and has been isolated in different countries worldwide. Ease of spread …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of mycoses in develo** countries

A Arastehfar, BL Wickes, M Ilkit, DH Pincus… - Journal of Fungi, 2019 - mdpi.com
Extensive advances in technology offer a vast variety of diagnostic methods that save time
and costs, but identification of fungal species causing human infections remains challenging …

A high rate of recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis and therapeutic failure of azole derivatives among Iranian women

A Arastehfar, ML Kargar, SR Mohammadi… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis (RVVC) is one of the most prevalent fungal infections in
humans, especially in develo** countries; however, it is underestimated and regarded as …