COVID-19-associated candidiasis (CAC): an underestimated complication in the absence of immunological predispositions?

A Arastehfar, A Carvalho, MH Nguyen, MT Hedayati… - Journal of fungi, 2020 - mdpi.com
The recent global pandemic of COVID-19 has predisposed a relatively high number of
patients to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), which carries a risk of develo** …

Candidemia and invasive candidiasis

TP McCarty, CM White, PG Pappas - Infectious Disease Clinics, 2021 - id.theclinics.com
Invasive infection caused by Candida species is a condition associated with medical
progress. It is a common health care–associated infection (HAI), and is widely recognized as …

Clinical practice guideline for the management of candidiasis: 2016 update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

PG Pappas, CA Kauffman, DR Andes… - Clinical infectious …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
It is important to realize that guidelines cannot always account for individual variation among
patients. They are not intended to supplant physician judgment with respect to particular …

Antibiotic-induced collateral damage to the microbiota and associated infections

L de Nies, CM Kobras, M Stracy - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2023 - nature.com
Antibiotics have transformed medicine, saving millions of lives since they were first used to
treat a bacterial infection. However, antibiotics administered to target a specific pathogen …

The changing epidemiology of invasive fungal infections

DA Enoch, H Yang, SH Aliyu, C Micallef - Human fungal pathogen …, 2017 - Springer
Invasive fungal infections (IFI) are an emerging problem worldwide with invasive candidiasis
and candidemia responsible for the majority of cases. This is predominantly driven by the …

Candida parapsilosis: from genes to the bedside

R Tóth, J Nosek, HM Mora-Montes… - Clinical microbiology …, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Patients with suppressed immunity are at the highest risk for hospital-acquired infections.
Among these, invasive candidiasis is the most prevalent systemic fungal nosocomial …

Breakthrough invasive fungal infections: Who is at risk?

JD Jenks, OA Cornely, SCA Chen, GR Thompson III… - Mycoses, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The epidemiology of invasive fungal infections (IFIs) in immunocompromised individuals has
changed over the last few decades, partially due to the increased use of antifungal agents to …

Mechanistic Understanding of Candida albicans Biofilm Formation and Approaches for Its Inhibition

T Atriwal, K Azeem, FM Husain, A Hussain… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, the demand for novel antifungal therapies has increased several-folds due
to its potential to treat severe biofilm-associated infections. Biofilms are made by the sessile …

Invasive candidiasis

TP McCarty, PG Pappas - Infectious Disease Clinics, 2016 - id.theclinics.com
Invasive infection due to Candida species is a condition associated with medical progress. It
is a common health care–associated infection and is widely recognized as a major cause of …

Toward SERS-based therapeutic drug monitoring in clinical settings: Recent developments and trends

C Liu, S Weber, R Peng, L Wu, W Zhang… - TrAC Trends in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) plays an important role in ensuring optimal drug therapy
and has become increasingly important in clinical practice. In the first part of this review …