Global incidence and mortality of severe fungal disease

DW Denning - The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2024 - thelancet.com
Current estimates of fungal disease incidence and mortality are imprecise. Population at risk
denominators were used to estimate annual incidence for 2019–21. Extensive literature …

COVID-19-associated fungal infections

M Hoenigl, D Seidel, R Sprute, C Cunha… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-associated invasive fungal infections are an
important complication in a substantial number of critically ill, hospitalized patients with …

Epidemiology and pathophysiology of COVID-19-associated mucormycosis: India versus the rest of the world

V Muthu, SM Rudramurthy, A Chakrabarti, R Agarwal - Mycopathologia, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to a concerning
resurgence of mucormycosis. More than 47,000 cases of mucormycosis were reported in …

ECMM/ISHAM recommendations for clinical management of COVID‐19 associated mucormycosis in low‐and middle‐income countries

SM Rudramurthy, M Hoenigl, JF Meis, OA Cornely… - Mycoses, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Reports are increasing on the emergence of COVID‐19–associated mucormycosis (CAM)
globally, driven particularly by low‐and middle‐income countries. The recent unprecedented …

The WHO fungal priority pathogens list: a crucial reappraisal to review the prioritisation

G Casalini, A Giacomelli, S Antinori - The Lancet Microbe, 2024 - thelancet.com
In October, 2022, WHO published the first fungal priority pathogen list, which categorised 19
fungal entities into three priority groups (critical, high, and medium), for prioritisation of …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19–associated mucormycosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 958 cases

L Özbek, U Topçu, M Manay, BH Esen… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Mucormycosis, a rare fungal infection, has shown an increase in the number of
reported cases during the COVID-19 pandemic. Objectives To provide a comprehensive …

COVID-19–associated mucormycosis: Evidence-based critical review of an emerging infection burden during the pandemic's second wave in India

JM Aranjani, A Manuel, HI Abdul Razack… - PLoS neglected …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), during the second wave in early 2021, has caused
devastating chaos in India. As daily infection rates rise alarmingly, the number of severe …

Mucormycosis in 2023: an update on pathogenesis and management

A Alqarihi, DP Kontoyiannis, AS Ibrahim - Frontiers in Cellular and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Mucormycosis (MCR) is an emerging and frequently lethal fungal infection caused by the
Mucorales family, with Rhizopus, Mucor, and Lichtheimia, accounting for> 90% of all cases …

Pathogenesis of respiratory viral and fungal coinfections

F Salazar, E Bignell, GD Brown, PC Cook… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2022 - journals.asm.org
Individuals suffering from severe viral respiratory tract infections have recently emerged as
“at risk” groups for develo** invasive fungal infections. Influenza virus is one of the most …

Current treatments against mucormycosis and future directions

C Smith, SC Lee - PLoS Pathogens, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Mucormycosis (previously called zygomycosis) is a serious but rare fungal infection caused
by a group of fungi belonging to the order Mucorales. These molds exist throughout the …