Nilo Vincent FlorCruz, Jennifer Evans
BACKGROUND: Fungal keratitis is a fungal infection of the cornea. It is common in lower income countries, particularly in agricultural areas but relatively uncommon in higher income countries. Although there are medications available, their effectiveness is unclear. OBJECTIVES: To assess the effects...
Arunaloke Chakrabarti, Shiv Sekhar Chatterjee, Ashim Das, M. R. Shivaprakash
To review invasive aspergillosis (IA) in developing countries, we included those countries, which are mentioned in the document of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), called the Emerging and Developing Economies List, 2009. A PubMed/Medline literature search was performed for studies concerning I...
Chayaporn Suphavilai, Karrie Kwan Ki Ko, Kar Mun Lim, Mei Gie Tan et al.
BACKGROUND: The emerging fungal pathogen Candida auris poses a serious threat to global public health due to its worldwide distribution, multidrug resistance, high transmissibility, propensity to cause outbreaks, and high mortality. We aimed to characterise three unusual C auris isolates detected in...
Maureen T. McCann, Brendan Gilmore, Sean P. Gorman
Abstract Staphylococcus epidermidis, the most frequently isolated coagulase-negative staphylococcus, is the leading cause of infection related to implanted medical devices (IMDs). This is directly related to its capability to establish multilayered, highly structured biofilms on artificial surfaces....
Mahdi Abastabar, Iman Haghani, Fatemeh Ahangarkani, Mohammad Sadegh Rezai et al.
Candida auris is a multidrug-resistant yeast emerging in immunocompromised and in otherwise healthy individuals. Due to difficulties in microbiological identification of C. auris because of the lack of available laboratory technology in developing countries, the number of patients affected is most l...
Ian Christopher N. Rocha, Mohammad Mehedi Hasan, Samarth Goyal, Tapan Patel et al.
In addition to the overwhelming and uncontrollable second wave of COVID-19 in India, the country is also dealing with an outbreak of mucormycosis, a deadly fungal infection, which is affecting thousands of COVID-19 patients. With the increasing number of cases of mucormycosis and a fatality rate of ...
M. Rezanur Rahman, G J Johnson, Rabiul Husain, S. A Howlader et al.
AIM: The management of suppurative keratitis due to filamentous fungi presents severe problems in tropical countries. The aim was to demonstrate the efficacy of chlorhexidine 0.2% drops as an inexpensive antimicrobial agent, which could be widely distributed for fungal keratitis. METHODS: Successive...
Cene Gostinčar, Janja Zajc, Metka Lenassi, Ana Plemenitaš et al.
Numerous agents of infections in humans and other mammals are found among fungi that are able to survive extreme environmental conditions and to quickly adapt to novel habitats. Nevertheless, the relationship between opportunistic potential and polyextremotolerance was not yet studied systematically...
Jalila Mohsin, Ferry Hagen, Zainab A. M. Al‐Balushi, Sybren de Hoog et al.
Summary Candida auris has been recognised as a problematic healthcare‐associated emerging yeast which is often misidentified as Candida haemulonii by commercial systems. Correct early identification of C. auris is important for appropriate antifungal treatment and implementing effective infection co...
Yuriko Nagano, J.S. Elborn, B. Cherie Millar, James M. Walker et al.
This study compares conventional and molecular techniques for the detection of fungi in 77 adult cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. Three different methods were investigated, i.e., (1) conventional microbiological culture (including yeasts and filamentous fungi), (2) mycological culture with CF-derived ...
Nafisa Ahmed, Maiesha Samiha Mahmood, Md. Asad Ullah, Yusha Araf et al.
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is threatening public health. A large number of affected people need to be hospitalized. Immunocompromised patients and ICU-admitted patients are predisposed to further bacterial and fung...
Manuel Kussmann, Matthias Karer, Markus Obermueller, Katy Schmidt et al.
In the present study, we demonstrated the emergence of dalbavancin non-susceptible and teicoplanin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus small colony variants which were selected in vivo through long-term treatment with dalbavancin. A 36-year-old man presented with a cardiac device-related S. aureus endoc...
Eric J. Bow, Gerald A. Evans, Jeff Fuller, Michél Laverdière et al.
Candidemia and invasive candidiasis (C/IC) are life-threatening opportunistic infections that add excess morbidity, mortality and cost to the management of patients with a range of potentially curable underlying conditions. The Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada develo...
Ayorinde B. Akinbobola, Ryan Kean, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi, Richard S. Quilliam
Candia auris is an emerging human pathogenic yeast; yet, despite phenotypic attributes and genomic evidence suggesting that it probably emerged from a natural reservoir, we know nothing about the environmental phase of its life cycle and the transmission pathways associated with it. The thermotolera...
Yusha Araf, Abu Tayab Moin, В. И. Тимофеев, Nairita Ahsan Faruqui et al.
Mucormycosis is a potentially fatal illness that arises in immunocompromised people due to diabetic ketoacidosis, neutropenia, organ transplantation, and elevated serum levels of accessible iron. The sudden spread of mucormycosis in COVID-19 patients engendered massive concern worldwide. Comorbiditi...