Fungal Disease Reading List
April 6, 2018
Over the last four decades, the spectrum of fungal disease has evolved, to the extent that a medical mycologist who retired in the 1970s would find the discipline today almost unrecognizable. Until that time, few groups of fungi were regarded as pathogenic for humans or animals. These few included the aetiologic agents of the common superficial diseases, dermatophytosis and mucosal candidiasis, but these were not seen as serious. There were also several well-recognized subcutaneous mycoses, including chromoblastomycosis, mycetoma, and sporotrichosis, but these were largely a problem in the tropics and subtropics. The principal systemic mycoses—aspergillosis, candidiasis, and cryptococcosis—were largely untreatable and usually fatal. However, these diseases were regarded as uncommon. Furthermore, Pneumocystis jirovecii infection was not even recognized to be a fungal disease. - Extract from the Oxford Textbook of Medical Mycology.
Learn more about fungus, including infections and diseases, with a carefully curated selection of chapters and articles from Oxford University Press below.
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Introduction to medical mycology
by David W. Warnock
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by Marc Pihet, Jacqueline Carrere, Bernard Cimon, Dominique Chabasse, Laurence Delhaes, Françoise Symoens, and Jean-Philippe Bouchara
from Medical Mycology |
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by Laura Whitney and Tihana Bicanic
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by Philippa C. Matthews
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by Takashi Sugita, Takashi Yamazaki, Koichi Makimura, Otomi Cho, Shin Yamada, Hiroshi Ohshima, and Chiaki Mukai
from Medical Mycology |
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by Andrew Davies and Ilora Finlay
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by David Hibbett |
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Nosocomial Candidiasis: Antifungal Stewardship and the Importance of Rapid Diagnosis
by Michael A. Pfaller and Mariana Castanheira
from Medical Mycology |