Fungal Disease Reading List

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. 

Resource	Title
	Introduction to medical mycology   by David W. Warnock    from Oxford Textbook of Medical Mycology
	Occurrence and relevance of filamentous fungi in respiratory secretions of patients with cystic fibrosis — a review   by Marc Pihet, Jacqueline Carrere, Bernard Cimon, Dominique Chabasse, Laurence Delhaes, Françoise Symoens, and Jean-Philippe Bouchara    from Medical Mycology
	Antifungal stewardship   by Laura Whitney and Tihana Bicanic   from Antimicrobial Stewardship
	Fungal infections   by Philippa C. Matthews   from Tropical Medicine Notebook
	Comprehensive analysis of the skin fungal microbiota of astronauts during a half-year stay at the International Space Station   by Takashi Sugita, Takashi Yamazaki, Koichi Makimura, Otomi Cho, Shin Yamada, Hiroshi Ohshima, and Chiaki Mukai   from Medical Mycology
	Fungal infections   by Andrew Davies and Ilora Finlay   from Oral Care in Advanced Disease
	Evolution of Fungi   by David Hibbett
	Nosocomial Candidiasis: Antifungal Stewardship and the Importance of Rapid Diagnosis     by Michael A. Pfaller and Mariana Castanheira   from Medical Mycology