Personalized Mycology

Dear Colleagues,

Almost a quarter of the world’s population has a chronic or long-lasting fungal infection (FI) or disease. An unsuspected, undetected and untreated FI in several medical settings may lead to a fatal outcome, so personalized approaches with timely patient screening and diagnostics are important. Additionally, a precise, simple, acceptable and user-friendly oriented concept with accurate laboratory diagnosis may provide better patient support. Since the fungal pathogenicity is complex, and some fungi have the capacity to form a biofilm which is crucial for establishing a chronic form of disease or failure of therapy, fungal positive or negative findings and differentiation between mycobiome, infection or disease complication is challenging. In this respect, the comprehensive comparative laboratory analyses and patient risk scoring could improve personalized mycology and disease control, as well as early prediction and accuracy of laboratory diagnosis, performed both with culture- or non-culture-based approaches.

Personalized mycology with prediction, prevention, personalization and patient’s participation evolving the landscape of fungal diagnostics is a state-of-the-art approach and a key pillar of the 21st century challenges in medical mycology. Therefore, we invite all medical doctors and scientists to submit papers with studies which support  this new research and health service model in clinical mycology.

Best wishes,
Prof. Dr. Valentina Arsic Arsenijevic
Guest Editor

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