Diagnosis of Invasive Fungal Diseases, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Journal of Fungi (ISSN 2309-608X). This special issue belongs to the section "Fungal Pathogenesis and Disease Control".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 2473
Special Issue Editor
Interests: diagnosis and management of infectious complications in immunocompromised patients, especially invasive fungal diseases; prevention of infectious diseases in procedures such as post-transplantation vaccination
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Dear Colleagues,
Invasive fungal diseases are on the rise. The biggest reason for this is that the number of patients with a reduced immune function, such as patients with acute leukemia or undergoing transplantation, is increasing, and they suffer from invasive fungal diseases as opportunistic infections while surviving for a long time. Another reason is that in the past, diagnosis was only possible with extremely limited methods such as culture tests, and the yield of this test method was low, so diagnoses were not performed properly or promptly. New diagnostic methods such as PCR, MALDI-TOF, and lateral flow devices were developed, and methods that can use specimens other than blood—for example, bronchoalveolar lavage, urinalysis, etc.—are being tested. In addition, by applying these methods clinically, fungal diseases can be better understood and treated early. In addition, a kit that can not only diagnose fungal diseases but can also check antifungal resistance at the same time as diagnosis is being developed. The development and application of this new diagnostic method will lead to the early detection of invasive fungal diseases, which will lead to the early initiation of appropriate antifungal drugs, thereby improving patients’ outcomes.
This Special Issue introduces methods that were recently developed or are being developed for diagnosing invasive fungal diseases and shares the experiences of each hospital and center that have applied these methods clinically.
Dr. Dong-Gun Lee
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- invasive fungal diseases
- new diagnostic methods
- antifungal resistance
- PCR
- rapid kit
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