Epidemiology of Invasive Fungal Disease
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: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 1816
Special Issue Editor
Interests: pathology; diagnostics; infectious diseases
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fungal pathogens and infections are increasing all over the world and emerging as a global public health concern. Patients who develop invasive fungal infections generally have host defense impairment due to different reasons, including underlying health problems or a weakened immune system due to chronic lung disease, prior tuberculosis (TB), HIV, cancer, diabetes mellitus, or being critically ill patients in an intensive care unit. However, the at-risk population continues to expand due to many factors, including advancements in modern medicine and accessibility to therapies and interventions that impair the immune system, such as chemotherapy and immunotherapy for cancer, as well as solid organ transplantation. New groups at risk of IFD are constantly being identified, as was demonstrated by our global COVID-19 pandemic experience, in the same way that new pathogenic fungi are continuously being reported and new epidemiological landscapes are possible around the world. In this Special Issue, we will collect research on the actual global scenario of the epidemiology of invasive fungal disease related to the different at-risk populations or related to specific local outbreaks. Attention to antimicrobial resistance would also be an issue of epidemiologic concern.
Dr. Giuliana Lo Cascio
Guest Editor
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