Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenges of Human Fungal Infections
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 (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 33460
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Interests: applied laboratory medicine; infectious diseases; clinical microbiology; fungal infections; diagnosis and monitoring of fungal infections; antifungal agents
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Interests: paediatric haematology oncology; infectious complications in the immunocompromised host; invasive fungal infections; antifungal agents; children
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Interests: hematologic malignancies; thrombosis; complement; cellular therapy; lymphoma; myeloma; COVID-19
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fungal infections, either invasive and disseminated or cutaneous and superficial, are an important and increasing cause of morbidity. The first category consists of a major factor of severe disease and mortality, especially in immunocompromised and debilitated patients. However, the second category can also cause serious concerns in matters of human health, not forgetting that it is extremely widespread.
Several causes like the broadly used chemotherapies and immunosuppressive treatments, hematopoietic cell transplantation and novel cellular therapies, several iatrogenic interventions, the aging of the population, severe underlying diseases, massive population movements and excessive travelling, changing of social habits, broad climate change, epidemiology alteration in terms of fungal species and antifungal sensitivities, other infections, co-infections, and super-infections are all parts of a dense net of factors that make fungal infections an important issue of public health at both the community and hospital level.
In addition, fungi are a complex and greatly evolved kingdom of living entities that are very adept at surviving and expanding. The eukaryotic organisation and the resistance of their cells and the multitude of invading and escaping mechanisms they possess make them a serious opponent in terms of disease.
Due to all the above reasons, there are important challenges in the diagnostic procedure but also in the treatment of the relevant infections in both the paediatric and the adult population. Since the onset of the COVID pandemic, we have realised once more how vulnerable we become when a second invader, like the fungi, takes advantage of the exhausting of our organism's resistance resources and how much more difficult diagnosis and treatment can become.
This Special Issue has the ambition of focussing on the available and evolving diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for the two big types of fungal infection (invasive or superficial), investigating and presenting the challenges that exist in these matters, and studying at least some of the factors that, as already described, turn fungi into a serious concern.
Both reviews and original articles are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Timoleon-Achilleas Vyzantiadis
Prof. Dr. Athanasios Tragiannidis
Dr. Eleni Gavriilaki
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- invasive fungal infections
- systemic fungal infections
- superficial fungal infections
- mycoses
- antifungal agents
- treatment of fungal infections
- diagnosis of fungal infections
- monitoring of fungal infections
- epidemiology
- antifungal resistance
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