Background: Candida auris is a globally emerging yeast pathogen that has shown not only resistance to most anti-fungal drugs but also thermo-tolerance to temperatures higher than the mammalian’s body temperature. Although it has been only a decade since the fungus was identified, its spread of infections has been rapid and quasi-epidemics have been reported. Co-occurrences of the fungus infecti...

Medically important fungal infections can be broadly classified into superficial surface infections and invasive mycoses (Samaranayake and MacFarlane, 1990; Roemer and Krysan, 2014). Superficial surface infections include mucosal candidiasis, dermatophyte infections whereas invasive mycoses affect sterile body sites such as bloodstream, central nervous system, kidney, lungs, and liver. Rise of ...

introduction : the decreased level of immunity in human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infected patients increases their vulnerability to various opportunistic fungal infections. oral candidiasis has been found to be the most common fungal infection among hiv infected patients. the present study was conducted to evaluate the spectrum of various opportunistic fungal infections and their correlatio...

Systemic infections of humans with the fungal pathogen Candida albicans are associated with a high mortality rate. Currently, efficient treatment of these infections is hampered by the relatively low number of available antifungal drugs. We recently identified the small heat shock protein Hsp21 in C. albicans and demonstrated its fundamental role for environmental stress adaptation and fungal v...

background skin infectious diseases are common worldwide. epidemiologic studies lead to better understanding of disease profiles and health service organization. conclusions in our study fungal and viral infections were the most common infectious diseases. we think epidemiological studies to determine the burden of skin infections are useful for proper health care planning. results mean age of ...

Saprochaete capitata (S. capitata) is an opportunistic arthroconidial yeast-like fungus causing invasive infections in immunocompromised patients, mainly those with hematological malignancies and severe neutropenia. However, due to S. are extremely rare immunocompetent non-neutropenic patients. spp. microscopically characterized by arthroconidia hyaline-septated hyphae. known be intrinsically r...

COVID-19 disease is associated with a significant number of opportunistic infections, including invasive fungal infections such as mucormycosis. The prevalence the latter rare, estimated to be between 0.005 and 1.7 per million inhabitants. Risk factors include hematological diseases, Diabetes Mellitus poor metabolic control, solid organ transplantation, neutropenia, prolonged administration sys...

is a mucosal commensal organism capable of causing Candida albicans superficial (oral and vaginal thrush) infections in immune normal hosts, but is a major pathogen causing systemic and mucosal infections in immunocompromised individuals. Azoles have been very effective anti-fungal agents and the mainstay in treating opportunistic mold and yeast infections. Azole resistant strains have emerged ...

We report a case of Wegener's Granulomatosis (WG) associated with blastomycosis. This appears to be the first case report of WG co-existing with a tissue proven blastomycosis infection. The temporal correlation of the two conditions suggests that blastomycosis infection (and therefore possibly other fungal infections), may trigger the systemic granulomatous vasculitis in a predisposed individua...