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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Karan Srisurapanont, Bhoowit Lerttiendamrong, Tanaporn Meejun, Jaedvara Thanakitcharu, Kasama Manothummetha, Achitpol Thongkam, Nipat Chuleerarux, Anawin Sanguankeo, Lucy X Li, Surachai Leksuwankun, Nattapong Langsiri, Pattama Torvorapanit, Navaporn Worasilchai, Rongpong Plongla, Chatphatai Moonla, Saman Nematollahi, Olivia S Kates, Nitipong Permpalung
RATIONALE: The epidemiology and clinical impact of COVID-19-associated candidemia (CAC) remained uncertain, leaving gaps in understanding its prevalence, risk factors and outcomes. METHODS: A systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted by searching PubMed, Embase and Scopus for reports of CAC prevalence, risk factors and clinical outcomes up to June 18, 2024. The generalised linear mixed model was employed to determine the prevalence and 95% confidence intervals (CIs)...
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Bryan Ortiz, Manuel G Ballesteros-Monrreal, Juan Rosales-Tamashiro, Michelle Bush, Jon Salmanton-García, Gustavo Fontecha
BACKGROUND: Dermatophytosis, caused by dermatophytes, affects up to 25% of people globally, with higher rates observed in Africa and Asia. While these infections are usually superficial, they can become severe in immunocompromised individuals. Despite their high prevalence, scientific research on dermatophytes is limited and the epidemiological data available are insufficient. In addition, diagnostic methods are not standardised and there are challenges with resistance to antifungals...
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REVIEW
Understanding Global Access to Topical Onychomycosis Therapy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
S M Nasereddin, J L Li, O S Malallah, G R McClelland, D Morgan, S Meadowcroft, A Bolhuis, S A Jones
INTRODUCTION: Equal access to medicines is crucial to ensuring public health, but access is difficult to measure, especially for infections where changes in infective species make treatment choices highly dynamic. This study investigated if the combination of infection prevalence with medicine efficacy and regulatory availability could access medicines access of topical onychomycosis medicines. METHODS: Two databases, PubMed and Web of Science, were used to identify relevant information published between 1990 and 2019...
September 2024: Mycoses
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Catja Alcoat, Elisabeth M M Christensen, Gregor B E Jemec, Kenneth Skov, Ditte M L Saunte
BACKGROUND: Tinea pedis is one of the most prevalent superficial fungal infections. Initial antifungal treatment is often acquired over-the-counter (OTC) without previous consultation with a physician. OBJECTIVE: Lately, increasing antifungal terbinafine resistance has been documented in Denmark and globally and it is therefore of interest to assess how Danish pharmacies advise customers with tinea pedis. METHODS: One hundred Danish pharmacies were randomly selected and an employee interviewed from each...
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Paul Jankowski, Emma R Lee, John Embil, Yoav Keynan, Paul J McLaren
BACKGROUND: Blastomycosis is a pulmonary disease caused by Blastomyces spp., a group of pathogenic dimorphic fungi endemic to a number of geographic regions, specifically Manitoba and northwestern Ontario, Canada. Immunosuppression is a major risk factor affecting disease susceptibility, yet host immunity is not well understood. Genetic immunodeficiencies can also influence disease, with variants in IL6, GATA2 and VDBP shown to influence susceptibility. Additional genetic factors in disease susceptibility and severity remain undetected...
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Phemelo Mechidi, Jessica Holien, Danilla Grando, Tien Huynh, Ann C Lawrie
BACKGROUND: Terbinafine is widely used to treat onychomycosis caused by dermatophyte fungi. Terbinafine resistance in recent years is causing concern. Resistance has so far been associated with single-nucleotide substitutions in the DNA sequence of the enzyme squalene epoxidase (SQLE) but how this affects SQLE functionality is not understood. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to understand newly discovered resistance in two Australian strains of Trichophyton interdigitale...
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Chichi Du, Mingming Ding, Lin Zhang, Guan Jiang
BACKGROUND: Onychomycosis (OM) is a common nail infection treated with amorolfine hydrochloride nail lacquer in China. Monitoring drug concentrations and using dermoscopy to evaluate treatment efficacy may provide new insights. OBJECTIVE: The study aims to analyse amorolfine concentrations in nails with mild to moderate OM, assess treatment outcomes using dermoscopy and explore factors influencing drug concentrations and efficacy. METHODS: Patients with mild to moderate OM confirmed by fungal microscopy were enrolled...
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COMPARATIVE STUDY
David Navarro-Pérez, Aroa Tardáguila-García, Sara García-Oreja, Diego León-Herce, Francisco Javier Álvaro-Afonso, José Luis Lázaro-Martínez
BACKGROUND: Several clinical signs in dermatoscopy are very characteristic of onychomycosis and can be a quick complement for the diagnosis of onychomycosis. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of dermatoscopy compared to microbiological culture and polymerase chain reaction (PCR), as well as the clinical signs associated with onychomycosis. METHODS: The clinical signs of 125 patients were assessed cross-sectionally using dermatoscopy, and a positive or negative result was assigned...
September 2024: Mycoses
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REVIEW
Mohammad Zeeshan, Saira Fatima, Joveria Farooqi, Rabiya Owais, Arsalan Ahmed, Kausar Jabeen, Afia Zafar
BACKGROUND: Chromoblastomycosis (CBM) is a chronic infection of skin and subcutaneous tissue. CBM cases have been reported in local literature from Pakistan with heterogenous demographic, diagnostic and therapeutic information. The objective of this study is to share the experience of CBM from a large tertiary care hospital laboratory in Pakistan. METHOD: This was a retrospective observational study. Histopathology and microbiology data of suspected CBM between 2016 and 2022 was retrieved...
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Purva Mathur, Sharad Srivastav, Arpan Kumar Thakur, Rasna Parveen, Mamta Puraswani, Ashish Kumar Srivastava, Arunaloke Chakrabarti, Camilla Rodrigues, Veeraraghavan Balaji, Pallab Ray, Manisha Biswal, Chand Wattal, Vimala Venkatesh, Nandini Sethuraman, Sanjay Bhattacharya, Vijaya Lakshmi Nag, Vibhor Tak, Bijayini Behera, Neeraj Goel, Jyoti Iravane, Sudipta Mukherjee, Raja Ray, Sanjeev K Singh, Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay, Joy Sarojini Michael, Bashir Ahmad Fomda, Juliah Chelliah, Anjali Shetty, Tadepalli Karuna, Aparna Ningombam, Subodh Kumar, Kapil Dev Soni, Sushma Sagar, Richa Aggrawal, Deepak Gupta, Gyaninder Pal Singh, Ashish Bindra, Kamran Farooque, Shashank Purwar, Sagar Khadanga, K E Vandana, Muralidhar Varma, Vijayshri Deotale, Padma Das, Ruchita Lohiya, Amber Prasad, Puneet Kumar Gupta, Balram Ji Omar, Ankit Aggarwal, Sherish Baqal, Khuraijam Ranjana Devi, L Chaoba Singh, Soumyadip Chatterji, Gaurav Goel, Satyam Mukherjee, Yamunadevi V Ramanathan, Aparna Sonowal, Prachi Verma, Ashoka Mahapatra, Vinaykumar Hallur, Ujjwala Nitin Gaikwad, Anudita Bhargava, Kanne Padmaja, Nagari Bheerappa, Vidhi Jain, Pradeep Bhatia, Kuldeep Singh, Daisy Khera, Neeraj Gupta, Hema Paul, Sheetal Verma, Zia Arshad, Ratinder Jhaj, Shikha Malik, M A Thirunarayan, Hirak Jyoti Raj, Prashant Gupta, Dandu Himanshu, Shivaprakash M Rudramurthy, Reema Nath, Renu Gur, Nari M Lyngdoh, Clarissa Lyngdoh, Sheela Devi, Shalini Malhotra, Rajni Gaind, Rushika Saksena, Rajni Sharma, Kamini Walia
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Candidaemia is a potentially life-threatening emergency in the intensive care units (ICUs). Surveillance using common protocols in a large network of hospitals would give meaningful estimates of the burden of candidaemia and central line associated candidaemia in low resource settings. We undertook this study to understand the burden and epidemiology of candidaemia in multiple ICUs of India, leveraging the previously established healthcare-associated infections (HAI) surveillance network...
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Salene Angelini Colombo, Jamile Ambrósio de Carvalho, Gustavo Canesso Bicalho, Danielle Ferreira de Magalhães Soares, Camila Stefanie Fonseca de Oliveira, Guilherme Campos Tavares, Anderson Messias Rodrigues, Maria Isabel de Azevedo
BACKGROUND: Zoonotic sporotrichosis caused by Sporothrix brasiliensis has become the main subcutaneous mycosis in Brazil. Minas Gerais (MG) is located in southeast Brazil and since 2015 has experienced an epidemic of zoonotic sporotrichosis. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to reconstruct the epidemiological scenario of sporotrichosis from S. brasiliensis in recent epizooty in the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte (MRBH), MG. METHODS: A total of 95 Sporothrix spp...
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Guanzhao Liang, Xiaofang Li, Ruoyu Li, Hai Wen, Jun Gu, Yuping Ran, Liyan Xi, Fuqiu Li, Qiangqiang Zhang, Cunwei Cao, Peiying Feng, Meng Fu, Yanping Jiang, Shanshan Li, Hongfang Liu, Zehu Liu, Xuelian Lv, Paride Abliz, Weihua Pan, Hong Sang, Xiaodong She, Dongmei Shi, Zhongsheng Tong, Aiping Wang, Ling Wang, Yuanyuan Xiao, Jie Yang, Lianjuan Yang, Jin Yu, Ping Zhan, Siping Zhang, Yu Zhang, Hongmei Zhu, Min Zhu, Ge Song, Xue Kong, Weida Liu
Antifungal-resistant dermatophytes (ARD) infection is a hotspot issue in clinical microbiology and the dermatology field. Trichophyton indotineae as the dominant species of dermatophyte with terbinafine-resistance or multidrug resistance, is easy to be missed detection clinically, which brings severe challenges to diagnosis and treatment. ARD infection cases have emerged in China, and it predicts a risk of transmission among human. Based on the existing medical evidence and research data, the Mycology Group of Combination of Traditional and Western Medicine Dermatology and Chinese Antifungal⁃Resistant Dermatophytoses Expert Consensus Group organized experts to make consensus on the management of the infection...
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nirmal Muthukumarasamy, Hiroyuki Suzuki
BACKGROUND: Mucormycosis is a rare but critical infection. Due to its rarity, there is scarce evidence about the longitudinal changes in the epidemiology of mucormycosis in the US. OBJECTIVES: We investigated the longitudinal epidemiology, detailed clinical characteristics, treatment and outcomes of patients with mucormycosis within the US Veterans Health Administration (VHA) over 20-year period. PATIENTS/METHODS: All adult patients who were admitted to an acute-care hospital with a diagnosis of mucormycosis within the VHA from January 2003 to December 2022...
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rodrigo Almeida-Paes, Camila Jantoro Guzman Lugones, Marcos Abreu Almeida, Marcel de Souza Borges Quintana, Maurício Sá Benevides-Freitas, Joyce Rodrigues Ribeiro, Dayvison Francis Saraiva Freitas, Priscila Marques de Macedo, Antonio Carlos Francesconi do Valle, Rosely Maria Zancopé-Oliveira, Maria Clara Gutierrez-Galhardo
Sporotrichosis diagnosis involves a series of analyses, including culture and antibody detection in serum samples. Serologic methods may sometimes yield false-negative or false-positive results, leading to inaccurate diagnoses. This study assessed specific patient groups in which antibody detection of different isotypes and subclasses may lack sensitivity. An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) with Sporothrix brasiliensis exoantigens was used to investigate IgM, IgG, IgG1, IgG2, IgG3, IgG4, IgA, IgA1 and IgA2 antibodies in human serum samples...
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Azadeh Bandegani, Mahdi Abastabar, Joobin Sharifisooraki, Zahra Abtahian, Narges Vaseghi, Sadegh Khodavaisy, Atefeh Fakharian, Soheila Khalilzadeh, Mohammad Reza Modaresi, Iman Haghani, Ali Ahmadi, Mona Ghazanfari, Reza Valadan, Hamid Badali
BACKGROUND: Cystic fibrosis (CF), an inherited autosomal recessive disorder, is linked with high morbidity and mortality rates due to bacteria, filamentous, yeast and black yeast-like fungi colonisation in the upper respiratory tract. Although Candida species are the most common fungi isolated from CF patients, azole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus (ARAf) is a big concern for invasive aspergillosis. Notably, the exact prevalences of Aspergillus species and the prevalence of ARAf isolates among Iranian CF patients have yet to be previously reported and are unknown...
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Arthur Pereira Dos Santos, Bárbara Casella Amorim, Danielle Gomes da Silva, Dality Keffelen Barros de Rodrigues, Ana Paula da Costa Marques, Antonio Luiz Dal Bello Gasparoto, Eliana da Costa Alvarenga de Brito, Wellington Santos Fava, Caroline Tieppo Flores de Oliveira, Ana Luiza Canassa, Crhistinne Cavalheiro Maymone Gonçalves, Antonio Jose Grande, Marcia de Souza Carvalho Melhem, Anamaria Mello Miranda Paniago, Cláudia Elizabeth Volpe-Chaves, James Venturini
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients in intensive care units (ICUs) were affected by invasive fungal infections, including aspergillosis, contributing to a high mortality rate. Diagnosing proven COVID-19-associated pulmonary aspergillosis (CAPA) requires clinical and radiological evaluations, along with laboratory testing of bronchoalveolar lavage samples or lung biopsies. However, these procedures and equipment are often inaccessible in developing countries or regions with limited resources, including Brazil...
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Maryam Salimi, Javad Javidnia, Mahdi Abastabar, Mohammad Reza Mobayen, Azam Moslemi, Golnar Rahimzadeh, Jamshid Yazdani Charati, Nahid Mirzaei Tirabadi, Seyedehzahra Nouranibaladezaei, Hassan Asghari, Behnam Sobouti, Mostafa Dahmardehei, Seyedmojtaba Seyedmousavi, Tahereh Shokohi
BACKGROUND: Burn patients are at high risk of developing secondary invasive fungal infections due to their compromised skin barrier, extensive use of antibiotics, and immunosuppression. OBJECTIVES: We investigated demographic characteristics and clinical factors associated with Candida infections in intensive care unit (ICU) burn patients, and the in vitro antifungal susceptibility of species of isolates. METHODS: A total of 353 burn patients admitted to three major ICUs of burn centers in Iran were evaluated between 2021 and 2023...
August 2024: Mycoses
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yago R Dalben, Jhully Pimentel, Simone B Maifrede, Jamile A Carvalho, Francisco O Bessa-Neto, Jean Fabrício S Gomes, Gustavo R Leite, Anderson M Rodrigues, Rodrigo Cayô, Tânia Regina Grão-Velloso, Sarah S Gonçalves
OBJECTIVES: Candida spp. is an opportunistic pathogen that causes superficial and invasive infections with nosocomial outbreaks without strict hygiene protocols. Herein, we assessed oral colonisation by Candida spp. in 209 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients between July 2021 and April 2022, conducting clinical, epidemiological, and microbiological characterisation of those developing oral or invasive candidiasis. METHODS: Initial oral swabs were collected within 24 h of admission in the ICU, followed by collections on Days 2, 4, 6 and 8...
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MULTICENTER STUDY
Criscuolo Marianna, Bonanni Matteo, Piciocchi Alfonso, Farina Francesca, Verga Luisa, Marchesi Francesco, Basilico Claudia, Del Principe Maria Ilaria, Tisi Maria Chiara, Cattaneo Chiara, Picardi Marco, Bonuomo Valentina, Fracchiolla Nicola, Candoni Anna, Perruccio Katia, Stanzani Marta, Larici Anna Rita, Sanguinetti Maurizio, Busca Alessandro, Pagano Livio
BACKGROUND: Invasive fungal infections (IFI) are a relevant cause of morbidity and mortality among patients with haematological neoplasms (HMs). Since 2002, a classification of IFI based on host factors, clinical and radiological features and mycological tests was published for research purpose. OBJECTIVES: These criteria are widely used in clinical practice to identify patients at risk for IFI. The aim of the study was to evaluate the clinical applicability of EORTC/MSG 2008 criteria for the diagnosis of IFI in daily practice...
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Qinglian Qin, Jinming Su, Jie Liu, Rongfeng Chen, Wudi Wei, Zongxiang Yuan, Shiyi Lai, Ran Duan, Jingzhen Lai, Li Ye, Hao Liang, Junjun Jiang
BACKGROUND: Fungal skin diseases are common skin diseases with a heterogeneous distribution worldwide. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to analyse the spatiotemporal trends in the burden of fungal skin diseases at global, regional, and national levels from 1990 to 2021. METHODS: Based on the data obtained from the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2021, we described the incident cases, prevalent cases, number of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), and corresponding age-standardised rates (ASRs) for fungal skin diseases in 1990 and 2021 by sex, age, socio-demographic index (SDI), 21 GBD regions, and 204 countries and territories...
August 2024: Mycoses
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