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Invasive fungal pathogens

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2023
Increased focus on invasive fungal pathogens promises to drive improvements in reporting, diagnostics and treatments. Tatum Anderson reports.
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Membrane Fusion‐Inspired Nanomaterials: Emerging Strategies for Infectious Disease and Cancer Diagnostics

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Membrane fusion‐inspired nanomaterials offer transformative potential in diagnostics by mimicking natural fusion processes to achieve highly sensitive and specific detection of disease biomarkers. This review highlights recent advancements in nanomaterial functionalization strategies, signal amplification systems, and stimuli‐responsive fusion designs,
Sojeong Lee, Khulan Nyamzaya, Jueun Han, Yejin Song, Jihee Lee, Jung Hyun Jo, Seungmin Bang, Eun‐Kyung Lim, Seungjoo Haam, Eunjung Kim   +9 more
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Genetic Structure and Triazole Antifungal Susceptibilities of Alternaria alternata from Greenhouses in Kunming, China

Microbiology Spectrum, 2022
Alternaria alternata is an opportunistic human fungal pathogen and a ubiquitous phytopathogen capable of causing diseases to >100 agricultural crops and ornamental plants. To control plant diseases caused by A.
Guangzhu Yang, Sai Cui, Nan Ma, Yuansha Song, Jun Ma, Wenjing Huang, Ying Zhang, Jianping Xu   +7 more
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Finished Genome of the Fungal Wheat Pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola Reveals Dispensome Structure, Chromosome Plasticity, and Stealth Pathogenesis [PDF]

, 2011
The plant-pathogenic fungus Mycosphaerella graminicola (asexual stage: Septoria tritici) causes septoria tritici blotch, a disease that greatly reduces the yield and quality of wheat.
Aerts, A., Antoniw, J., Bailey, A., Bluhm, B., Bowler, J., Bristow, J., Burgt, A., van der, Canto-Canché, B., Churchill, A.C.L., Conde-Ferràez, L., Cools, H.J., Coutinho, P.M., Crane, C.F., Csukai, M., Dehal, P., Dhillon, B., Donzelli, B., Foster, A.J., Geest, H.C., van de, Goodwin, S.B., Grigoriev, I.V., Grimwood, J., Ham, R.C.H.J., van, Hammond-Kosack, K.E., Hane, J.K., Henrissat, B., Kema, G.H.J., Kilian, A., Kobayashi, A.K., Koopmann, E., Kourmpetis, Y., Kuzniar, A., Lee, T.A.J., van der, Lindquist, E., Lombard, V., M'Barek, S., Ben, Maliepaard, C.A., Martins, N., Mehrabi, A., Nap, J.P.H., Oliver, R.P., Ponomarenko, A., Rudd, J.J., Salamov, A., Schmutz, J., Schouten, H.J., Shapiro, H., Stergiopoulos, I., Torriani, S.F.F., Tu, H., Vries, R.P., de, Waalwijk, C., Ware, S.B., Wiebenga, A., Wit, P.J.G.M., de, Wittenberg, A.H.J., Zwiers, L.H.   +56 more
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Population genomics and the evolution of virulence in the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans

bioRxiv, 2017
Cryptococcus neoformans is an opportunistic fungal pathogen that causes approximately 625,000 deaths per year from nervous system infections. Here, we leveraged a unique, genetically diverse population of C.
C. Desjardins, C. Giamberardino, S. Sykes, Chen-Hsin Yu, Jennifer L. Tenor, Yuan Chen, Timothy Yang, A. Jones, Sheng Sun, M. Haverkamp, J. Heitman, A. Litvintseva, J. Perfect, Christina A. Cuomo   +13 more
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Extracellular vesicles from the apoplastic fungal wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici

Fungal Biology and Biotechnology, 2020
The fungal pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici is a significant constraint to wheat production in temperate cropping regions around the world. Despite its agronomic impacts, the mechanisms allowing the pathogen to asymptomatically invade and grow in the ...
E. Hill, P. Solomon
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Clinical Use of S53P4 Bioactive Glass in the Treatment of Bone Defects and Infected Bone: A Systematic Review of the Quality of Clinical Outcomes and A Grade Assessment

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Bioactive glass (BAG) S53P4 is a synthetic bone substitute. Clinically it has been used in the treatment of benign bone tumor surgery, in spine surgery, in trauma surgery, in frontal sinus surgery, in diabetic foot osteomyelitis surgery, in mastoid surgery, in oral and maxillofacial surgery in more than 4000 patients, with excellent clinical long‐term ...
Sebastian CE Lindfors, Chris JJ Arts, Nina C Lindfors   +2 more
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Reactive oxygen species generated in chloroplasts contribute to tobacco leaf infection by the necrotrophic fungus Botrytis cinerea [PDF]

, 2017
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) play fundamental roles in plant responses to pathogen infection, including modulation of cell death processes and defense-related gene expression.
Bisaro, Fabiana, Carrillo, Nestor Jose, Krapp, Adriana del Rosario, Maiale, Santiago Javier, Pieckenstain, Fernando Luis, Rossi, Franco Rubén   +5 more
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Candida auris: The recent emergence of a multidrug-resistant fungal pathogen.

Medical Mycology, 2018
Candida auris is an emerging multidrug-resistant yeast that causes serious invasive infections with high mortality. It was first discovered in 2009, and since then, individual cases or outbreaks have been reported from over 20 countries on five ...
Kaitlin Forsberg, Kate Woodworth, M. Walters, E. Berkow, Brendan R. Jackson, T. Chiller, S. Vallabhaneni   +6 more
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Antimicrobial Efficacy of a Taurolidine‐Based Antimicrobial Compound on Contaminated Surfaces Simulated in a Standardized 4‐Field Test

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
As implantable medical devices become indispensable to modern medicine, a silent threat grows alongside them: device‐associated infections. Despite decades of antibiotic innovation, infection rates keep climbing, costing lives and billions in healthcare expenses.
Benito Baldauf, Hendrik Bonnemeier, Ernest W. Lau, Jana Hummel, Reinhard Vonthein, Ojan Assadian   +5 more
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