The Consequences of Our Changing Environment on Life Threatening and Debilitating Fungal Diseases in Humans

Environmental Isolation of Candida auris from the Coastal Wetlands of Andaman Islands, India

(2021) Parth Arora et al.   mBio

Earliest case of Candida auris infection imported in 2007 in Europe from India prior to the 2009 description in Japan

(2021) Marie Desnos-Ollivier et al.   JOURNAL DE MYCOLOGIE MEDICALE

Wetter climates select for higher immune gene diversity in resident, but not migratory, songbirds

(2020) Emily A. O'Connor et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Global ecosystem thresholds driven by aridity

(2020) Miguel Berdugo et al.   SCIENCE

The global epidemiology of emerging Histoplasma species in recent years

(2020) Anderson Messias Rodrigues et al.   STUDIES IN MYCOLOGY

The negative cofactor 2 complex is a key regulator of drug resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus

(2020) Takanori Furukawa et al.   Nature Communications

COVID-19 Associated Pulmonary Aspergillosis

(2020) Andreas L.E. van Arkel et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Evolution of virulence-related phenotypes of Sporothrix brasiliensis isolates from patients with chronic sporotrichosis and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

(2020) Ingrid Ludmila Rodrigues Cruz et al.   BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought

(2020) A. Park Williams et al.   SCIENCE

Emergence of an equatorial mode of climate variability in the Indian Ocean

(2020) Pedro N. DiNezio et al.   Science Advances

An Analysis of Climate Impacts on Herbicide, Insecticide, and Fungicide Expenditures

(2020) Lauren A. Rhodes et al.   Agronomy-Basel

Climate change drives increase in modeled HIV prevalence

(2020) Rachel E. Baker   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Climate change impacts on soil salinity in agricultural areas

(2020) Dennis L. Corwin   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

Confronting and mitigating the risk of COVID-19 Associated Pulmonary Aspergillosis (CAPA)

(2020) Darius Armstrong-James et al.   EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL

Human influence on joint changes in temperature, rainfall and continental aridity

(2020) Céline J. W. Bonfils et al.   Nature Climate Change

Climate change impact on flood and extreme precipitation increases with water availability

(2020) Hossein Tabari   Scientific Reports

Fungal factors involved in host immune evasion, modulation and exploitation during infection

(2020) Annika König et al.   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

A pseudo‐outbreak of Rhinocladiella similis in a bronchoscopy unit of a tertiary care teaching hospital in London, United Kingdom

(2020) Alireza Abdolrasouli et al.   MYCOSES

Aspergillosis, Avian Species and the One Health Perspective: The Possible Importance of Birds in Azole Resistance

(2020) Aryse Martins Melo et al.   Microorganisms

The Rise of Valley Fever: Prevalence and Cost Burden of Coccidioidomycosis Infection in California

(2019) Leslie Wilson et al.   International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Insights into the Unique Nature of the East Asian Clade of the Emerging Pathogenic Yeast Candida auris

(2019) Rory M. Welsh et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Assessing evolutionary risks of resistance for new antimicrobial therapies

(2019) Michael A. Brockhurst et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Fungal evolution: major ecological adaptations and evolutionary transitions

(2019) Miguel A. Naranjo‐Ortiz et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Twentieth-century hydroclimate changes consistent with human influence

(2019) Kate Marvel et al.   NATURE

Mutations in hmg1, Challenging the Paradigm of Clinical Triazole Resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus

(2019) Jeffrey M. Rybak et al.   mBio

The escalating global burden of serious health-related suffering: projections to 2060 by world regions, age groups, and health conditions

(2019) Katherine E Sleeman et al.   Lancet Global Health

Scientists’ warning to humanity: microorganisms and climate change

(2019) Ricardo Cavicchioli et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

On the Emergence of Candida auris: Climate Change, Azoles, Swamps, and Birds

(2019) Arturo Casadevall et al.   mBio

Climate drivers of hospitalizations for mycoses in Brazil

(2019) Fabrício Brito Silva et al.   Scientific Reports

Real-world evidence of glycemic control among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in India: the TIGHT study

(2019) Surendra S Borgharkar et al.   BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care

On the Emergence of Cryptococcus gattii in the Pacific Northwest: Ballast Tanks, Tsunamis, and Black Swans

(2019) David M. Engelthaler et al.   mBio

Historical change of El Niño properties sheds light on future changes of extreme El Niño

(2019) Bin Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Impacts of a changing earth on microbial dynamics and human health risks in the continuum between beach water and sand

(2019) Chelsea J. Weiskerger et al.   WATER RESEARCH

A reversal in global terrestrial stilling and its implications for wind energy production

(2019) Zhenzhong Zeng et al.   Nature Climate Change

Global epidemiology of emerging Candida auris

(2019) Johanna Rhodes et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

The Expansion of Modern Agriculture and Global Biodiversity Decline: An Integrated Assessment

(2018) Bruno Lanz et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Changes in the epidemiological landscape of invasive candidiasis

(2018) Frederic Lamoth et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Challenges in the diagnosis and treatment of mucormycosis

(2018) A Skiada et al.   MEDICAL MYCOLOGY

Airway persistence by the emerging multi-azole-resistant Rasamsonia argillacea complex in cystic fibrosis

(2018) Alireza Abdolrasouli et al.   MYCOSES

Invasive aspergillosis in patients admitted to the intensive care unit with severe influenza: a retrospective cohort study

(2018) Alexander F A D Schauwvlieghe et al.   Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Climate change and predicted trend of fungal keratitis in Egypt

(2018) A. Saad Hussein et al.   EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN HEALTH JOURNAL

Investigating the Relationship Between Climate and Valley Fever (Coccidioidomycosis)

(2018) Elizabeth A. Weaver et al.   EcoHealth

Phenotypic Variability Correlates with Clinical Outcome in Cryptococcus Isolates Obtained from Botswanan HIV/AIDS Patients

(2018) Kenya E. Fernandes et al.   mBio

Notes from the Field: Increase in Coccidioidomycosis — Arizona, October 2017–March 2018

(2018) Carla P. Bezold et al.   MMWR-MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REPORT

Soil microbial respiration adapts to ambient temperature in global drylands

(2018) Marina Dacal et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Cross-biome patterns in soil microbial respiration predictable from evolutionary theory on thermal adaptation

(2018) Mark A. Bradford et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Update on the Epidemiology of coccidioidomycosis in the United States

(2018) Orion Z McCotter et al.   MEDICAL MYCOLOGY

Air Pollution and Climate Change Effects on Allergies in the Anthropocene: Abundance, Interaction, and Modification of Allergens and Adjuvants

(2017) Kathrin Reinmuth-Selzle et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Intensified dust storm activity and Valley fever infection in the southwestern United States

(2017) Daniel Q. Tong et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Global burden of disease of HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis: an updated analysis

(2017) Radha Rajasingham et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

How to know the fungi: combining field inventories and DNA-barcoding to document fungal diversity

(2017) Camille Truong et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Thermophilic Fungi to Dominate Aflatoxigenic/Mycotoxigenic Fungi on Food under Global Warming

(2017) Robert Paterson et al.   International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Filamentous fungal carbon catabolite repression supports metabolic plasticity and stress responses essential for disease progression

(2017) Sarah R. Beattie et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Seasonal clustering of sinopulmonary mucormycosis in patients with hematologic malignancies at a large comprehensive cancer center

(2017) Shobini Sivagnanam et al.   Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control

Notes from the Field: Increase in Coccidioidomycosis — California, 2016

(2017) Gail Sondermeyer Cooksey et al.   MMWR-MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REPORT

AIDS-Related Endemic Mycoses in Western Cape, South Africa, and Clinical Mimics: A Cross-Sectional Study of Adults With Advanced HIV and Recent-Onset, Widespread Skin Lesions

(2017) Ilan S Schwartz et al.   Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Simultaneous Emergence of Multidrug-ResistantCandida aurison 3 Continents Confirmed by Whole-Genome Sequencing and Epidemiological Analyses

(2016) Shawn R. Lockhart et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Regional climate change and national responsibilities

(2016) James Hansen et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Histoplasmosis

(2016) Lawrence J. Wheat et al.   INFECTIOUS DISEASE CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA

Cutaneous mucormycosis secondary to penetrative trauma

(2016) Bilal Zahoor et al.   INJURY-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE CARE OF THE INJURED

Global access to antifungal therapy and its variable cost

(2016) Matthew Kneale et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Candidalysin is a fungal peptide toxin critical for mucosal infection

(2016) David L. Moyes et al.   NATURE

Coccidioidomycosis-Associated Deaths in California, 2000–2013

(2016) Gail L. Sondermeyer et al.   PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTS

Impact of urban air pollution on the allergenicity of Aspergillus fumigatus conidia: Outdoor exposure study supported by laboratory experiments

(2016) Naama Lang-Yona et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Local Population Structure and Patterns of Western Hemisphere Dispersal for Coccidioides spp., the Fungal Cause of Valley Fever

(2016) David M. Engelthaler et al.   mBio

Thermal Restriction as an Antimicrobial Function of Fever

(2016) Arturo Casadevall   PLoS Pathogens

Species in the Cryptococcus gattii Complex Differ in Capsule and Cell Size following Growth under Capsule-Inducing Conditions

(2016) Kenya E. Fernandes et al.   mSphere

Histoplasmosis-Associated Hospitalizations in the United States, 2001–2012

(2016) Kaitlin Benedict et al.   Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Cryptococcus neoformans Intracellular Proliferation and Capsule Size Determines Early Macrophage Control of Infection

(2016) Aleksandra Bojarczuk et al.   Scientific Reports

Sporothrix brasiliensisoutbreaks and the rapid emergence of feline sporotrichosis

(2015) Karine Ortiz Sanchotene et al.   MYCOSES

Anthropogenic warming has increased drought risk in California

(2015) Noah S. Diffenbaugh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hospital morbidity due to paracoccidioidomycosis in Brazil (1998-2006)

(2015) Ziadir Francisco Coutinho et al.   TROPICAL MEDICINE & INTERNATIONAL HEALTH

Trends in bacterial and fungal keratitis in South India, 2002–2012

(2014) Prajna Lalitha et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Valley Fever: Finding New Places for an Old Disease: Coccidioides immitis Found in Washington State Soil Associated With Recent Human Infection

(2014) Anastasia P. Litvintseva et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Galleria mellonella Model Identifies Highly Virulent Strains among All Major Molecular Types of Cryptococcus gattii

(2014) Carolina Firacative et al.   PLoS One

Paracoccidioidomycosis in a western Brazilian Amazon State: Clinical-epidemiologic profile and spatial distribution of the disease

(2014) Gabriel de Deus Vieira et al.   Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Global diversity and geography of soil fungi

(2014) L. Tedersoo et al.   SCIENCE

Altered sterol composition renders yeast thermotolerant

(2014) L. Caspeta et al.   SCIENCE

Increased variability of tornado occurrence in the United States

(2014) H. E. Brooks et al.   SCIENCE

No pause in the increase of hot temperature extremes

(2014) Sonia I. Seneviratne et al.   Nature Climate Change

Solar ultraviolet radiation in a changing climate

(2014) Craig E. Williamson et al.   Nature Climate Change

Use of benzo analogs to enhance antimycotic activity of kresoxim methyl for control of aflatoxigenic fungal pathogens

(2014) Jong H. Kim et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Fungus That Causes Histoplasmosis May Be Endemic in Montana

(2013)   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Cryptococcus neoformans Ex Vivo Capsule Size Is Associated With Intracranial Pressure and Host Immune Response in HIV-associated Cryptococcal Meningitis

(2013) Emma J. Robertson et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Neurovirulence of Cryptococcus neoformans determined by time course of capsule accumulation and total volume of capsule in the brain

(2013) A. Pool et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROVIROLOGY

Aspergillus fumigatus—What Makes the Species a Ubiquitous Human Fungal Pathogen?

(2013) Kyung J. Kwon-Chung et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Macrofungal diversity in Colombian Amazon forests varies with regions and regimes of disturbance

(2012) Carlos A. López-Quintero et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Global burden of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis as a sequel to pulmonary tuberculosis

(2012) David Denning et al.   BULLETIN OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Molecular Epidemiology of Aspergillus fumigatus Isolates Harboring the TR34/L98H Azole Resistance Mechanism

(2012) S. M. T. Camps et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Species Identification and Antifungal Susceptibility Testing of Candida Bloodstream Isolates from Population-Based Surveillance Studies in Two U.S. Cities from 2008 to 2011

(2012) S. R. Lockhart et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Necrotizing Cutaneous Mucormycosis after a Tornado in Joplin, Missouri, in 2011

(2012) Robyn Neblett Fanfair et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Ectomycorrhizal fungal sporocarp diversity and discovery of new taxa in Dicymbe monodominant forests of the Guiana Shield

(2011) Terry W. Henkel et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Zygomycosis in Europe: analysis of 230 cases accrued by the registry of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology (ECMM) Working Group on Zygomycosis between 2005 and 2007

(2011) A. Skiada et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Urbanisation and infectious diseases in a globalised world

(2011) Emilie Alirol et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Ozone depletion and climate change: impacts on UV radiation

(2011) R. L. McKenzie et al.   PHOTOCHEMICAL & PHOTOBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Coccidioidomycosis Incidence in Arizona Predicted by Seasonal Precipitation

(2011) James D. Tamerius et al.   PLoS One

Genome Variation in Cryptococcus gattii, an Emerging Pathogen of Immunocompetent Hosts

(2011) C. A. D'Souza et al.   mBio

Azole antifungal resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus: 2008 and 2009

(2010) A. Bueid et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Antifungal Susceptibility Testing of Candida Isolates from the Candida Surveillance Study

(2010) G. M. Lyon et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Species Recognition and Clinical Relevance of the Zygomycetous Genus Lichtheimia (syn. Absidia Pro Parte, Mycocladus)

(2010) A. Alastruey-Izquierdo et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Effects of season and weather on blastomycosis in dogs: Northern Wisconsin, USA

(2010) Dennis J. Baumgardner et al.   MEDICAL MYCOLOGY

Trends in Fungal Keratitis in the United States, 2001 to 2007

(2010) Emily W. Gower et al.   OPHTHALMOLOGY

First Description of a Cluster of Acute/Subacute Paracoccidioidomycosis Cases and Its Association with a Climatic Anomaly

(2010) Ligia Vizeu Barrozo et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Emergence and Pathogenicity of Highly Virulent Cryptococcus gattii Genotypes in the Northwest United States

(2010) Edmond J. Byrnes et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Possible Environmental Origin of Resistance of Aspergillus fumigatus to Medical Triazoles

(2009) E. Snelders et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The ecology of the Zygomycetes and its impact on environmental exposure

(2009) M. Richardson   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Ecological Niche Modeling of Cryptococcus gattii in British Columbia, Canada

(2009) Sunny Mak et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES

Climate change and respiratory disease: European Respiratory Society position statement

(2009) J. G. Ayres et al.   EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL

Climate and acute/subacute paracoccidioidomycosis in a hyper-endemic area in Brazil

(2009) L. V Barrozo et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Vertebrate Endothermy Restricts Most Fungi as Potential Pathogens

(2009) Vincent A. Robert et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Mortality due to systemic mycoses as a primary cause of death or in association with AIDS in Brazil: a review from 1996 to 2006

(2009) Marli Prado et al.   MEMORIAS DO INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ

Candida aurissp. nov., a novel ascomycetous yeast isolated from the external ear canal of an inpatient in a Japanese hospital

(2009) Kazuo Satoh et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY

Aspergillus flavus: an emerging non-fumigatus Aspergillusspecies of significance

(2009) Suganthini Krishnan et al.   MYCOSES

Carpe noctem: the importance of bats as bioindicators

(2009) G Jones et al.   Endangered Species Research

Fungal keratitis in the United Kingdom 2003–2005

(2008) S J Tuft et al.   EYE

Secular Trends in Candidemia-Related Hospitalization in the United States, 2000–2005

(2008) Marya D. Zilberberg et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Adaptive Melanin Response of the Soil Fungus Aspergillus niger to UV Radiation Stress at “Evolution Canyon”, Mount Carmel, Israel

(2008) Natarajan Singaravelan et al.   PLoS One

Commonness, population depletion and conservation biology

(2007) K GASTON et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION