Youbao Zhao, Leixin Ye, Fujie Zhao, Lanyue Zhang, Zhenguo Lu, Tianxin Chu, Siyu Wang, Zhanxiang Liu, Yukai Sun, Min Chen, Guojian Liao, Chen Ding, Yingchun Xu, Wanqing Liao, Linqi Wang
BACKGROUND: Emerging fungal pathogens pose important threats to global public health. The World Health Organization has responded to the rising threat of traditionally neglected fungal infections by developing a Fungal Priority Pathogens List (FPPL). Taking the highest-ranked fungal pathogen in the FPPL, Cryptococcus neoformans, as a paradigm, we review progress made over the past two decades on its global burden, its clinical manifestation and management of cryptococcal infection, and its antifungal resistance...
March 17, 2023: Infectious Diseases of Poverty