Advances in Fungal Infection

Dear Colleagues,

The incidence of fungal infections has increased in recent decades, predominantly among immunosuppressed patients. Only four classes of antifungal drugs are currently used in clinical practice for treatment of invasive fungal infections. With treatment of patients with antifungal drugs, resistance is evolving in pathogenic fungi, which is an emerging concern worldwide. Candida glabrata resistance to echinocandins and azole resistance to Aspergillus spp. have been reported globally; these fungi cause infections with high mortality rates. In addition, the number of infections caused by emerging fungi that are resistant to the limited number of antifungal drugs is also rising. Identification of antifungal susceptibility for clinical fungal isolates affects the choice of antifungal drugs to be used and patients’ survival. The aim of this issue is to shed light on the epidemiology of antifungal resistance, the prevalence of emerging fungal infections, and new diagnostic approaches for identification and drug resistance fungi.

Dr. Nahid Kondori
Guest Editor

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