Fungal Diseases News

Nearly half of patients who received a diagnosis code of “unspecified mycosis” had positive laboratory test results for a specific fungal disease, with the most common being invasive candidiasis, researchers found.

Shortcomings in hospital linen reprocessing, delivery and intake were identified as a potential route of contamination in a health care-associated mucormycosis outbreak reported in Arkansas.

Three species of soil fungi, known to cause lung infections, have been found in U.S. states outside of what was historically accounted for by the CDC in 1969, according to a study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

WASHINGTON — More than half of patients being treated with ibrexafungerp for challenging fungal diseases and limited treatment options saw complete or partial treatment response, according to data presented at IDWeek.

Deaths from fungal infections increased in the United States in 2020 and 2021 compared with previous years, with Aspergillus and Candida infections driving COVID-19-associated fungal deaths, researchers found.

Room surfaces near patients colonized with Candida auris were commonly re-contaminated within hours of cleaning or disinfection, according to findings presented at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Spring Meeting.

A multipronged intervention that consisted of a two-part surveillance program and rapid investigations led to a “swift identification and containment” of Candida auris in part of California, researchers wrote.

A new report provides the first evidence that pan-resistant strains of Candida auris may have been transmitted in U.S. hospitals, researchers said.

Researchers isolated Candida auris from a salt marsh and sandy beach in the Andaman Islands, suggesting that before its recognition as a human pathogen, it existed as an environmental fungus, they said.

Patients with COVID-19-associated pulmonary aspergillosis, or CAPA, experience worse outcomes than COVID-19 patients who do not have the fungal infection, according to study results published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.