Fungal Infection

I completed medical school and internal medicine residency in the years immediately before protease inhibitors against HIV reached the clinic.

LAS VEGAS – In this Healio Video Perspective from the ASCRS meeting, Rahul Pandit, MD, discusses the prospects of the HRT3 Rostock Cornea Module (Heidelberg Engineering), an in vivo corneal confocal microscope.

Antimicrobial stewardship has been defined as coordinated interventions designed to improve and measure appropriate use of antimicrobial agents by promoting the selection of optimal drug regimens.

Mucormycosis, a potentially life-threatening fungal infection, is adding to India’s COVID-19-related death toll.

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.

Fungal infection of the orbit is rare in the U.S., which may lead to misdiagnosis, according to a study presented at the virtual American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery annual meeting.

The landscape of invasive fungal infections (IFIs) is changing. Superficial mycoses account for much of the global prevalence, but IFIs are associated with a disproportionately high morbidity, mortality and economic burden.

Cannabis users were 3.5 times more likely to have a fungal infection than nonusers, according to an analysis of more than 20 million insurance claims published in Emerging Infectious Diseases. Although researchers were unable to establish causality between cannabis use and fungal infections, they said that their study adds to a growing body of evidence showing a link between the two.

Phenotype-guided dosing strategies can increase the proportion of patients with hematologic malignancies who achieve a therapeutic drug concentration of prophylactic voriconazole, according to results of two studies published in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics.

Researchers writing in Open Forum Infectious Diseases recently provided a snapshot of the antifungal pipeline, which includes some drugs with novel mechanisms of action to overcome resistance.