Current Progress in Medical Mycology

Description

Infections caused by fungi have recently attracted the attention of both clinicians and basic researchers given the heavy burden they represent for any health system. The mortality and morbidity rates associated to mycosis are progressively rising simply because some of these diseases are still neglected by health-care workers and due to the changing sensitivity to antifungal drugs displayed by these organisms. In this book, both researchers and clinicians working in the medical mycology field explore the most recent literature about specific mycosis; placing in one concise chapter thoroughly revisions of the current knowledge on virulence factors, recognition by immune cells, immunoevasion, epidemiology, new diagnosis trends and therapeutics. This book is recommended to researchers, physicians and students interested in medical mycology. Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Introduction to Medical Mycology (Arunaloke Chakrabarti, Nandini Sethuraman)....Pages 1-27 Antifungal Drugs (Beatriz Bustamante, Jose A. Hidalgo, Pablo E. Campos)....Pages 29-89 Candida and Candidiasis (Luis A. Pérez-García, José R. Macías-Pérez, Ángel León-Buitimea, Brenda Alvarado-Sánchez, Mayra D. Ramírez-Quijas, María J. Navarro-Arias et al.)....Pages 91-118 When Aspergillus fumigatus Meets the Man (Sarah Sze Wah Wong, Jean-Paul Latgé)....Pages 119-137 Histoplasma capsulatum and Histoplasmosis (Chelsea Bueter, George S. Deepe, Chad A. Rappleye)....Pages 139-167 Cryptococcus and Cryptococcosis (Rodrigo Maciel da C. Godinho, Débora L. Oliveira, Priscila C. Albuquerque, Fabianno F. Dutra, Rodrigo de Almeida-Paes, Marcio L. Rodrigues et al.)....Pages 169-214 Pneumocystis jirovecii and Pneumocystosis (Olga Matos, Ana Luisa Tomás, Francisco Antunes)....Pages 215-254 Coccidioides and Coccidioidomycosis (Marcus M. Teixeira, Bridget M. Barker)....Pages 255-280 Paracoccidioides spp. and Paracoccidioidomycosis (Gustavo A. Niño-Vega, Emma Camacho, Ángela Restrepo Moreno, Angela María Tobón, Beatriz L. Gómez, Marcus M. Teixeira et al.)....Pages 281-308 Sporothrix and Sporotrichosis (Leila M. Lopes-Bezerra, Héctor M. Mora-Montes, Alexandro Bonifaz)....Pages 309-331 Fonsecaea and Chromoblastomycosis (Peiying Feng, G. S. de Hoog)....Pages 333-353 Mycetoma (Ahmed Hassan Fahal)....Pages 355-380 Dermatophytes and Dermatophytosis (Roberto Arenas, María del Rocío Reyes-Montes, Esperanza Duarte-Escalante, María Guadalupe Frías-De-León, Erick Martínez-Herrera)....Pages 381-425