Recent advances and future directions in the understanding of mucormycosis

V Garre - Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Mucormycosis is an emerging infection caused by fungi of the order Mucorales that has
recently gained public relevance due to the high incidence among COVID-19 patients in …

Molecular mechanisms that govern infection and antifungal resistance in Mucorales

C Lax, FE Nicolás, E Navarro… - … and Molecular Biology …, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
SUMMARY The World Health Organization has established a fungal priority pathogens list
that includes species critical or highly important to human health. Among them is the order …

Mucorales and Mucormycosis: Recent Insights and Future Prospects

G Tahiri, C Lax, JT Cánovas-Márquez, P Carrillo-Marín… - Journal of Fungi, 2023 - mdpi.com
The classification of Mucorales encompasses a collection of basal fungi that have
traditionally demonstrated an aversion to modern genetic manipulation techniques. This …

Genetic manipulation in mucorales and new developments to study mucormycosis

C Lax, JT Cánovas-Márquez, G Tahiri… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The study of the Mucoralean fungi physiology is a neglected field that the lack of effective
genetic tools has hampered in the past. However, the emerging fungal infection caused by …

Mucormycosis amid COVID-19 crisis: pathogenesis, diagnosis, and novel treatment strategies to combat the spread

S Dogra, A Arora, A Aggarwal, G Passi… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The havoc unleashed by COVID-19 pandemic has paved way for secondary ominous fungal
infections like Mucormycosis. It is caused by a class of opportunistic pathogens from the …

RNAi-based functional genomics identifies new virulence determinants in mucormycosis

TA Trieu, MI Navarro-Mendoza, C Pérez-Arques… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Mucorales are an emerging group of human pathogens that are responsible for the lethal
disease mucormycosis. Unfortunately, functional studies on the genetic factors behind the …

Novel pathogenic Mucorales identified using the silkworm infection model

S Panthee, H Hamamoto, Y Nishiyama, A Paudel… - Journal of Fungi, 2021 - mdpi.com
Mucormycosis, a rare but highly fatal infection, is caused by fungi of the order Mucorales.
Due to their ubiquitous nature, reduced susceptibility to antifungals, acid tolerance, and …

Novel approaches in the management of mucormycosis

F Lamoth - Current Fungal Infection Reports, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Invasive mucormycosis (IM), caused by fungi of the order
Mucorales, is one of the deadliest fungal infection among hematologic cancer patients. Its …

Epidemiology, modern diagnostics, and the management of mucorales infections

D Pham, AR Howard-Jones, R Sparks, M Stefani… - Journal of Fungi, 2023 - mdpi.com
Mucormycosis is an uncommon, yet deadly invasive fungal infection caused by the
Mucorales moulds. These pathogens are a WHO-assigned high-priority pathogen group, as …

Understanding Mucormycoses in the Age of “omics”

AY Soare, TN Watkins, VM Bruno - Frontiers in Genetics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Mucormycoses are deadly invasive infections caused by several fungal species belonging
to the subphylum Mucoromycotina, order Mucorales. Hallmarks of disease progression …