List of WHO fungal priority pathogens
Appearance
WHO fungal priority pathogens are groups of pathogenic fungi that the World Health Organization deems in need of global attention.[1][2][3][4]
The list has three priority groups. In decreasing order of concern, they are: critical, high, and medium.[1][4]
Critical group
[edit]- Cryptococcus neoformans
- Candida auris
- Aspergillus fumigatus
- Candida albicans
High group
[edit]- Nakaseomyces glabrata (formerly Candida glabrata)
- Histoplasma spp.
- Eumycetoma causative agents, including:
- Acremonium falciform[7][8]
- Acremonium kiliense[7][8]
- Acremonium recifei[7][8]
- Aspergillus flavus[7][8]
- Aspergillus nidulans[7][8]
- Cladophialophora bantiana[7][8]
- Cladophialophora mycetomatis[7][8]
- Curvularia geniculata[7][8]
- Curvularia lunata[7][8][9][1]
- Cylindrocarpon cyanescens[7][8]
- Exophiala jeanselmei[7][8]
- Falciformispora senegalensis[1]
- Fusarium moniliforme[7][8]
- Fusarium solani[7][8]
- Glenospora clapieri[8]
- Leptosphaeria senegalensis[7][8][9]
- Leptosphaeria tompkinsii[7][8]
- Madurella grisea[7][8][9]
- Madurella mycetomatis[7][8][9]
- Microsporum audouinii[7][8]
- Microsporum canis[7][8]
- Neotestudina rosatii[7][8][9]
- Phaeoacremonium parasiticum[8]
- Phialophora cyanescens[8]
- Phialophora verrucosa[7][8]
- Scedosporium (ex. Pseudoalleschia) boydii[7][8][9]
- Pyrenochaeta mackinonii[7][8]
- Pyrenochaeta romeroi[7][8]
- Trichophyton rubrum[7][8]
- Zopfia rosatii[1]
- Mucorales
- Fusarium spp.
- Candida tropicalis
- Candida parapsilosis
- Nakaseomyces glabrata
- Histoplasma capsulatum
- Histoplasma capsulatum var. duboisii
- Acremonium falciforme
- Aspergillus flavus
- Aspergillus nidulans
- Cladophialophora bantiana
- Curvularia geniculata
- Curvularia lunata
- Fusarium solani
- Madurella grisea
- Madurella mycetomatis
- Microsporum audouinii
- Microsporum canis
- Phialophora verrucosa
- Pseudoallescheria boydii
- Trichophyton rubrum
- Candida tropicalis
Medium group
[edit]- Scedosporium spp., including:[11]
- Scedosporium americanum
- Scedosporium apiospermum
- Scedosporium aurantiacum
- Scedosporium boydii
- Scedosporium cereisporum
- Scedosporium deficiens
- Scedosporium dehoogii
- Scedosporium desertorum
- Scedosporium magalhaesii
- Scedosporium minutisporum
- Scedosporium prolificans[12]
- Scedosporium rarisporum
- Scedosporium sanyaense
- Lomentospora prolificans
- Coccidioides spp., including:[13]
- Pichia kudriavzevii (formerly Candida krusei)
- Cryptococcus gattii
- Talaromyces marneffei
- Pneumocystis jirovecii
- Paracoccidioides spp., including:[14]
- Scedosporium prolificans
- Lomentospora prolificans
- Coccidioides immitis
- Pichia kudriavzevii
- Cryptococcus gattii
- Talaromyces marneffei
- Pneumocystis jirovecii
- Paracoccidioides brasiliensis
- Paracoccidioides lutzii
References
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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Estrada, Roberto; Chávez-López, Guadalupe; Estrada-Chávez, Guadalupe; López-Martínez, Rubén; Welsh, Oliverio (July 2012). "Eumycetoma". Clinics in Dermatology. 30 (4): 389–396. doi:10.1016/j.clindermatol.2011.09.009. ISSN 1879-1131. PMID 22682186.
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- ↑ Konsoula, Afroditi; Tsioutis, Constantinos; Markaki, Ioulia; Papadakis, Michail; Agouridis, Aris P.; Spernovasilis, Nikolaos (2022-06-29). "Lomentospora prolificans: An Emerging Opportunistic Fungal Pathogen". Microorganisms. 10 (7): 1317. doi:10.3390/microorganisms10071317. ISSN 2076-2607. PMC 9316904. PMID 35889036.
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