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(2952) Proposal to conserve the name <i>Coccidioides posadasii</i> against <i>Posadasia esferiformis</i>, <i>Coccidium posadasi</i>, <i>Pseudococcidioides mazzae</i>, <i>Geotrichum louisianoideum</i>, <i>Glenospora meteuropea</i>, <i>Glenospora meta

scientific article published in 2023

A New Lineage of Cryptococcus gattii (VGV) Discovered in the Central Zambezian Miombo Woodlands

scientific article published on 12 November 2019

A Population Genomics Approach to Assessing the Genetic Basis of Within-Host Microevolution Underlying Recurrent Cryptococcal Meningitis Infection.

scientific article published on 10 February 2017

A highly discriminatory multilocus microsatellite typing (MLMT) system for Penicillium marneffei

scientific article published on September 2004

A molecular perspective: biology of the emerging pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

scientific article

A non-invasive stress assay shows that tadpole populations infected with Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis have elevated corticosterone levels ⬇️

scientific article

A population genomics approach to assessing the genetic basis of within-host microevolution underlying recurrent cryptococcal meningitis infection

scientific article published on 26 October 2016

A retrospective ‘real-world’ cohort study of azole therapeutic drug monitoring and evolution of antifungal resistance in cystic fibrosis

scientific article published on 15 February 2021

A survey for Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in endangered and highly susceptible Vietnamese salamanders (Tylototriton spp.).

scientific article

A test for concordance between the multilocus genealogies of genes and microsatellites in the pathogenic fungus Coccidioides immitis

scientific article published on August 2000

Airway persistence by the emerging multi-azole-resistant Rasamsonia argillacea complex in cystic fibrosis.

scientific article published on 27 April 2018

Ambient Ultraviolet B Radiation and Prevalence of Infection by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Two Amphibian Species

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Amphibian chytridiomycosis outbreak dynamics are linked with host skin bacterial community structure.

scientific article published on 15 February 2018

Amphibian fungal panzootic causes catastrophic and ongoing loss of biodiversity

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

An infectious way to teach students about outbreaks

scientific article published on 9 December 2017

Assessing risk and guidance on monitoring of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Europe through identification of taxonomic selectivity of infection.

scientific article

Assessing the ability of swab data to determine the true burden of infection for the amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

scientific article

Author Correction: Genomic epidemiology of the UK outbreak of the emerging human fungal pathogen Candida auris.

scientific article published on 31 May 2018

Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection and lethal chytridiomycosis in caecilian amphibians (Gymnophiona).

scientific article

Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans sp. nov. causes lethal chytridiomycosis in amphibians

scientific article

Biogeographic range expansion into South America by Coccidioides immitis mirrors New World patterns of human migration

scholarly article

Breaching Pathogeographic Barriers by the Bat White-Nose Fungus.

scientific article

Calcineurin Orchestrates Lateral Transfer of Aspergillus fumigatus during Macrophage Cell Death

scientific article

Chromosomal copy number variation, selection and uneven rates of recombination reveal cryptic genome diversity linked to pathogenicity.

scientific article

Chytrid fungi and global amphibian declines

scientific article published on 25 February 2020

Chytrid fungus infection in zebrafish demonstrates that the pathogen can parasitize non-amphibian vertebrate hosts

scientific article

Citizen Science Surveillance of Triazole-Resistant in United Kingdom Residential Garden Soils

scientific article published on 22 February 2022

Climate change and outbreaks of amphibian chytridiomycosis in a montane area of Central Spain; is there a link?

scientific article

Climate forcing of an emerging pathogenic fungus across a montane multi-host community

scientific article

Climate structuring of infection in the threatened amphibians of the northern Western Ghats, India

scientific article published on 13 June 2018

Clinical implications of globally emerging azole resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus.

scientific article

Clonality despite sex: the evolution of host-associated sexual neighborhoods in the pathogenic fungus Penicillium marneffei

scientific article published in 2012

Common reservoirs for Penicillium marneffei infection in humans and rodents, China

scientific article (publication date: February 2011)

Consensus multi-locus sequence typing scheme for Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii

scientific article

Consistency of Published Results on the Pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Madagascar: Formal Comment on Kolby et al. Rapid Response to Evaluate the Presence of Amphibian Chytrid Fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) and Ranavirus in Wild A

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Context-dependent amphibian host population response to an invading pathogen

scientific article

Context-dependent conservation responses to emerging wildlife diseases

article

Cryptococcal meningitis: epidemiology, immunology, diagnosis and therapy

scientific article published on 25 November 2016

Cryptococcus gattii in North American Pacific Northwest: whole-population genome analysis provides insights into species evolution and dispersal

scientific article

Decision-making for mitigating wildlife diseases: From theory to practice for an emerging fungal pathogen of amphibians

scientific article published in 2018

Describing Genomic and Epigenomic Traits Underpinning Emerging Fungal Pathogens.

scientific article published on 28 October 2017

Development and worldwide use of a non-lethal and minimal population-level impact protocols for the isolation of chytrids from amphibians

Development and worldwide use of non-lethal, and minimal population-level impact, protocols for the isolation of amphibian chytrid fungi.

scientific article

Diagnosing Emerging Fungal Threats: A One Health Perspective

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Discriminating Lineages of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis using quantitative PCR

scientific article published on 14 August 2020

Discriminating lineages of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis using quantitative PCR

scientific article published on 24 November 2020

Disease surveillance in recombining pathogens: multilocus genotypes identify sources of human Coccidioides infections

scientific article

Dr Jekyll and Mrs Hyde: Risky hybrid sex by amphibian-parasitizing chytrids in the Brazilian Atlantic Forests

scientific article published in July 2016

Dynamic ploidy changes drive fluconazole resistance in human cryptococcal meningitis

scientific article published on 28 January 2019

Ecology: In peril from a perfect pathogen.

scientific article

Efficient phagocytosis and laccase activity affect the outcome of HIV-associated cryptococcosis

scientific article

Elevated Corticosterone Levels and Changes in Amphibian Behavior Are Associated with Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) Infection and Bd Lineage

scientific article

Elevated Prevalence of Azole-Resistant Aspergillus fumigatus in Urban versus Rural Environments in the United Kingdom

scientific article published on 23 August 2019

Emerging Fungal Threats to Plants and Animals Challenge Agriculture and Ecosystem Resilience

scientific article published on March 2017

Emerging disease in UK amphibians

scientific article published on 01 May 2015

Emerging infections and the integrative environment-health sciences: the road ahead

scientific article published on 11 January 2021

Endemic and introduced haplotypes of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Japanese amphibians: sink or source?

scientific article published in December 2009

Environmental detection of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in a temperate climate

scientific article published on 01 September 2007

Epidemiological and genetic analysis of severe acute respiratory syndrome

scientific article

Epidemiology and Evolution of Fungal Pathogens in Plants and Animals

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Erratum for Abdolrasouli et al., Genomic Context of Azole Resistance Mutations in Aspergillus fumigatus Determined Using Whole-Genome Sequencing

scientific article published on 14 July 2015

Evidence for the introduction of lethal Chytridiomycosis affecting wild betic midwife toads (Alytes dickhilleni).

scientific article

Expression profiling the temperature-dependent amphibian response to infection by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

scientific article

Factors driving pathogenicity vs. prevalence of amphibian panzootic chytridiomycosis in Iberia

scientific article published on 27 January 2010

First hospital outbreak of the globally emerging Candida auris in a European hospital

scientific article

First parasitological survey of Endangered Bornean elephants Elephas maximus borneensis

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Frequency and evolution of Azole resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus associated with treatment failure

scientific article published on July 2009

Fungal multilocus sequence typing--it's not just for bacteria

scientific article

Genetic diversity, recombination, and divergence in animal associated Penicillium dipodomyis

scientific article

Genome Evolution and Innovation across the Four Major Lineages of Cryptococcus gattii ⬇️

scientific article

Genomic Context of Azole Resistance Mutations in Aspergillus fumigatus Determined Using Whole-Genome Sequencing

scientific article published on 2 June 2015

Genomic Epidemiology Identifies Azole Resistance Due to TR/L98H in European Causing COVID-19-Associated Pulmonary Aspergillosis

scientific article published on 13 November 2023

Genomic epidemiology of Cryptococcus yeasts identifies adaptation to environmental niches underpinning infection across an African HIV/AIDS cohort.

scientific article published on 19 October 2016

Genomic epidemiology of a case cluster in Glasgow, Scotland, 2018

scientific article published in March 2021

Genomic epidemiology of the UK outbreak of the emerging human fungal pathogen Candida auris

scientific article published on 29 March 2018

Genomic epidemiology of the emerging pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis from native and invasive amphibian species in Chile

scientific article

Genomic innovations linked to infection strategies across emerging pathogenic chytrid fungi

scientific article

Genotypic Diversity Is Associated with Clinical Outcome and Phenotype in Cryptococcal Meningitis across Southern Africa

scientific article published on 25 June 2015

Geographically structured populations of Cryptococcus neoformans Variety grubii in Asia correlate with HIV status and show a clonal population structure

scientific article

Global Amphibian Extinction Risk Assessment for the Panzootic Chytrid Fungus

scientific article

Global emergence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and amphibian chytridiomycosis in space, time, and host

scientific article

High prevalence of triazole resistance in clinical Aspergillus fumigatus isolates in a specialist cardiothoracic centre

scientific article published on 10 August 2018

High-Throughput Microsatellite Markers Development for Genetic Characterization of Emerging Species

scientific article published on 14 March 2023

Host species vary in infection probability, sub-lethal effects, and costs of immune response when exposed to an amphibian parasite.

scientific article published on 29 May 2015

Illuminating choices for library prep: a comparison of library preparation methods for whole genome sequencing of Cryptococcus neoformans using Illumina HiSeq

scientific article

In Vitro and In Vivo Efficacy of a Novel and Long Acting Fungicidal Azole, PC1244 on Aspergillus fumigatus Infection.

scientific article published on 12 February 2018

Inferring infection processes of a parasitic nematode using population genetics

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Introduction: species and speciation in micro-organisms

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Invasive pathogens threaten species recovery programs

scientific article

Isolation and identification of the human pathogen Pythium insidiosum from environmental samples collected in Thai agricultural areas

scientific article published in February 2008

Low diversity Cryptococcus neoformans variety grubii multilocus sequence types from Thailand are consistent with an ancestral African origin

scientific article

Low effective dispersal of asexual genotypes in heterogeneous landscapes by the endemic pathogen Penicillium marneffei

scientific article

MLST-Based Population Genetic Analysis in a Global Context Reveals Clonality amongst Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii VNI Isolates from HIV Patients in Southeastern Brazil

scientific article

Mapping the global emergence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, the amphibian chytrid fungus

scientific article published in 2013

Microevolutionary traits and comparative population genomics of the emerging pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus gattii

scientific article published on December 2016

Microsatellites of the parasitic nematode Strongyloides ratti

scientific article published in October 1996

Microscopic aquatic predators strongly affect infection dynamics of a globally emerged pathogen

scientific article

Mitigating amphibian chytridiomycoses in nature

scientific article

Molecular detection of Pythium insidiosum from soil in Thai agricultural areas

scientific article published on December 2013

Molecular toolkit unlocks life cycle of the panzootic amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

scholarly article

Moving Beyond Too Little, Too Late: Managing Emerging Infectious Diseases in Wild Populations Requires International Policy and Partnerships

scientific article published on 7 October 2014

Multilocus microsatellite typing system for Penicillium marneffei reveals spatially structured populations

scientific article

Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) and multilocus microsatellite typing (MLMT) in fungi

Multiple emergences of genetically diverse amphibian-infecting chytrids include a globalized hypervirulent recombinant lineage.

scientific article

Non-invasive sampling methods for the detection of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in archived amphibians

scientific article

Nonrandom Distribution of Azole Resistance across the Global Population of Aspergillus fumigatus

scientific article published on 21 May 2019

Penicillium marneffei infection and recent advances in the epidemiology and molecular biology aspects

scientific article

Persistence of the emerging pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis outside the amphibian host greatly increases the probability of host extinction

scientific article published in February 2008

Phylogenetic species recognition and species concepts in fungi

scientific article

Population genetic structure of clinical and environmental isolates of Blastomyces dermatitidis, based on 27 polymorphic microsatellite markers

scientific article published on 24 June 2011

Population genomics confirms acquisition of drug-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus infection by humans from the environment

scientific article published on 25 April 2022

Post-epizootic microbiome associations across communities of neotropical amphibians

scientific article published on 07 January 2021

Presence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in feral populations of Xenopus laevis in Chile

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Primers for genotyping single nucleotide polymorphisms and microsatellites in the pathogenic fungus Coccidioides immitis

scientific article published on June 1999

Proteomic and phenotypic profiling of the amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis shows that genotype is linked to virulence.

scientific article

Rapid detection of azole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus in clinical and environmental isolates using lab-on-a-chip diagnostic system

scientific article published on 09 September 2020

Rapid genome sequencing for outbreak analysis of the emerging human fungal pathogen Candida auris

Rapid global expansion of the fungal disease chytridiomycosis into declining and healthy amphibian populations

scientific article

Recent Asian origin of chytrid fungi causing global amphibian declines.

scientific article

Resistance to chytridiomycosis in European plethodontid salamanders of the genus Speleomantes

scientific article

Response to Comment on "Amphibian fungal panzootic causes catastrophic and ongoing loss of biodiversity"

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Revealing the genome of the microsporidian <i>Vairimorpha bombi</i>, a potential driver of bumble bee declines in North America

scientific article published in 2024

Role of Cannomys badius as a natural animal host of Penicillium marneffei in India

scientific article published on November 2004

Scientists' warning of threats to mountains

scientific article published in 2022

Sex, drugs and recombination: the wild life of Aspergillus

scientific article

Short term minimum water temperatures determine levels of infection by the amphibian chytrid fungus in Alytes obstetricans tadpoles

scientific article

Speciation despite globally overlapping distributions in Penicillium chrysogenum: the population genetics of Alexander Fleming's lucky fungus.

scientific article published on 23 September 2011

Species-specific PCR to describe local-scale distributions of four cryptic species in the Penicillium chrysogenum complex

scientific article

Successful elimination of a lethal wildlife infectious disease in nature.

scientific article published in November 2015

Surveillance for Azole-Resistant in a Centralized Diagnostic Mycology Service, London, United Kingdom, 1998-2017

scientific article published on 20 September 2018

THE EVOLUTION OF ASEXUAL FUNGI: Reproduction, Speciation and Classification

scientific article published in January 1999

Tackling emerging fungal threats to animal health, food security and ecosystem resilience

scientific article

Tackling the emerging threat of antifungal resistance to human health

scientific article published in September 2022

Taxonomic and diagnostic markers for identification ofCoccidioides immitisandCoccidioides posadasii

scientific article published on 01 August 2007

The Amphibian Trade: Bans or Best Practice?

scientific article published on 01 March 2009

The Case for Adopting the "Species Complex" Nomenclature for the Etiologic Agents of Cryptococcosis

scientific article (publication date: 11 January 2017)

The Cryptococcus neoformans Titan cell is an inducible and regulated morphotype underlying pathogenesis.

scientific article published on 18 May 2018

The Impact of the Fungal Priority Pathogens List on Medical Mycology: A Northern European Perspective

scientific article published in July 2024

The emerging amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis globally infects introduced populations of the North American bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana ⬇️

scientific article

The future of fungi: threats and opportunities

scientific article published on 4 November 2022

The gut fungus Basidiobolus ranarum has a large genome and different copy numbers of putatively functionally redundant elongation factor genes

scientific article

The link between rapid enigmatic amphibian decline and the globally emerging chytrid fungus

scientific article

The need for environmental surveillance to understand the ecology, epidemiology and impact of Cryptococcus infection in Africa

scientific article published on 7 July 2021

The need for jumpstarting amphibian genome projects

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The population genetic structure of the facultatively sexual parasitic nematode Strongyloides ratti in wild rats

scientific article published on 01 April 1998

The rise and rise of emerging infectious fungi challenges food security and ecosystem health

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Threats Posed by the Fungal Kingdom to Humans, Wildlife, and Agriculture

scientific article published on 05 May 2020

Tracing Genetic Exchange and Biogeography of Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii at the Global Population Level.

scientific article published on 5 July 2017

Tracking the amphibian pathogens Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans using a highly specific monoclonal antibody and lateral-flow technology

scientific article published on 19 December 2016

Transcriptional Heterogeneity of VGII Compared with Non-VGII Lineages Underpins Key Pathogenicity Pathways

scientific article published in 2018

Transcriptional heterogeneity of Cryptococcus gattii VGII compared with non-VGII lineages underpins key pathogenicity pathways

Transmission of Hypervirulence traits via sexual reproduction within and between lineages of the human fungal pathogen cryptococcus gattii

scientific article

Two-speed genome evolution drives pathogenicity in fungal pathogens of animals

scientific article published on 10 January 2023

Using false discovery rates to benchmark SNP-callers in next-generation sequencing projects

scientific article published on January 2013

Using itraconazole to clear Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection, and subsequent depigmentation of Alytes muletensis tadpoles

scientific article

Widespread presence of the pathogenic fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in wild amphibian communities in Madagascar.

scientific article

Wildlife disease. Recent introduction of a chytrid fungus endangers Western Palearctic salamanders

scientific article

Worldwide emergence of resistance to antifungal drugs challenges human health and food security

scientific article

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