Tackling fungal infections more effectively through surveillance

At the Institut Pasteur, the National Reference Center (CNR) for Invasive Mycoses & Antifungals is responsible for epidemiological surveillance on severe fungal infections in France. In a recent publication in the journal mBio, the CNR team summarized several years of surveillance to provide an overview of infections (septicemia, pneumonia, meningitis, etc.) caused by microscopic pathogenic fungi. The infections can be divided into candidiasis (caused by yeast of the Candida genus), aspergillosis and mucormycosis (caused by environmental mold) and Pneumocystis pneumonia.

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