Histoplasma and Histoplasmosis, 4th Edition
A special issue of Journal of Fungi (ISSN 2309-608X). This special issue belongs to the section "Fungal Pathogenesis and Disease Control".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 June 2024 | Viewed by 110
Special Issue Editors
Interests: HIV infectious diseases; malaria; AIDS; Plasmodium; Falciparum malaria; Vivax malaria
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Interests: fungal infections; tropical medicine; epidemiology; public health; HIV
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Progressive disseminated histoplasmosis is still too often underdiagnosed; this has resulted in a great burden of avoidable deaths in Latin America and presumably in other continents. There are diagnostic difficulties for this proteiform disease that lead to a significant risk of death; these diagnostic problems also lead to a lack of data and awareness among physicians. Despite recent WHO/PAHO histoplasmosis diagnosis and treatment guidelines, challenges still lay ahead, especially in low- and middle-income countries. There are still many unanswered questions regarding the natural history of disseminated histoplasmosis and who should be tested, when, and what to do if the test is positive in patients without symptoms. The disease burden beyond the Americas, reports documenting the scaling-up of diagnoses and treatments, prognostic factors, new tools and strategies, and the disease’s rising incidence in non-HIV immunosuppression are examples of topics that this Special Issue of the Journal of Fungi will seek to explore.
Prof. Dr. Mathieu Nacher
Dr. Antoine A. Adenis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- histoplasma
- histoplasmosis
- endemic fungi
- opportunistic infections
- AIDS
- fungal epidemiology
