{"title":"Climate Change and Medical Mycology.","authors":"Sarah Sedik, Matthias Egger, Martin Hoenigl","doi":"10.1016/j.idc.2024.11.002","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This review explores how climate change influences fungal disease dynamics, focusing on emergence of new fungal pathogens, increased antifungal resistance, expanding geographic ranges of fungal pathogens, and heightened host susceptibility. Rising temperatures and altered precipitation patterns enhance fungal growth and resistance mechanisms, complicating treatment efforts. Climate-driven geographic shifts are expanding the range of diseases like Valley fever, histoplasmosis, and blastomycosis. Additionally, natural disasters exacerbated by climate change increase exposure to fungal pathogens through environmental disruptions and trauma. Many of those impacts affect primarily those already disadvantaged by social determinants of health putting them at increased risk for fungal diseases.</p>","PeriodicalId":13562,"journal":{"name":"Infectious disease clinics of North America","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.1000,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Infectious disease clinics of North America","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idc.2024.11.002","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"IMMUNOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This review explores how climate change influences fungal disease dynamics, focusing on emergence of new fungal pathogens, increased antifungal resistance, expanding geographic ranges of fungal pathogens, and heightened host susceptibility. Rising temperatures and altered precipitation patterns enhance fungal growth and resistance mechanisms, complicating treatment efforts. Climate-driven geographic shifts are expanding the range of diseases like Valley fever, histoplasmosis, and blastomycosis. Additionally, natural disasters exacerbated by climate change increase exposure to fungal pathogens through environmental disruptions and trauma. Many of those impacts affect primarily those already disadvantaged by social determinants of health putting them at increased risk for fungal diseases.
期刊介绍:
Infectious Disease Clinics of North America updates you on the latest trends in the clinical diagnosis and management of patients with infectious diseases, keeps you up to date on the newest advances, and provides a sound basis for choosing treatment options. Each issue focuses on a single topic in infectious disease, including clinical microbiology, compromised host infections, gastrointestinal infections, global health, hepatitis, HIV/AIDS, hospital-acquired infections, travel medicine, infection control, bacterial infections, sexually transmitted diseases, urinary tract infections, and viral infections.