Infections are becoming harder to treat because the fungi are adapting to survive antifungal drugs – but this isn’t happening by chance.
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Prevention may be the best way to cope with the worldwide wave of treatment-resistant fungal pathogens.
Antimicrobial resistance is a public health and economic disaster waiting to happen. If we do not address this threat, by 2050 more people will die from drug-resistant infections than from cancer.
Mention fungi and most people think of eating mushrooms or yeasts in bread or beer. But fungi are now on the CDC’s list of public health threats as the number of deadly infections they cause rise.
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Regents' Professor & Chair, Medical Laboratory Science, Texas State University
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Graduate Student in Chemistry, Rice University
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Clinician-scientist, Adelaide University
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Associate Professor, Clinical and Health Sciences, Adelaide University
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Lecturer in Podiatry, Charles Sturt University
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Principal Investigator, Manchester Fungal infection Group, University of Manchester
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Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of Mycology, University of Pittsburgh
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Microbiology, Rice University
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Professor of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University
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Professor of Chemistry, Rice University
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Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University
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Professor of Biocchemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University
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Caroline Robinson is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor Podiatry, Charles Sturt University
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Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, University of Michigan