{"id":7468,"date":"2024-08-27T20:34:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T01:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7468"},"modified":"2024-08-27T20:34:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T01:34:12","slug":"a-critical-pathogen-the-rise-of-drug-resistant-fungal-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/08\/27\/a-critical-pathogen-the-rise-of-drug-resistant-fungal-diseases\/","title":{"rendered":"A \u2018Critical Pathogen\u2019: The Rise of Drug-Resistant Fungal Diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.jhu.edu\/2024\/the-rising-threat-of-fungal-diseases\">Johns Hopkins<\/a> Until recently, most fungal infections did not pose a significant threat to human health. Our advanced immune system and hot body temperature created an inhospitable environment for fungi, which mostly infected hospitalized patients or those taking immunosuppressive medication.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But over the past 10 years, the fungus&nbsp;<em>Candida auris<\/em>&nbsp;has emerged independently on three continents, suggesting that it may be the first fungus to have adapted to survive hotter temperatures. And last year, scientists in Singapore identified a new variant of this fungus, which the WHO has now labeled a \u201ccritical pathogen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this Q&amp;A, adapted from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/johnshopkinssph.libsyn.com\/795-the-discovery-of-a-new-clade-of-candida-aurisa-critical-pathogen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">August 26<\/a>\u00a0episode of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/johnshopkinssph.libsyn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Public Health On Call<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.jhu.edu\/faculty\/3126\/arturo-casadevall\">Arturo Casadevall<\/a>, MD, PhD, MS, chair of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.jhu.edu\/departments\/molecular-microbiology-and-immunology\">Molecular Microbiology and Immunology<\/a>, discusses the rise of\u00a0<em>Candida auris<\/em>\u00a0with Stephanie Desmond, co-author of his book\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.press.jhu.edu\/books\/title\/53673\/what-if-fungi-win\"><em>What If Fungi Win?<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.jhu.edu\/2024\/the-rising-threat-of-fungal-diseases\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"gtvXexCD Oe m\">gtvXexCD Oe m<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johns Hopkins Until recently, most fungal infections did not pose a significant threat to human health. Our advanced immune system and hot body temperature created an inhospitable environment for fungi, which mostly infected hospitalized patients or those taking immunosuppressive medication.&nbsp; But over the past 10 years, the fungus&nbsp;Candida auris&nbsp;has emerged independently on three continents, suggesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fungal-infection"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7469,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7468\/revisions\/7469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}