Filamentous Fungal Human Pathogens from Food Emphasising Aspergillus, Fusarium and Mucor.

ABSTRACT: Disease caused by filamentous fungal human pathogens (FFHP) is increasing. These organisms cause severe mycoses in immunosuppressed individuals, such as those: (a) with AIDS; (b) having undergone transplantation; and/or (c) undergoing chemotherapy. Immunocompetent people can become infected. Some FFHP are isolated from foods which may be fomites. However, the information concerning particular species on specific food is large, dispersed and difficult to obtain. Reports of filamentous fungi from food/crops and causing human disease are frequently only available in the literature of food mycology/plant pathology and medical mycology, respectively: it is seldom cross-referenced. Aspergillus contains some species with strains that are the most dangerous FFHP, with Aspergillus fumigatus causing

SUBMITTER: Paterson RRM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5620635 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature