Impact of Climate Change on Fungal Diseases

Preface.- Climate change overview.- Fungi: Essential elements in ecosystems.- Thermotolerance and adaption to climate change.- Impact of climatic change on dermatophytosis.- Climate change and the proliferation of cases of sporotrichosis.- Climate change and eumycetoma.- Effect of climate change on the geographical distribution of coccodioidomycosis.- Geographical expansion of histoplasmosis and its relation to climate change.- Impact of climate change on opportunistic mold infections.- The emergence of opportunistic yeast infections and climate change.- Climate change and allergies.- Climate change and mycotoxins.- Mycosis in natural disasters associated with climate change.- Advances and limitations in the identification of fungi.- Actions against the increase in fungal infections due to climate change: Prospects for vaccine development.- Bibliography.- Index.

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• Ecologia das plantas
• Microbiologia e virologia médicas
• Micologia, fungos (não médica)
• Biodiversidade
• Biotecnologia

Climate Change;Mycotic Diseases;Mycoses;Mycotoxins;Yeast Infections;Mold Infections;Coccodioidomycosis;Eumycetoma;Sporotrichosis;Dermatophytosis;Thermotolerance