Paper of the Month - Volume 4 Issue 1

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Report from the 4th Trends in Medical Mycology Meeting (TIMM-4)

Argiris Symeonidis, MD, PhD1, and Jenny Bryan, BSc2

Although once the remit of only mycologists, hematologists, and oncologists, invasive fungal infections (IFI) are rapidly moving onto the radar of a much wider range of clinicians since chronic conditions, such as diabetes mellitus, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cystic fibrosis, congenital immunodeficiencies, and various diseases associated with treatment-related immunosuppression are now well recognized as risk factors. Moreover, additional risk factors, such as iron overload, are starting to emerge. At the 4th Trends in Medical Mycology (TIMM-4) congress, >1000 delegates considered how different specialties can work together to address the triple challenge of changing patterns of infection, growing numbers of at-risk patients, and emerging resistance to commonly used antifungal agents.



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