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Diagnosing emerging fungal threats: a one health perspective

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Ghosh, Pria N.
Fisher, Matthew C.
Bates, Kieran A.

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Frontiers Media

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Emerging fungal pathogens are a growing threat to global health, ecosystems, food security, and the world economy. Over the last century, environmental change and globalized transport, twinned with the increasing application of antifungal chemical drugs have led to increases in outbreaks of fungal diseases with sometimes catastrophic effects. In order to tackle contemporary epidemics and predemic threats, there is a pressing need for a unified approach in identification and monitoring of fungal pathogens. In this paper, we discuss current high throughput technologies, as well as new platforms capable of combining diverse data types to inform practical epidemiological strategies with a focus on emerging fungal pathogens of wildlife

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Ghosh, P.N. et al. 2018. Diagnosing emerging fungal threats: a one health perspective. Frontiers in genetics, 11 Sep: Article no 376. [https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2018.00376]

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