Abstract
Over 625 fungal species have been reported to cause infection in vertebrates. The fungal kingdom contains 167 orders, of which 40 (24%) were repeatedly cited in the medical literature. Recurrence indicates that these species have a certain predisposition to cause infection. In the present chapter, the different categories of pathogens and outbreak fungi are presented and discussed. Most emerging fungi concern infections that are non-transmissible; their frequency may show moderate increase due to changes of host conditions. Outbreaks may concern multiple infections from a common environmental source, known as sapronoses.
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De Hoog, G. S., Ahmed, S. A., Danesi, P., Guillot, J., & Gräser, Y. (2018). Distribution of pathogens and outbreak fungi in the fungal kingdom. In Emerging and Epizootic Fungal Infections in Animals (pp. 3–16). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72093-7_1
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