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Threats Posed by the Fungal Kingdom to Humans, Wildlife, and Agriculture

Matthew C. Fisher, Sarah J. Gurr, Christina A. Cuomo, David S. Blehert, Hailing Jin, Eva H. Stukenbrock, Jason E. Stajich, Regine Kahmann, Charles Boone, David W. Denning, Neil A. R. Gow, Bruce S. Klein, James W. Kronstad, Donald C. Sheppard, John W. Taylor, Gerard D. Wright, Joseph Heitman, Arturo Casadevall, Leah E. Cowen
Anuradha Chowdhary, Editor
Matthew C. Fisher
aMRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
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Sarah J. Gurr
bDepartment of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
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Christina A. Cuomo
cInfectious Disease and Microbiome Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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David S. Blehert
dU.S. Geological Survey, National Wildlife Health Center, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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Hailing Jin
eDepartment of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Center for Plant Cell Biology, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California—Riverside, Riverside, California, USA
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Eva H. Stukenbrock
fMax Planck Fellow Group Environmental Genomics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany
gEnvironmental Genomics, Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany
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Jason E. Stajich
eDepartment of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Center for Plant Cell Biology, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California—Riverside, Riverside, California, USA
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Regine Kahmann
hMax Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Department of Organismic Interactions, Marburg, Germany
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Charles Boone
iDepartment of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
sThe Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
tRIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Wako, Saitama, Japan
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David W. Denning
jThe National Aspergillosis Centre, Wythenshawe Hospital, The University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Neil A. R. Gow
kDepartment of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
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Bruce S. Klein
lDepartment of Pediatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, and Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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James W. Kronstad
mMichael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Donald C. Sheppard
nMcGill Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunology, Departments of Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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John W. Taylor
oUniversity of California—Berkeley, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, Berkeley, California, USA
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Gerard D. Wright
pM.G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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rDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00449-20
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00449-20
PubMed 
32371596

Published By 
American Society for Microbiology
History 
  • Published online May 5, 2020.

Copyright & Usage 
Copyright © 2020 Fisher et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
Editors and / or Reviewers 
  • Anuradha Chowdhary, Editor, Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute

Author Information

  1. Matthew C. Fishera,
  2. Sarah J. Gurrb,
  3. Christina A. Cuomoc,
  4. David S. Blehertd,
  5. Hailing Jine,
  6. Eva H. Stukenbrockf,g,
  7. Jason E. Stajiche,
  8. Regine Kahmannh,
  9. Charles Boonei,s,t,
  10. David W. Denningj,
  11. Neil A. R. Gowk,
  12. Bruce S. Kleinl,
  13. James W. Kronstadm,
  14. Donald C. Sheppardn,
  15. John W. Tayloro,
  16. Gerard D. Wrightp,
  17. Joseph Heitmanq,
  18. Arturo Casadevallr,
  19. Leah E. Coweni
  1. aMRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
  2. bDepartment of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
  3. cInfectious Disease and Microbiome Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  4. dU.S. Geological Survey, National Wildlife Health Center, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
  5. eDepartment of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Center for Plant Cell Biology, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California—Riverside, Riverside, California, USA
  6. fMax Planck Fellow Group Environmental Genomics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany
  7. gEnvironmental Genomics, Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany
  8. hMax Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Department of Organismic Interactions, Marburg, Germany
  9. iDepartment of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  10. jThe National Aspergillosis Centre, Wythenshawe Hospital, The University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom
  11. kDepartment of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
  12. lDepartment of Pediatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, and Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
  13. mMichael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  14. nMcGill Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunology, Departments of Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
  15. oUniversity of California—Berkeley, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, Berkeley, California, USA
  16. pM.G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
  17. qDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Medicine, and Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
  18. rDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  19. sThe Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  20. tRIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Wako, Saitama, Japan
  • Address correspondence to Leah E. Cowen, leah.cowen{at}utoronto.ca.
  • Citation Fisher MC, Gurr SJ, Cuomo CA, Blehert DS, Jin H, Stukenbrock EH, Stajich JE, Kahmann R, Boone C, Denning DW, Gow NAR, Klein BS, Kronstad JW, Sheppard DC, Taylor JW, Wright GD, Heitman J, Casadevall A, Cowen LE. 2020. Threats posed by the fungal kingdom to humans, wildlife, and agriculture. mBio 11:e00449-20. https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00449-20.

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Matthew C. Fisher, Sarah J. Gurr, Christina A. Cuomo, David S. Blehert, Hailing Jin, Eva H. Stukenbrock, Jason E. Stajich, Regine Kahmann, Charles Boone, David W. Denning, Neil A. R. Gow, Bruce S. Klein, James W. Kronstad, Donald C. Sheppard, John W. Taylor, Gerard D. Wright, Joseph Heitman, Arturo Casadevall, Leah E. Cowen
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Threats Posed by the Fungal Kingdom to Humans, Wildlife, and Agriculture
Matthew C. Fisher, Sarah J. Gurr, Christina A. Cuomo, David S. Blehert, Hailing Jin, Eva H. Stukenbrock, Jason E. Stajich, Regine Kahmann, Charles Boone, David W. Denning, Neil A. R. Gow, Bruce S. Klein, James W. Kronstad, Donald C. Sheppard, John W. Taylor, Gerard D. Wright, Joseph Heitman, Arturo Casadevall, Leah E. Cowen
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    • ABSTRACT
    • INTRODUCTION
    • EMERGING FUNGAL THREATS TO HUMANS
    • CONTROL STRATEGIES
    • EMERGING FUNGAL THREATS TO WILDLIFE
    • CONTROL STRATEGIES
    • EMERGING THREATS TO PLANTS
    • CONTROL
    • THE WAY FORWARD
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antifungal resistance
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