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Title Fungal diseases : an emerging threat to human, animal, and plant health : workshop summary / LeighAnne Olsen [and others], rapporteurs ; Forum on Microbial Threats, Board on Global Health, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
Published Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 465 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color)
Series Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf
Contents Appendices: The emergence of Cryptococcus gattii in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest -- The good, the bad, and the ugly: fungi mold your world -- The fungi 1,2,3 ... 5.1 million species? -- Bat white-nose syndrome in North America -- Mammalian endothermy optimally restricts fungi and metabolic costs -- Vertebrate endothermy restricts most fungi as potential pathogens -- Surveillance for emerging diseases in wildlife -- Geography, climate, dust, and disease: epidemiology of valley fever (Coccidioidomycosis) and ways it might be controlled -- Cryptococcus gattii: an emerging pathogen in the United States -- Sexual reproduction, evolution, and adpatation of Cryptoccus gatti in the Pacific Northwest outbreak -- Yeast infections-human genetics on the rise -- The increased risk of global wheat rust pandemics: putting yellow rust into perspective -- Fungal pathogenesis in plants and animals: similarities and differences -- Climate, globalization, and trade: impacts on dispersal and invasion of fungal plant pathogens -- Emerging fungal diseases of wild animal species -- The emergence of Phytophthora ramorum in North America and Europe -- Climate change, extreme weather events, and fungal disease emergence and spread -- Host-pathogen dynamics of Amphibian Chytridiomycosis: the role of the skin microbiome in health and disease -- The effect of trade-mediated spread of Amphibian Chytrid on amphibian conservation -- White-nose syndrome fungus (Geomyces destructans) in bats, Europe -- Pan-European distribution of white-nose syndrome fungus (Geomyces destructans) not associated with mass mortality
Summary "Fungal diseases have contributed to death and disability in humans, triggered global wildlife extinctions and population declines, devastated agricultural crops, and altered forest ecosystem dynamics. Despite the extensive influence of fungi on health and economic well-being, the threats posed by emerging fungal pathogens to life on Earth are often underappreciated and poorly understood. On December 14 and 15, 2010, the IOM's Forum on Microbial Threats hosted a public workshop to explore the scientific and policy dimensions associated with the causes and consequences of emerging fungal diseases."--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Emerging infectious diseases -- Congresses
Microorganisms -- Evolution -- Congresses
Fungal diseases of plants -- Epidemics -- Congresses
Communicable diseases -- Prevention -- Congresses
Communicable Diseases, Emerging -- epidemiology
Communicable Diseases, Emerging -- prevention & control
Mycoses -- prevention & control
Mycoses -- epidemiology
Fungi -- virology
Communicable Disease Control
Communicable Disease Control -- methods
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Contagious.
MEDICAL -- Infectious Diseases.
Communicable diseases -- Prevention
Emerging infectious diseases
Fungal diseases of plants -- Epidemics
Microorganisms -- Evolution
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Olsen, LeighAnne.
Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Forum on Microbial Threats.
Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on Global Health.
LC no. 2012359234
ISBN 9780309212274
0309212278
128327874X
9781283278744