Publications

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2024

European Study of Cerebral Aspergillosis treated with Isavuconazole (ESCAI): A study by the ESCMID Fungal Infection Study Group.
Serris A, Rautemaa-Richardson R, Laranjinha JD, Candoni A, Garcia-Vidal C, Alastruey-Izquierdo A, Hammarström H, Seidel D, Styczynski J, Sabino R, Lamoth F, Prattes J, Warris A, Porcher R, Lanternier F, the ESCAI Study Group.
Clin Infect Dis. 2024 Oct 15;79(4):936-943. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciae371

Clinical and mycological outcomes of candidaemia and/or invasive candidiasis by Candida spp. and antifungal susceptibility: pooled analyses of two randomised trials of rezafungin versus caspofungin.
Soriano A, Locke JB, Cornely OA, Roilides E, Ramos-Martinez A, Honoré PM, Castanheira M, Carvalhaes CG, Nseir S, Bassetti M, Manamley N, Sandison T, Arendrup MC.
Clin Microbiol Infect. 2024 Nov 22:S1198-743X(24)00560-3. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2024.11.029. Online ahead of print.

Nomenclature for human and animal fungal pathogens and diseases: a proposal for standardized terminology.
de Hoog S, Walsh TJ, Ahmed SA, Alastruey-Izquierdo A, Arendrup MC, Borman A, Chen S, Chowdhary A, Colgrove RC, Cornely OA, Denning DW, Dufresne PJ, Filkins L, Gangneux J-P, Gené J, Groll AH, Guillot J, Haase G, Halliday C, Hawksworth DL, Hay R, Hoenigl M, Hubka V, Jagielski T,  Kandemir H, Kidd SE, Kus JV, Kwon-Chung J, Lockhart SR, Meis JF, Mendoza L, Meyer W, Nguyen MH, Song Y, Sorrell TC, Stielow JB, Vilela R, Vitale RG, Wengenack NL, White PL, Ostrosky-Zeichner L, Zhang SX, on behalf of the ISHAM/ECMM/FDLC Working Group Nomenclature of Clinical Fungi.
J Clin Microbiol. 2024 Nov 11:e0093724. doi: 10.1128/jcm.00937-24. Online ahead of print

Length of hospital and intensive care unit stay in patients with invasive candidiasis and/or candidemia treated with rezafungin: a pooled analysis of two randomised controlled trials.
Honoré PM, Bassetti M,  Cornely OA, Dupont H, Fortún J, Kollef MH, Pappas P, Pullman J, Vazquez J, Bielicka I, Dickerson S, Manamley N, Sandison T, Thompson GR.
Crit Care, 361 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-024-05152-2

Costs for global guideline-based diagnosis of mucormycosis in patients with neutropenia, hematopoietic stem cell, or solid organ transplantation – a perspective of the German healthcare system.
Wingen-Heimann SM, Cornely OA, Seidel, Salmanton-García J.
Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research. 2024 Nov 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1080/14737167.2024.2426613

Effectiveness of high efficiency particulate (HEPA) air condition combined with the antifungal prophylaxis on incidence, morbidity and mortality of invasive fungal infections in patients with acute myeloid leukemia: a retrospective single-center study.
Preyer L, Vettorazzi E, Fiedler W, Rohde H, Stemler J, Gönner S, Bokemeyer C, Khandanpour C, Wortmann F, Kebenko M.
Front Oncol. 2024 Oct 17:14:1429221. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2024.1429221. eCollection 2024

Rezafungin versus caspofungin for patients with candidaemia or invasive candidiasis in the intensive care unit: pooled analyses of the ReSTORE and STRIVE randomised trials.
Honoré PM, Girardis M, Kollef M, Cornely OA, Thompson GR, Bassetti, Soriano A, Huang, Vazquez J, Kullberg BJ, Pappas, Manamley N, Sandison T, Pullman J, Nseir S.
Crit Care. 2024 Oct 28;28(1):348. doi: 10.1186/s13054-024-05117-5

EQUAL ABPA Score 2024: A Tool to Measure Guideline Adherence for Managing Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis.
Sehgal IS, Muthu V, Seidel D, Sprute R, Armstrong-James D, Asano K, Chalmers JD, Gangneux J-P, Godet C, Salzer HJF, Cornely OA, Agarwal R.
Mycoses, 2024; 67:e13810 https://doi.org/10.1111/myc.13810

Effectiveness, Safety, and Patterns of Real-World Isavuconazole Use in Europe (2015-2019).
Neofytos D, Pagliuca A, Houghton K, Broughton E, Novis de Figueiredo Valente ML, Jiang L, Enoch DA, Gruener B, Herbrecht R, Lahmer T, Lortholary O, Melenotte C, De Rosa FG, Garcia‑Vidal C, Jimenez M, Fernandez M, Cornely O.
Infect Dis Ther. 2024 Oct 24. doi: 10.1007/s40121-024-01064-4. Online ahead of print

Update on invasive fungal infections: emerging trends in the incidence of fungal infections in immunosuppressed patients and associated conditions.
Salmanton-García J.
Ther Adv Infect Dis. 2024 Sep 27:11:20499361241282835. doi: 10.1177/20499361241282835. eCollection 2024 Jan-Dec

Strengthening Fungal Infection Diagnosis and Treatment:
An In-depth Analysis of Capabilities in Honduras.

Ortiz B, Varela D, Fontecha G, Torres K, Cornely OA, Salmanton-García J.
Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 2024 Oct;ofae578, https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofae578

Global Insights and Trends in Research on Dermatophytes and Dermatophytosis: A Bibliometric Analysis.
Ortiz B, Ballesteros-Monrreal MG, Rosales-Tamashiro J, Bush M, Salmanton-García J, Fontecha G.
Mycoses. 2024 Oct;67(10):e13803. doi: 10.1111/myc.13803

Which trial do we need? Shorter antifungal treatment for candidemia – challenging the 14-day dogma.
Nico Bekaan, Oliver A. Cornely, Tim Friede, Jürgen Prattes, Rosanne Sprute, Martin Hellmich, Philipp Koehler, Jon Salmanton-García, Jannik Stemler, Ilana Reinhold.
Clin Microbiol Infect. 2024 Sep 7:S1198-743X(24)00435-X. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2024.09.004. Online ahead of print

Insights from Three Pan-European Multicentre Studies on Invasive Candida Infections and Outlook to ECMM Candida IV.
Wolfgruber S, Sedik S, Klingspor L, Tortorano A, Gow NAR, Lagrou K, Gangneux J-P, Maertens J, Meis JF, Lass‑Flörl C, Arikan‑Akdagli S, Cornely OA, Hoenigl M.
Mycopathologia. 2024 Aug 1;189(4):70. doi: 10.1007/s11046-024-00871-0.

Lessons learnt from conducting a randomised clinical trial in eumycetoma.
Sprute R, Cornely OA.
Lancet Infect Dis. 2024 Aug 1:S1473-3099(24)00451-1. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(24)00451-1. Online ahead of print

European Study of Cerebral Aspergillosis treated with Isavuconazole: an EFISG study.
Serris A, Rautemaa-Richardson R, Laranjinha JD, Candoni A, Garcia-Vidal C, Alastruey-Izquierdo A, Hammarström H, Seidel D, Styczynski J, Sabino R, Lamoth F, Prattes J, Warris A, Porcher R, Lanternier F, the ESCAI Study Group.
Clin Infect Dis. 2024 Jul 30:ciae371. Online ahead of print.

Attributable mortality of candidemia – Results from the ECMM Candida III multinational European Observational Cohort Study.
Salmanton-García J, Cornely OA, Stemler J, Barac A, Steinmann J, Siváková A, Akalin EH, Arikan-Akdagli S, Loughlin L, Toscano C, Narayanan M, Rogers B, Willinger B, Akyol D, Roilides E, Lagrou K, Mikulska M, Denis, Ponscarme D, Scharmann U, Azap A, Lockhart D, Bicanic T, Kron F, Erben N, Rautemaa-Richardson R, Goodman AL, Garcia-Vidal C, Lass-Flörl C, Gangneux J-P, Taramasso L, Ruiz M, Schick Y, Van Wijngaerden E, Milacek C, Giacobbe DR, Logan C, Rooney E, Gori A, Akova M, Bassetti M, Hoenigl M, Koehler P.
J Infect. 2024 Jul 16:106229. doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2024.106229. Online ahead of print.

Treatment Outcomes Among Patients With a Positive Candida Culture Close to Randomization Receiving Rezafungin or Caspofungin in the ReSTORE Study.
Soriano A, Honore PM, Cornely OA, Chayakulkeeree M, Bassetti M, Haihui H, Dupont H, Keun Kim Y, Kollef M, Kullberg JB, Manamley N, Pappas P, Pullman J, Sandison T, Dignani C,  Vazquez JA, Thompson III GR.
Clin Infect Dis. 2024 Jul 10:ciae363. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciae363. Online ahead of print.

Mapping the path to excellence: Evaluation of the diagnostic and treatment tools for invasive fungal infections in the balkans.
Pantić N, Barać A, Mano V, Dedeić-Ljubović A, Malkodanski I, Jaksić O, Gkentzi D, Mitrović M, Munteanu O, Šišević D, Stojanoski Z, Popescu O, Todorović J, Cornely OA, Salmanton-García J, Collaborators (Dumitru I-M, Stathi A, Mandros C, Travar M, Milobratović D, Mantzana P, Zaharia M, Ostojić A, Chatzimsochou A, Tonkić M, Otašević S, Jovanović D, Vukosavljević N, Bukovski S, Ivva Philipova I, Laura VJ, Savić A, Lupse M, Manuela A, Dimova D, Cviljević S, Orfanidou M, Paramythiotou E, Cheran CA, Gartzonika K, Skvarc M, Nikolcheva-Todorova L, Velikova T, Panopoulou M, Tihic N, Bibić T, Tomic V, Daniela SE, Donchev K, Sular F, Moroti R, Voichiţa LE, Valković T, Maraki S).
J Infect Public Health. 2024 Jul 5;17(8):102493. doi: 10.1016/j.jiph.2024.102493. Online ahead of print

Informing the World Health Organization Fungal Priority Pathogens List (WHO-FPPL): A collection of systematic reviews.
Chen SC-A, Chakrabarti A, Cornely OA, Meis JF, Perfect JR.
Med Mycol. 2024 Jun 27;62(6):myae046. doi: 10.1093/mmy/myae046

Aspergillus-associated diseases from an infectious diseases and allergological perspective.
Aspergillus-assoziierte Erkrankungen aus infektiologischer und allergologischer Perspektive.
Stemler J, Nacov JA, Sprute R, Cornely OA, Joest M, Becker S, Klimek L.
Allergo J Int 2024;33:140-52. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40629-024-00286-9

Insights into invasive fungal infection diagnostic and treatment capacities in tertiary care centres of Germany.
Salmanton-García J, Simon M, Groll AH, Kurzai O, Lahmer T, Lehrnbecher T, Schroeder M, Cornely OA, Stemler J.
JAC Antimicrob Resist. 2024 May 29;6(3):dlae083. doi: 10.1093/jacamr/dlae083. eCollection 2024 Jun

AWMF mold guideline “Medical clinical diagnostics for indoor mold exposure” – Update 2023 AWMF Register No. 161/001.
Hurraß J, Heinzow B, Walser-Reichenbach S, Aurbach U, Becker S, Bellmann R, Bergmann K-C, Cornely OA, Engelhart S, Fischer G, Gabrio T, Herr CEW, Joest M, Karagiannidis C, Klimek L, Köberle M, Kolk A, Lichtnecker H, Lob-Corzilius T, Mülleneisen N, Nowak D, Rabe U, Raulf M, Steinmann J, Steiß J-O, Stemler J, Umpfenbach U, Valtanen K, Werchan B, Willinger B, Wiesmüller GA.
Allergol Select. 2024 May 3:8:90-198. doi: 10.5414/ALX02444E. eCollection 2024

Innovative therapies for treatment of invasive fungal diseases. Invasive Mykosen – Innovative Therapien.
Mellinghoff SC, Cornely OA, Mammadova P, Sprute R, Stemler J.
Dtsch Med Wochenschr. 2024 May;149(10):560-568. doi: 10.1055/a-2132-9240. Epub 2024 Apr 24

Fungal diversity in the soil Mycobiome: Implications for ONE health.
Yiallouris A, Pana ZD, Marangos G, Tzyrka I, Karanasios S, Georgiou I, Kontopyrgia K, Triantafyllou E, Seidel D, Cornely OA, Johnson EO, Panagiotou S, Filippou C.
One Health. 2024 Apr 16:18:100720. doi: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2024.100720. eCollection 2024 Jun

Mucormycosis in the time of COVID-19: risks and challenges.
Die Mukormykose in Zeiten von COVID-19: Risiken und Herausforderungen.
Seidel D, Sal E, Nacov JA, Cornely OA, Kurzai O.
Dtsch Med Wochenschr 2024; 149(10): 569-578. doi: 10.1055/a-2139-3902

Invasive Fungal Diseases in Adult Patients in Intensive Care Unit (FUNDICU): 2024 consensus definitions from ESGCIP, EFISG, ESICM, ECMM, MSGERC, ISAC, and ISHAM.
Bassetti M , Giacobbe DR, Agvald‑Ohman C, Akova M, Alastruey‑Izquierdo A, Arikan‑Akdagli S, Azoulay E, Blot S, Cornely OA, Cuenca‑Estrella M, de Lange DW, de Rosa FG, de Waele JJ, Dimopoulos G, Garnacho‑Montero J, Hoenigl M, Kanj SS, Koehler P, Kullberg BJ, Lamoth F, Lass‑Flörl C, Maertens J, Martin‑Loeches I, Muñoz P, Poulakou G, Rello J, Sanguinetti M, Taccone FS, Timsit J-F,  Torres A, Vazquez JA, Wauters J, Asperges E, Cortegiani A, Grecchi C, Karaiskos I, Le Bihan C, Mercier T, Mortensen KL, Peghin M, Rebuffi C, Tejada S, Vena A, Zuccaro V, Scudeller L, Calandra T on behalf of the Study Group for Infections in Critically Ill Patients of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESGCIP), the Fungal Infection Study Group of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (EFISG), the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), the European Confederation of Medical Mycology (ECMM), the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium (MSGERC), the International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ISAC), the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM), the Austrian Society for Medical Mycology (ÖGMM), the Italian Society of Anesthesia, Analgesia, Reanimation, and Intensive Care (SIAARTI), the Italian Society of Anti-Infective Therapy (SITA), and the FUNDICU Collaborators.
Intensive Care Med. 2024 Apr;50(4):502-515. doi: 10.1007/s00134-024-07341-7. Epub 2024 Mar 21.

Fungal diversity in the soil Mycobiome: Implications for ONE health.
Yiallouris A, Pana ZD, Marangos G, Tzyrka I, Karanasios S, Georgiou I, Kontopyrgia K, Triantafyllou E, Seidel D, Cornely OA, Johnson EO, Panagiotou S, Filippou C.
One Health (2023), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2024.100720

Indoor mold – important considerations for medical advice to patients.
Schimmel in Innenräumen-Wichtige Aspekte bei der ärztlichen Beratung von Patientinnen und Patienten.
Hurraß J, Nowak D, Heinzow B, Joest M, Stemler J, Wiesmüller GA.
Dtsch Arztebl Int 2024; 121:265-71; DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.m2024.0018

Medical clinical diagnostics for indoor mould exposure – Update 2023 (AWMF Register No. 161/001).
AWMF-Schimmelpilz-Leitlinie „Medizinisch klinische Diagnostik bei Schimmelpilzexposition in Innenräumen” – Update 2023. AWMF-Register-Nr. 161/001.
Hurraß J, Heinzow B, Walser-Reichenbach S, Aurbach U, Becker S, Bellmann R, Bergmann K-C, Cornely OA, Engelhart S, Fischer G, Gabrio T, Herr CEW, Joest M, Karagiannidis C, Klimek L, Köberle M, Kolk A, Lichtnecker H, Lob-Corzilius T, Mülleneisen N, Nowak D, Rabe U, Raulf M, Steinmann J, Steiß J-O, Stemler J, Umpfenbach U, Valtanen K, Werchan B, Willinger B, Wiesmüller GA.
Pneumologie. 2024 Apr; 78: 1–92. doi: 10.1055/a-2194-6914

Revised ISHAM-ABPA working group clinical practice guidelines for diagnosing, classifying and treating allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis/mycoses.
Agarwal R, Singh Sehgal I, Muthu V, Denning DW, Chakrabarti A, Soundappan K, Garg M, Rudramurthy SM, Dhooria S, Armstrong-James D, Asano K, Gangneux J-P, Chotirmall SH, Salzer HJF, Chalmers JD, Godet C, Joest M, Page I, Nair P, Arjun P, Dhar R, 20, Jat KR, Joe G, Krishnaswamy UM, Mathew JL, Maturu VN, Mohan A, Nath A, Patel D, Savio J, Saxena P, Soman R, Thangakunam B, Baxter CG, Bongomin F, Calhoun WJ, Cornely OA, Douglass JA, Kosmidis C, Meis JF, Moss R, Pasqualotto AC, Seidel D, Sprute R, Prasad KT, Aggarwal AN.
Eur Respir J. 2024 Apr 4;63(4):2400061. doi: 10.1183/13993003.00061-2024. Print 2024 Apr

Survival after cryptococcosis in Germany: A retrospective multicenter cohort study of patients diagnosed between 2004 and 2021.
Kessel L, Rossaert A-C, Lingscheid T, Grothe J, Harrer T, Wyen C, Tominsk D, Bollinger T, Kehr AK, Kalbitz S, Hoffmann C, Cornely O, Koppe U, Stephan C, Rickerts V.
Int J Med Microbiol. 2024 Mar:314:151614. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2024.151614. Epub 2024 Feb 16

Aspergillus-associated diseases froman infectious diseases and allergological perspective.
Stemler J, Nacov JA, Sprute R, Cornely OA, Joest M, Becker S, Klimek L.
Allergo J Int. 2024 Mar 23; https://doi.org/10.1007/s40629-024-00286-9

Invasive Fungal Diseases in Adult Patients in Intensive Care Unit (FUNDICU): 2024 consensus definitions from ESGCIP, EFISG, ESICM, ECMM, MSGERC, ISAC, and ISHAM.
Bassetti M, Giacobbe DR, Agvald‑Ohman C, Akova M, Alastruey‑Izquierdo A, Arikan‑Akdagli S, Azoulay E, Blot S, Cornely OA, Cuenca‑Estrella M, de Lange DW, De Rosa FG, De Waele JJ, Dimopoulos G, Garnacho‑Montero J, Hoenigl M, Kanj SS, Koehler P, Kullberg BJ, Lamoth F, Lass‑Flörl C, Maertens J, Martin‑Loeches I, Muñoz P, Poulakou G, Rello J, Sanguinetti M, Taccone FS, Timsit J-F, Torres A, Vazquez JA, Wauters J, Asperges E, Cortegiani A, Grecchi C, Karaiskos I, Le Bihan C, Mercier T, Mortensen KL, Peghin M, Rebuffi C, Tejada S, Vena A, Zuccaro V, Scudeller L Calandra T, on behalf of the Study Group for Infections in Critically Ill Patients of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESGCIP), the Fungal Infection Study Group of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (EFISG), the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), the European Confederation of Medical Mycology (ECMM), the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium (MSGERC), the International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ISAC), the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM), the Austrian Society for Medical Mycology (ÖGMM), the Italian Society of Anesthesia, Analgesia, Reanimation, and Intensive Care (SIAARTI), the Italian Society of Anti-Infective Therapy (SITA), and the FUNDICU Collaborators.
Intensive Care Med. 2024 Mar 21; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-024-07341-7

Impact of climate change and natural disasters on fungal infections.
Seidel D, Wurster S, Jenks JD, Sati H, Gangneux J-P, Egger M, Alastruey-Izquierdo A, Ford NP, Chowdhary A, Sprute R, Cornely O, Thompson III GR, Hoenigl M, Kontoyiannis DP.
Lancet. 2024 Mar 19; https://doi.org/10.1016/S2666-5247(24)00039-9.

The Cologne ECMM Excellence Center: A Two-Year Analysis of External Consultation Service for Invasive Fungal Infections.
Salmanton-Garcia J, Koehler P, Grothe Jan-Hendrik, Mellinghoff SC, Sal E, Simon M, Stemler J, Cornely OA, Sprute R.
Mycopathologia. 2024 Mar 11;189(2):25. doi: 10.1007/s11046-023-00822-1.

Reply to Kidd et al., “Inconsistencies within the proposed framework for stabilizing fungal nomenclature risk further confusion”.
de Hoog S, Walsh TJ, Ahmed SA, Alastruey-Izquierdo A, Alexander BD, Cavling Arendrup M, Babady E, Bai F-Y, Balada-Llasat J-M, Borman A, Chowdhary A, Clark A, Colgrove RC, Cornely OA, Dingle TC, Dufresne PJ, Fuller J, Gangneux J-P, Gibas C, Glasgow H, Graser Y, Guillot J, Groll AH, Haase G, Hanson K, Harrington A, Hawksworth DL, Hayden RT, Hoenigl M, Hubka V, Johnson K, Kus JV , Li R, Meis JF, Lackner M, Lanternier F, Leal Jr. SM, Lee F, Lockhart SR, Luethy P, Martin I, Kwon-Chung KJ, Meyer W, Nguyen MH, Ostrosky-Zeichner L, Palavecino E, Pancholi P, Pappas PG, Procop GW, Redhead SA, Rhoads DD, Riedel S, Stevens B, Sullivan KO, Vergidis P, Roilides E, Seyedmousavi A, Tao L, Vicente VA, Vitale RG, Wang Q-M, Wengenack NL, Westblade L, Wiederhold N, White L, Wojewoda CM, Zhang SX.
J Clin Microbiol. 2024 Mar 5:e0162523. doi: 10.1128/jcm.01625-23. Online ahead of print.

Revised clinical practice guidelines for diagnosing, classifying, and treating allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis/mycoses: a Delphi statement from the ISHAM-ABPA working group.
Agarwal R, Singh Sehgal I, Muthu V, Denning DW, Chakrabarti A, Soundappan K, Garg M, Rudramurthy SM, Dhooria S, Armstrong-James D, Asano K, Gangneux J-P, Chotirmall SH, Salzer HJF, Chalmers JD, Godet C, Joest M, Page I, Nair P, Arjun P, Dhar R, Jat KR, Joe G, Krishnaswamy UM, Mathew JL, Maturu VN, Mohan A, Nath A, Patel D, Savio J, Saxena P, Soman R, Thangakunam B, Baxter CG, Bongomin F, Calhoun WJ, Cornely OA, Douglass J-A, Kosmidis C, Meis JF, Moss R, Pasqualotto AC, Seidel D, Sprute R, Prasad KT, Aggarwal AN.
Eur Respir J. 2024 Feb 29:2400061. doi: 10.1183/13993003.00061-2024. Online ahead of print.

Necrotizing pancreatitis with invasive candidiasis and candidemia due to Candida albicans and pan-echinocandin-resistant Candida glabrata.
Rahimli L, Salmanton-Garcia J, Kasper P, Simon M, Cornely OA, Stemler J.
Medical Mycology Case Reports. 2024 Feb doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr. 2024.100636

Global guideline for the diagnosis and management of cryptococcosis: an initiative of the ECMM and ISHAM in cooperation with the ASM. Chang CC, Harrison TS, Bicanic TA, Chayakulkeeree M, Sorrell TC, Warris A, Hagen F, Spec A, Oladele R, Govender NP, Chen SC, Mody CH, Groll AH, Chen Y-C, Lionakis MS, Alanio A, Castañeda E, Lizarazo J, Vidal JE, Takazono T, Hoenigl M, Alffenaar J-W, Gangneux J-P, Soman R, Zhu L-P, Bonifaz A, Jarvis JN, Day JN, Klimko N, Salmanton-García J, Jouvion G, Meya DB, Lawrence D, Rahn S, Bongomin F, McMullan BJ, Sprute R, Nyazika TK, Beardsley J, Carlesse F, Heath CH, Ayanlowo OO, Mashedi OM, Queiroz-Telles Filho F, Hosseinipour MC, Patel AK, Temfack E, Singh N, Cornely OA, Boulware DR, Lortholary O, Pappas PG, Perfect JR. Lancet Infect Dis. 2024 Feb 9:S1473-3099(23)00731-4.ndoi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(23)00731-4.Online ahead of print.

Quantification of midostaurin in plasma and serum by stable isotope dilution liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry: Application to a cohort of patients with acute myeloid leukemia.
Wiesen MHJ, Stemler J, Fietz C, Joisten C, Cornely OA, Verougstraete N, Streichert T, Müller C.
Eur J Haematol. 2024 Jan 31. doi: 10.1111/ejh.14178. Online ahead of print

Anti-GM-CSF autoantibodies predict outcome of cryptococcal meningitis in patients not infected with HIV: a cohort study.
Jiang Y-K, Zhou L-H, Cheng J-H, Zhu J-H, Luo Y, Li L, Zhu M, Zhu R-S, Qiu W-J, Zhao H-Z, Wang X, Huang J-T, Cornely OA, Zhang W-H, Zhu L-P.
Clin Microbiol Infect. 2024 Jan 29:S1198-743X(24)00040-5.doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2024.01.018. Online ahead of print

The Spectrum of Pulmonary Aspergillosis.
van Braeckel E, Cornely OA.
Semin Respir Crit Care Med. 2024;45:1–2

Multicentric Study on the Clinical Mycology Capacity and Access to Antifungal Treatment in Portugal.
Fernandes R, Sabino R, Cunha C, Cornely OA, Carvalho A, Salmanton‑García J, PT Group for IFI Management Capacity.
Mycopathologia. 2024 Jan 24;189(1):15. doi: 10.1007/s11046-024-00830-9

2023

The Nairobi Declaration 2023: A Commitment to Address Deadly Yet Neglected Fungal Diseases in Africa.
Osaigbovo I, Govender NP, Jordan AM, Bongomin F, Meya DB, Kanyua A, Mashedi OM, Koffi D, Loyse A, Sturny-Leclère A, Gangneux J-P, Denning DW, Chiller T, Cornely O, Oladele RO.
2023 Dec 28:myad141. doi: 10.1093/mmy/myad141. Online ahead of print

Unveiling the Hungarian landscape of laboratory and clinical management capacities for invasive fungal infections: navigating the frontlines against fungal menaces.
Renátó Kovács, László Majoros, Jannik Stemler, Oliver Andreas Cornely and Jon Salmanton-García.
Ther Adv Infect Dis. 2023 Dec. DOI: 10.1177/20499361231219315

Fatal pulmonary hemorrhage, pneumothorax and skin necrosis caused by IRIS to an Aspergillus flavus infection in a young patient with metamizole associated agranulocytosis.
Banz M, Stallmach A, Gaßler N, Schulze PC, Fritzenwanger M, Cornely O, Kurzai O, Pletz MW.
Infection. 2023 Dec 22. doi: 10.1007/s15010-023-02149-x. Online ahead of print

Social determinants of health as drivers of fungal disease.
Jenks JD, Prattes J, Wurster S, Sprute R, Seidel D, Oliverio M, Egger M, Del Rio C, Sati H, Cornely OA, Thompson GR, Kontoyiannis DP, Hoenigl M.
The Lancet. 2023 Nov 18. doi.org:10.1016/j.eclinm.2023.102325

Efficacy and safety of rezafungin and caspofungin in candidaemia and invasive candidiasis: pooled data from two prospective randomised controlled trials.
Thompson III GR, Soriano A, Honore PM, Bassetti M, Cornely OA, Kollef M, Kullberg BJ, Pullman J, Hites M, Fortún J, Horcajada JP, Kotanidou A, Das AF, Sandison T, Aram JA, Vazquez JA, Pappas PG.
The Lancet. 2023 Nov 23. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(23)00551-0

Questioning the 14-day dogma in candidemia treatment duration.
Salmanton-García J, Reinhold I, Prattes J, Bekaan N, Koehler P, Cornely OA.
Mycoses. 2023 Oct 27. doi: 10.1111/myc.13672. Online ahead of print.

A conceptual framework for nomenclatural stability and validity of medically important fungi: a proposed global consensus guideline for fungal name changes supported by ABP, ASM, CLSI, ECMM, ESCMID-EFISG, EUCAST-AFST, FDLC, IDSA, ISHAM, MMSA, and MSGERC.
de Hoog S, Walsh TJ, Ahmed SA, Alastruey-Izquierdo A, Alexander BD, Arendrup MC, Babady E, Bai F-Y, Balada-Llasat J-M,  Borman A, Chowdhary A, Clark A, Colgrove RC, Cornely OA, Dingle TC, Dufresne PJ, Fuller J, Gangneux J-P, Gibas C, Glasgow H, Gräser Y, Guillot J, Groll AH, Haase G, Hanson K, Harrington A,  Hawksworth DL, Hayden RT, Hoenigl M, Hubka V, Johnson K, Kus JV, Li R, Meis JF, Lackner M, Lanternier F, Leal Jr. SM, Lee F, Lockhart SR, Luethy P, Martin I, Kwon-Chung KJ, Meyer W,  Nguyen MH, Ostrosky-Zeichner L, Palavecino E, Pancholi P, Pappas PG, Procop GW, Redhead SA, Rhoads DD, Riedel S, Stevens B, Sullivan KO, Vergidis P, Roilides E, Seyedmousavi A, Tao L, Vicente VA, Vitale RG, Wang Q-M, Wengenack NL, Westblade L, Wiederhold N, White L, Wojewoda CM, Zhang SX.
J Clin Microbiol. 2023 Oct 26:e0087323. doi: 10.1128/jcm.00873-23. Online ahead of print

Invasive Mykosen in Onkologie und Hämatologie: Überlebenschance häufig nur bei sofortigem Handeln.
Stemler J, Bekaan N, Nacov J, Cornely OA.
Dtsch Arztebl 2023; 120(42): [16]; DOI: 10.3238/PersOnko.2023.10.20.03

Which trial do we need? Combination treatment of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in non-HIV infected patients.
Koehler P, Prattes J, Simon M, Haensel L, Hellmich M, Cornely OA.
Clin Microbiol Infect. 2023 Oct;29(10):1225-1228. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2023.05.004. Epub 2023 May 11.

Phase 1b safety and pharmacokinetics of intravenous and oral fosmanogepix in patients with acute myeloid leukaemia and neutropenia.
Cornely OA, Ostermann H, Koehler P, Teschner D, Limburg E, Kramer WG, Barbat SH, Tawadrous M, Hodges MR.
J Antimicrob Chemother. 2023 Sep 8;dkad269. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkad269. Online ahead of print.

Laboratory and clinical management capacity for invasive fungal infections: the Italian landscape.
Vena A, Bassetti M, Mezzogori L, Marchesi F, Hoenigl M, Giacobbe DR, Corcione S, Bartoletti M, Stemler J, Pagano L, Cornely OA, Salmanton-Garcia J.

Infection. 2023 Sep 1. doi: 10.1007/s15010-023-02084-x. Online ahead of print.

Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in intensive care units: a multicenter study by ESGCIP and EFISG.
Giacobbe DR, Dettori S, Di Pilato V, Asperges E, Ball L, Berti E, Blennow O, Bruzzone B, Calvet L, Marzani FC, Casabella A, Choudaly S, Dartevel A, De Pascale G, Di Meco G, Fallon M, Galerneau LM, Gallego M, Giacomini M, González Sáez A, Hänsel L, Icardi G, Koehler P, Lagrou K, Lahmer T, White PL, Magnasco L, Marchese A, Marelli C, Marín‑Arriaza M, Martin‑Loeches I, Mekontso‑Dessap A, Mikulska M, Mularoni A, Nordlander A, Poissy J, Russelli G, Signori A, Tascini C, Vaconsin LM, Vargas J, Vena A, Wauters J, Pelosi P, Timsit JF and Bassetti M on behalf of JIR-ICU investigators (collaborators) the Critically Ill Patients Study Group of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESGCIP), and the Fungal Infection Study Group of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (EFISG).
Crit Care. 2023 Aug 24;27(1):323. doi: 10.1186/s13054-023-04608-1.

European candidaemia is characterised by notable differential epidemiology and susceptibility pattern; Results from the ECMM Candida III study.
Arendrup MC, Arikan-Akdagli S, Jørgensen KM, Barac A, Steinmann J, Toscano C, Arsenijevic VA, Sartor A, Lass-Flörl C, Hamprecht A, Matos T, Rogers BRS, Quiles I, Buil J, Özenci V, Krause R, Bassetti M, Loughlin L, Denis B, Grancini A, White PL, Lagrou K, Willinger B, Rautemaa-Richardson R, Hamal P, Ener B, Unalan-Altintop T, Evren E, Hilmioglu-Polat S, Oz Y, Ozyurt OK, Aydin F, Růžička F, Meijer EFJ, Gangneux JP, Lockhart DEA, Khanna N, Logan C, Scharmann U, Desoubeaux G, Roilides E, Talento AF, van Dijk K, Koehler P, Salmanton-García J, Cornely OA, Hoenigl M.
J Infect. 2023 Aug 5;S0163-4453(23)00451-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2023.08.001. Online ahead of print.

The Austrian landscape of diagnostic capacity and access to treatment for invasive fungal infections.
Salmanton-García J, Hoenigl M, Salzer HJF, Lackner M, Prattes J, Dichtl K, Winkler-Zamani M, Krause R, Stemler J, Lass-Flörl C, Cornely OC, Willinger B.
Mycoses. 2023 Aug 17. doi: 10.1111/myc.13650. Online ahead of print.

Predictors for Prolonged Hospital Stay Solely to Complete Intravenous Antifungal Treatment in Patients with Candidemia: Results from the ECMM Candida III Multinational European Observational Cohort Study
Egger M, Salmanton-Garcia J, Barac A, Gangneux JP, Guegan H, Arsic-Arsenijevic V, Matos T, Tomazin R, Klimko N, Bassetti M, Hammarström H, Meijer EFJ, Meis JF, Prattes J, Krause R, Sipahi OR, Scharmann U, White PL, Desoubeaux G, García-Rodríguez J, Garcia-Vidal C, Martín-Pérez S, Ruiz M, Tumbarello M, Talento AF, Rogers B, Lagrou K, van Praet J, Arikan-Akdagli S, Arendrup MC, Koehler P, Cornely OA, Hoenigl M, on behalf of the ECMM Candida III Study Group.
Mycopathologia. 2023 Aug 11. doi: 10.1007/s11046-023-00776-4. Online ahead of print.

Primary prophylaxis of invasive fungal diseases in patients with haematological malignancies: 2022 update of the recommendations of the Infectious Diseases Working Party (AGIHO) of the German Society for Haematology and Medical Oncology (DGHO) Stemler J, Mellinghoff SC, Khodamoradi Y, Sprute R, Classen AY, Zapke SE, Hoenigl M, Krause R, Schmidt-Hieber M, Heinz WJ, Klein M, Koehler P, Liss B, Koldehoff M, Buhl C, Penack O, Maschmeyer G, Schalk E, Lass-Flörl C, Karthaus M, Ruhnke M, Cornely OA, Teschner D.
J Antimicrob Chemother. 2023 Aug 2;78(8):1813-1826. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkad143.

How to diagnose and treat a patient without human immunodeficiency virus infection having Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia?
Hänsel L, Schumacher J, Denis B, Hamane S, Cornely OA, Koehler P.
Clin Microbiol Infect. 2023 Aug;29(8):1015-1023. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2023.04.015. Epub 2023 Apr 20.

Health-economic modelling of cost savings due to the use of rezafungin based on a German cost-of-illness study of candidiasis
Jeck J, Jakobs F, Kurte MS, Cornely OA, Kron F.
JAC Antimicrob Resist. 2023 Jun https://doi.org/10.1093/jacamr/dlad079

The Argentinian landscape of mycological diagnostic capacity and treatment accessibility
Riera F, Caeiro JP, Cornely OA, Salmanton-García J.
Med Mycol. 2023 Jun https://doi.org/10.1093/mmy/myad058 Published: 13 June 2023

DoctorFungus April 2023 Case of the Month: Survival of bilateral Pulmonary Mucormycosis
Nacov J, Stemler J, Hekmat K, Simon M, Sprute R, Mellinghoff S, Schömig T, Cornely OA.
MSG ERC DoctorFungus on https://drfungus.org/april-2023-case-of-the-month/April 2023 Case of the Month – Doctor Fungus on www.drfungus.org

Characterization of Treatment Response Outcomes in Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis: CPAnet Definitions Versus the Existing Criteria
Sehgal IS, Arora K, Cornely OA, Salzer HJF, Dhooria S, Prasad KT, Garg M, Rudramurthy SM, Muthu V, Aggarwal AN, Chakrabarti A, Agarwal R.
Mycophatologia. 2023 Jun 8. doi: 10.1007/s11046-023-00751-z. Online ahead of print

The silent flucytosine shortage in Europe – not a distant problem.
Sprute R, Duda S, Liekweg A, Simon M, Cornely OA.
Lancet Reg. Health Eur. 2023;30: 100658. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2023.100658

Antifungal prophylaxis and pre-emptive therapy: When and how?
Sprute R, Nacov JA, Neofytos D, Oliverio M, Prattes J, Reinhold I, Cornely OA, Stemler J.
Mol Aspects Med. 2023 May 17;92:101190. doi: 10.1016/j.mam.2023.101190. Online ahead of print

How to diagnose and treat a patient without human immunodeficiency virus infection having Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia?
Hänsel L, Schumacher J, Denis B, Hamane S, Cornely OA, Koehler P.
Clin Microbiol Infect. 2023 Apr 20;S1198-743X(23)00186-6

Which trial do we need? Combination treatment of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in non-HIV infected patients
Koehler P, Prattes J, Simon M, Haensel L, Hellmich M, Cornely OA.
Clin Microbiol Infect. 2023 May 11;S1198-743X(23)00208-2. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2023.05.004. Online ahead of print

COVID-19-associated mucormycosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 958 cases
Özbek L, Topçu U, Manay M, Esen BH, Bektas SN, Aydın S, Özdemir B, Khostelidi SN, Klimko N, Cornely O, Zakhour J, Kanj SS, Seidel D, Hoenigl M, Ergönül Ö.
Clin Microbiol Infect. 2023 Mar 13;29(6):722-731. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2023.03.008. Online ahead of print

Diagnosis and Treatment of Invasive Aspergillosis Caused by Non-fumigatus Aspergillus spp.
Stemler J, Többen C, Lass-Flörl C, Steinmann J, Ackermann K, Rath P-M, Simon M, Cornely OA, Koehler P.
J. Fungi 2023, 9(4), 500; https://doi.org/10.3390/jof9040500

Guideline adherence and survival of patients with candidaemia in Europe: results from the ECMM Candida III multinational European observational cohort study.
Hoenigl M, Salmanton-García J, Egger M, Gangneux J-P, Bicanic T, Arikan-Akdagli S, Alastruey-Izquierdo A, Klimko N, Barac A, Özenci V, Meijer EFJ, Khanna N, Bassetti M, Rautemaa-Richardson R, Lagrou K, Adam K-M, Akalin E H, Akova M, Arsenijevic VA, Aujayeb A, Blennow O, Bretagne S, Danion F, Denis B, de Jonge NA, Desoubeaux G, Drgona L, Erben N, Gori A, Rodríguez JG, Garcia-Vidal C, Giacobbe DR, Goodman AL, Hamal P, Hammarström H, Toscano C, Lanternier F, Lass-Flörl C, Lockhart DEA, Longval T, Loughlin L, Matos T, Mikulska M, Narayanan M, Martín-Pérez S, Prattes J, Rogers B, Rahimli L, Ruiz M, Roilides E, Samarkos M, Scharmann U, Sili U, Sipahi OR, Sivakova A, Steinmann J, Trauth J, Turhan O, Van Praet J, Vena A, White PL, Willinger B, Tortorano AM, Arendrup MC, Koehler P, Cornely OA, on behalf of the ECMM Candida III Study Group.
Lancet Infect Dis. 2023 Feb doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(22)00872-6. Online ahead of print.

2022

EQUAL CPA Score 2022: a tool to measure guideline adherence for chronic pulmonary aspergillosis.
Sprute R, Van Braeckel E, Flick H, Hoenigl M, Kosmidis C, Agarwal R, Davidsen JR, Laursen CB, Cornely OA, Seidel D.
J Antimicrob Chemother. 2022 Nov 14:dkac378. doi:10.1093/jac/dkac378. Online ahead of print. PMID: 36374549
Click here to see the CPA EQUAL Scorecard available in different languages

Clinical Features and Prognostic Factors of Magnusiomyces (Saprochaete) Infections in Hematology. A Multicenter Study of SEIFEM/FungiScope.
Del Principe MI, Seidel D, Criscuolo M, Dargenio M, Rácil Z, Piedimonte M, Marchesi F, Nadali G, Koehler P, Fracchiolla N, Cattaneo C, Klimko N, Spolzino A, Karapinar DY, Demiraslan H, Duarte RF, Demeter J, Stanzani M, Melillo LMA, Basilico CM, Cesaro S, Paterno G, Califano C, Delia M, Buzzatti E, Busca A, Cornely OA*and Pagano L*, behalf of the FUNGISCOPE (Global Emerging Fungal Infection Registry) and the SEIFEM (Sorveglianza Epidemiologica Infezioni nelle Emopatie) * Equal senior contribution.
Mycoses. 2022 Sep 5. doi: 10.1111/myc.13524. Online ahead of print

Invasive Trichoderma spp. infections: clinical presentation and outcome of cases from the literature and the FungiScope® registry.
Sal E, Stemler J, Salmanton-García J, Falces-Romero I, Kredics L, Meyer E, Würstl B, Lass-Flörl C, Racil Z, Klimko N, Cesaro S, Jyoti Kindo A, Wisplinghoff H, Koehler P, Cornely OA, Seidel D.
J Antimicrob Chemother. 2022 Sep 30;77(10):2850-2858. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkac235

COVID-19-associated fungal infections.
Hoenigl M, Seidel D, Sprute R, Cunha C, Oliverio M, Goldman GH, Ibrahim AS and Carvalho A.
Nat Microbiol. 2022 Aug;7(8):1127-1140. doi: 10.1038/s41564-022-01172-2. Epub 2022 Aug 2

The emergence of COVID-19 associated mucormycosis: a review of cases from 18 countries.
Hoenigl M, Seidel D, Carvalho A, Rudramurthy SM, Arastehfar A, Gangneux JP, Nasir N, Bonifaz A, Araiza J, Klimko N, Serris A, Lagrou K, Meis JF, Cornely OA, Perfect JR, White PL, Chakrabarti A, on behalf of ECMM and ISHAM collaborators.
Lancet Microbe. 2022 Jul;3(7):e543-e552. doi: 10.1016/S2666-5247(21)00237-8. Epub 2022 Jan 25

Aspergillus tracheobronchitis in COVID-19 ARDS patients – a cohort study.
Koehler P, von Stillfried S, Borrega JG, Fuchs F, Salmanton-García J, Pult F, Böll B, Eichenauer DA, Shimabukuro-Vornhagen A, Kurzai O, Boor P, Kochanek M, Cornely OA.
Eur Respir J. 2022 May 5;59(5):2103142. doi: 10.1183/13993003.03142-2021. Print 2022 May. PMID: 35144992

EQUAL Trichosporon Score 2022: an ECMM score to measure QUALity of the clinical management of invasive Trichosporon infections.
Sprute R, Bethe U, Chen SCA, Cornely OA.
J Antimicrob Chemother. 2022 May 29;77(6):1779-1784. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkac085
Click here to see the Trichosporon EQUAL Scorecard available in different languages

Risk factors and outcome of pulmonary aspergillosis in critically ill coronavirus disease 2019 patients – a multinational observational study by the European Confederation of Medical Mycology.
Prattes J, Wauters J, Giacobbe DR, Salmanton-García J, Maertens J, Bourgeois M, Reynders M, Rutsaert L, Van Regenmortel N, Lormans P, Feys S, Reisinger AC, Cornely OA, Lahmer T, Valerio M, Delhaes L, Jabeen K, Steinmann J, Chamula M, Bassetti M, Hatzl S, Rautemaa-Richardson R, Koehler P, Lagrou K, Hoenigl M, The ECMM-CAPA Study Groupy.
Clin Microbiol Infect. 2022 Apr;28(4):580-587. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2021.08.014. Epub 2021 Aug 26

CPAnet: the challenges of gaining evidence-based knowledge in chronic pulmonary aspergillosis. 
Sprute R, Salzer HJF, Seidel D.
Eur Respir J. 2022 Apr 21;59(4):2102879. doi: 10.1183/13993003.02879-2021. Print 2022 Apr

Attributable mortality of candidemia at a German tertiary hospital from 1997 to 2001 before the introduction of echinocandins.
Blankenheim Y, Salmanton-García J, Seifert H, Cornely OA, Koehler P.
Mycoses. 2022 Feb;65(2):211-221. doi: 10.1111/myc.13406. Epub 2021 Dec 8

Results from a national survey on COVID-19-associated mucormycosis in Germany: 13 patients from six tertiary hospitals. 
Seidel D, Simon M, Sprute R, Lubnow M, Evert K, Speer C, Seeßle J, Khatamzas E, Merle U, Behrens C, Blau IW, Enghard P, Haas CS, Steinmann J, Kurzai O, Cornely OA.
Mycoses. 2022 Jan;65(1):103-109. doi: 10.1111/myc.13379. Epub 2021 Nov 16

2021

EQUAL Score Scedosporiosis/Lomentosporiosis 2021: a European Confederation of Medical Mycology (ECMM) tool to quantify guideline adherence.
Stemler J, Lackner M, Chen SCA, Hoenigl M, Cornely OA.
J Antimicrob Chemother. 2021 Dec 24;77(1):253-258. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkab355
Click here to see the Scedosporiosis/Lomentosporiosis EQUAL Scorecard available in different languages

The Antifungal Pipeline: Fosmanogepix, Ibrexafungerp, Olorofim, Opelconazole, and Rezafungin. 
Hoenigl M, Sprute R, Egger M, Arastehfar A, Cornely OA, Krause R, Lass‑Flörl C, Prattes J, Spec A, Thompson III GR, Wiederhold N, Jenks JD.
Drugs. 2021 Oct;81(15):1703-1729. doi: 10.1007/s40265-021-01611-0. Epub 2021 Oct 9

State of Medical Mycology at German Academic Medical Centres: A Survey of the German-Speaking Mycological Society (DMYKG) and the Paul-Ehrlich-Society for Chemotherapy (PEG).
Groll AH, Gordon K, Buchheidt D, Willinger B, Heinz WJ, Kurzai O, Rickerts V, Cornely OA, The Medical Mycology at German Academic Medical Centers (MMGAMC) Study Group.
Mycosis. 2021 Oct;64(10):1177-1182. doi: 10.1111/myc.13346. Epub 2021 Jul 7

Global guideline for the diagnosis and management of rare mould infections: an initiative of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology in cooperation with the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology and the American Society for Microbiology.
Hoenigl M, Salmanton-García J, Walsh TJ, Nucci M, Neoh CF, Jenks JD, Lackner M, Sprute R, Al-Hatmi AMS, Bassetti M, Carlesse F, Freiberger T, Koehler P, Lehrnbecher T, Kumar A, Prattes J, Richardson M, Revankar S, Slavin MA, Stemler J, Spiess B, Taj-Aldeen SJ, Warris A, Woo PCY, Young JH, Albus K, Arenz D, Arsic-Arsenijevic V, Bouchara JP, Chinniah TR, Chowdhary A, de Hoog GS, Dimopoulos G, Duarte RF, Hamal P, Meis JF, Mfinanga S, Queiroz-Telles F, Patterson TF, Rahav G, Rogers TR, Rotstein C, Wahyuningsih R, Seidel D, Cornely OA.
Lancet Infect Dis. 2021 Aug;21(8):e246-e257. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30784-2. Epub 2021 Feb 16

Invasive infections with Purpureocillium lilacinum: clinical characteristics and outcome of 101 cases from FungiScope® and the literature.
Sprute R, Salmanton-García J, Sal E, Malaj X, Ráčil Z, Ruiz de Alegría Puig C, Falces-Romero I, Barać A, Desoubeaux G, Jyoti Kindo A, Morris A J, Pelletier R, Steinmann J, Thompson G R, Cornely O A, Seidel D, Stemler J.
J Antimicrob Chemother. 2021 May 12;76(6):1593-1603. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkab039

Validation of the EQUAL Aspergillosis Score by analysing guideline-adherent management of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis.
Budin S, Salmanton-García J, Koehler P, Stemler J, Cornely OA, Mellinghoff SC. 
J Antimicrob Chemother. 2021 Mar 12;76(4):1070-1077. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkaa518

COVID-19-Associated Pulmonary Aspergillosis, March-August 2020.
Salmanton-García J, Sprute R, Stemler J, Bartoletti M, Dupont D, Valerio M, García-Vidal C, Falces-Romero I, Machado M, De la Villa S, Schroeder M, Hoyo I, Hanses F, Ferreira-Paim K, Roberto Giacobbe D, Meis JF, Gangneux JP, Rodríguez-Guardado A, Antinori S, Sal E, Malaj X, Seidel D, Cornely OA, Koehler P, FungiScope European Confederation of Medical Mycology/The International Society for Human and Animal Mycology Working Group.
Emerg Infect Dis. 2021;27(4):1077-1086. doi:10.3201/eid2704.204895. Epub 2021 Feb 4

Characterization and outcome of invasive infections due to Paecilomyces variotii: analysis of patients from the FungiScope® registry and literature reports.
Sprute R, Salmanton-García J, Sal E, Malaj X, Falces-Romero I, Hatvani L, Heinemann M, Klimko N, López-Soria L, Meletiadis J, Shruti M, Steinmann J, Seidel D, Cornely OA, Stemler J.
J Antimicrob Chemother. 2021 Feb 11;76(3):765-774. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkaa481

All You Need to Know and More about the Diagnosis and Management of Rare Mold Infections.
Hoenigl M, Levitz SM, Schuetz AN, Zhang SX, Cornely OA.
mBio. 2021 Feb 23;12(1):e02920-20. doi: 10.1128/mBio.02920-20

2020

Clinical and pharmacoeconomic evaluation of antifungal prophylaxis with continuous micafungin in patients undergoing allogeneic stem cell transplantation: A six-year cohort analysis.
Wingen-Heimann SM, Cornely OA, Vehreschild MJGT, Wisplinghoff H, Franke B, Schons M, von Bergwelt-Baildon M, Scheid C, Vehreschild JJ.
Mycoses. 2021 Apr;64(4):437-444. doi: 10.1111/myc.13232. Epub 2021 Jan 6

Needles in a haystack: Extremely rare invasive fungal infections reported in FungiScope Ⓡ-Global Registry for Emerging Fungal Infections.
Salmanton-García J, Koehler P, Kindo A, Falces-Romero I, García-Rodríguez J, Ráčil Z, Chen SC, Klimko N, Desoubeaux G, Thompson GR , III, Benítez-Peñuela MÁ, Rodríguez JY, Sheppard DC, Hoenigl M, Le Govic Y, Badali H, Baddley JW, Chander J, Ingram PR, Pakstis DL, Mellinghoff SC, Atıcı S, Cesaro S, Chakrabarti A, Dupont D, González GM, Hatvani L, Herbrecht R, Klyasova G, Lass-Flörl C, Mareș M, Mullane K, Vinh DC, Wisplinghoff H, Lackner M, Cornely OA, Seidel D, ECMM/ISHAM working group.
J Infect. 2020 Nov;81(5):802-815. doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2020.08.015. Epub 2020 Aug 13

Mucormycosis in the Middle East and North Africa: Analysis of the FungiScope ® registry and cases from the literature.
Stemler J, Hamed K, Salmanton-García J, Rezaei-Matehkolaei A, Gräfe SK, Sal E, Zarrouk M, Seidel D, Abdelaziz Khedr R, Ben-Ami R, Ben-Chetrit E, Roth Y, Cornely OA.
Mycoses. 2020 Oct;63(10):1060-1068. doi: 10.1111/myc.13123. Epub 2020 Aug 29

European confederation of medical mycology expert consult-An ECMM excellence center initiative.
Koehler P, Denis B, Denning DW, Gangneux JP, Hoenigl M, Kontoyiannis DP, Krause R, Lagrou K, Lass-Flörl C, Maertens J, Mareković I, Meis JF, Molina JM, Pleško S, Prattes J, Rath PM, Rautemaa-Richardson R, Richardson M, Segal E, Seidel D, Spriet I, Steinmann J, Verweij PE, Cornely OA; European Confederation of Medical Mycology (ECMM).
Mycoses. 2020 Jun;63(6):566-572. doi: 10.1111/myc.13076. Epub 2020 Apr 13

Voriconazole plus terbinafine combination antifungal therapy for invasive Lomentospora prolificans infections: analysis of 41 patients from the FungiScope® registry 2008-2019.
Jenks JD, Seidel D, Cornely OA, Chen S, van Hal S, Kauffman C, Miceli MH, Heinemann M, Christner M, Jover Sáenz A, Burchardt A, Kemmerling B, Herbrecht R, Steinmann J, Shoham S, Gräber S, Pagano L, Deeren D, Aslam S, Taplitz R, Revankar SG, Baddley J, Mehta SR, Reed S, Slavin MA, Hoenigl M.
Clin Microbiol Infect. 2020 Jun;26(6):784.e1-784.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2020.01.012. Epub 2020 Jan 20

Clinical characteristics and outcomes of invasive Lomentospora prolificans infections: Analysis of patients in the FungiScope® registry.
Jenks JD, Seidel D, Cornely OA, Chen S, van Hal S, Kauffman C, Miceli MH, Heinemann M, Christner M, Jover Sáenz A, Burchardt A, Kemmerling B, Herbrecht R, Steinmann J, Shoham S, Gräber S, Pagano L, Deeren D, Slavin MA, Hoenigl M.
Mycoses. 2020 May;63(5):437-442. doi: 10.1111/myc.13067. Epub 2020 Apr 15

Quantifying guideline adherence in mucormycosis management using the EQUAL score.
Koehler P, Mellinghoff SC, Stemler J, Otte F, Berkhoff A, Beste N, Budin S, Cornely FB, Evans JM, Fuchs F, Pesch L, Rebholz AW, Reiner O, Schmitt M, Schuckelt J, Spiertz A, Salmanton-García J, Kron F, Cornely OA.
Mycoses. 2020 Apr;63(4):343-351. doi: 10.1111/myc.13047. Epub 2020 Jan 20

Invasive Scedosporium spp. and Lomentospora prolificans infections in pediatric patients: Analysis of 55 cases from FungiScope® and the literature.
Seidel D, Hassler A, Salmanton-García J, Koehler P, Mellinghoff SC, Carlesse F, Cheng MP, Falces-Romero I, Herbrecht R, Jover Sáenz A, Klimko N, Mareş M, Lass-Flörl C, Soler-Palacín P, Wisplinghoff H, Cornely OA, Pana Z, Lehrnbecher T.
Int J Infect Dis. 2020 Mar;92:114-122. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2019.12.017. Epub 2019 Dec 19

Risk factors and mortality in invasive Rasamsonia spp. infection: Analysis of cases in the FungiScope ® registry and from the literature.
Stemler J, Salmanton-García J, Seidel D, Alexander BD, Bertz H, Hoenigl M, Herbrecht R, Meintker L, Meißner A, Mellinghoff SC, Sal E, Zarrouk M, Koehler P, Cornely OA.
Mycoses. 2020 Mar;63(3):265-274. doi: 10.1111/myc.13039. Epub 2019 Dec 10

2019

Matched-paired analysis of patients treated for invasive mucormycosis: standard treatment versus posaconazole new formulations (MoveOn).
Salmanton-García J, Seidel D, Koehler P, Mellinghoff SC, Herbrecht R, Klimko N, Ráčil Z, Falces-Romero I, Ingram P, Benítez-Peñuela MÁ, Rodríguez JY, Desoubeaux G, Barać A, García-Vidal C, Hoenigl M, Mehta SR, Cheng MP, Klyasova G, Heinz WJ, Iqbal N, Krause R, Ostermann H, Penack O, Schalk E, Sheppard DC, Willinger B, Wisplinghoff H, Vehreschild JJ, Cornely OA, Vehreschild MJGT; FungiScope® ECMM/ISHAM Working Group.
J Antimicrob Chemother. 2019 Nov 1;74(11):3315-3327. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkz344

Defining breakthrough invasive fungal infection-Position paper of the mycoses study group education and research consortium and the European Confederation of Medical Mycology.
Cornely OA, Hoenigl M, Lass‐Flörl C, Chen SCA, Kontoyiannis DP, Morrissey CO, Thompson III GR, for the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium (MSG‐ERC) and the European Confederation of Medical Mycology (ECMM).

Mycoses. 2019 Sep;62(9):716-729. doi: 10.1111/myc.12960. Epub 2019 Jul 19

Invasive Fungal Infection.
von Lilienfeld-Toal M, Wagener J, Einsele H, Cornely OA, Kurzai O.
Dtsch Arztebl Int. 2019 Apr 19;116(16):271-278.doi: 10.3238/arztebl.2019.0271.

Healthcare burden of probable and proven invasive mucormycosis: a multi-centre cost-of-illness analysis of patients treated in tertiary care hospitals between 2003 and 2016.
Koehler P, Salmanton-García J, Gräfe SK, Koehler FC, Mellinghoff SC, Seidel D, Steinbach A, Cornely OA.
J Hosp Infect. 2019 Mar;101(3):339-346. doi: 10.1016/j.jhin.2018.11.003. Epub 2018 Nov 10

Prognostic factors in 264 adults with invasive Scedosporium spp. and Lomentospora prolificans infection reported in the literature and FungiScope®.
Seidel D, Meißner A, Lackner M, Piepenbrock E, Salmanton-García J, Stecher M, Mellinghoff S, Hamprecht A, Durán Graeff L, Köhler P, Cheng MP, Denis J, Chedotal I, Chander J, Pakstis DL, Los-Arcos I, Slavin M, Montagna MT, Caggiano G, Mares M, Trauth J, Aurbach U, Vehreschild MJGT, Vehreschild JJ, Duarte RF, Herbrecht R, Wisplinghoff H, Cornely OA; FungiScope Group.
Crit Rev Microbiol. 2019 Feb;45(1):1-21. doi: 10.1080/1040841X.2018.1514366. Epub 2019 Jan 10

2018

Treatment outcomes in patients with proven/probable vs possible invasive mould disease in a phase III trial comparing isavuconazole vs voriconazole.
Maertens J, Selleslag D, Heinz WJ, Saulay M, Rahav G, Giladi M, Aoun M, Kovanda L, Kaufhold A, Engelhardt M, Cornely OA, Herbrecht R, Ullmann AJ.
Mycoses. 2018 Nov;61(11):868-876. doi: 10.1111/myc.12831. Epub 2018 Aug 13.

2017

FungiScope™ — Global Emerging Fungal Infection Registry.
Seidel D, Durán Graeff L, Vehreschild MJGT, Wisplinghoff H, Ziegler M, Vehreschild JJ, Liss B, Hamprecht A, Köhler P, Racil Z, Klimko N, Sheppard D, Herbrecht R, Chowdhary A, Cornely OA; FungiScope Group.
Mycoses. 2017 Aug;60(8):508-516. doi: 10.1111/myc.12631

Invasive infections due to Saprochaete and Geotrichum species: Report of 23 cases from the FungiScope Registry.
Durán Graeff L, Seidel D, Vehreschild MJGT, Hamprecht A, Kindo A, Racil Z, Demeter J, De Hoog S, Aurbach U, Ziegler M, Wisplinghoff H, Cornely OA; FungiScope Group.
Mycoses. 2017 Apr;60(4):273-279. doi: 10.1111/myc.12595. Epub 2017 Feb 2

Disseminated Fusariosis in Immunocompromised Children – Analysis of Recent Cases Identified in the Global FungiScope Registry.
Hassler A, Lieb A, Seidel D, Simone Cesaro S, Greil J, Klimko N, Khostelidi S, Solopova G, Ogunc D, Durán Graeff L, Cornely OA, Vehreschild MJGT, Lehrnbecher T. 
Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2017 Feb;36(2):230-231. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000001396

2016

Invasive mucormycosis in children: an epidemiologic study in European and non-European countries based on two registries.
Pana ZD, Seidel D, Skiada A, Groll AH, Petrikkos G, Cornely OA, Roilides E; Collaborators of Zygomyco.net and/or FungiScope™ Registries.
BMC Infect Dis. 2016 Nov 10;16(1):667. doi: 10.1186/s12879-016-2005-1

Diagnosis of invasive fungal infections in haematological patients by combined use of galactomannan, 1,3-β-D-glucan, Aspergillus PCR, multifungal DNA-microarray, and Aspergillus azole resistance PCRs in blood and bronchoalveolar lavage samples: results of a prospective multicentre study.
Boch T, Spiess B, Cornely OA, Vehreschild JJ, Rath PM, Steinmann J, Heinz WJ, Hahn J, Krause SW, Kiehl MG, Eherer G, Liebregts T, Koldehoff M, Klein M, Nolte F, Mueller MC, Merker N, Will S, Mossner M, Popp H, Hofmann WK, Reinwald M, Buchheidt D.
Clin Microbiol Infect. 2016 Oct;22(10):862-868. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2016.06.021. Epub 2016 Jul 5.

The VITAL study: case control studies are hypothesis-generating.
Cornely OA, Maher RM, Marty FM, Lee M, Vehreschild JJ, Vehreschild MJ.
Lancet Infect Dis. 2016 Aug;16(8):886-7. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(16)30192-X

Isavuconazole treatment for mucormycosis: a single-arm open-label trial and case-control analysis.
Marty FM, Ostrosky-Zeichner L, Cornely OA, Mullane KM, Perfect JR, Thompson GR 3rd, Alangaden GJ, Brown JM, Fredricks DN, Heinz WJ, Herbrecht R, Klimko N, Klyasova G, Maertens JA, Melinkeri SR, Oren I, Pappas PG, Ráčil Z, Rahav G, Santos R, Schwartz S, Vehreschild JJ, Young JA, Chetchotisakd P, Jaruratanasirikul S, Kanj SS, Engelhardt M, Kaufhold A, Ito M, Lee M, Sasse C, Maher RM, Zeiher B, Vehreschild MJ; VITAL and FungiScope Mucormycosis Investigators.
Lancet Infect Dis. 2016 Jul;16(7):828-837. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(16)00071-2. Epub 2016 Mar 9

Epidemiology of invasive aspergillosis and azole resistance in patients
with acute leukaemia: the SEPIA Study.

Koehler P, Hamprecht A, Bader O, Bekeredjian-Ding I, Buchheidt D, Doelken G, Elias J, Haase G, Hahn-Ast C, Karthaus M, Kekulé A, Keller P, Kiehl M, Krause SW, Krämer C, Neumann S, Rohde H, La Rosée P, Ruhnke M, Schafhausen P, Schalk E, Schulz K, Schwartz S, Silling G, Staib P, Ullmann A, Vergoulidou M, Weber T, Cornely OA, Vehreschild MJGT.
Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2017 Feb;49(2):218-223. doi: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2016.10.019. Epub 2016 Dec 12

2014

Improvement in the outcome of invasive fusariosis in the last decade.
Nucci M, Marr K, Vehreschild M, de Souza C, Velasco E, Cappelano P, Carlesse F, Queiroz-Telles F, Sheppard D, Kindo A, Cesaro S, Hamerschlak N, Solza C, Heinz W, Schaller M, Atalla A, Arikan-Akdagli S, Bertz H, Castro Jr C, Herbrecht R, Hoenigl M, Härter G, Hermansen NE, Josting A, Pagano L, Salles M, Mossad SB, Ogunc D, Pasqualotto A, Araujo V, Troke P, Lortholary O, Cornely O, Anaissie E.
Clin Microbiol Infect. 2014 Jun;20(6):580-5. doi: 10.1111/1469-0691.12409. Epub 2013 Nov 18

2013

Combined antifungal approach for the treatment of invasive mucormycosis in patients with hematological diseases: a report from the SEIFEM and FUNGISCOPE registries.
Pagano L, Cornely O, Caira M, Cesaro S, Gasbarrino C, Girmenia C, Heinz WJ, Herbrecht R, Lass-Flörl C, Nosari A, Potenza L, Racil Z, Rickerts V, Sheppard DC, Simon A, Ullmann AJ, Valentini CG, Vehreschild JJ, Candoni A, Vehreschild MJ.
Haematologica. 2013 Oct;98(10):e127-30. doi: 10.3324/haematol.2012.083063. Epub 2013 May 28

Right flank pain and high fever in a neutropenic patient with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
Christopeit M, Lindner A, Surov A, Weber T, Vehreschild MJ, Bialek R, Schmoll HJ.
Mycoses. 2013 Jan;56(1):90-2. doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2012.02231.x. Epub 2012 Aug 13

2011

Making moulds meet. Information retrieval as a basis for understanding Pseudallescheria and Scedosporium.
de Hoog GS, Robert V, Lackner M, Vehreschild MJ, Vehreschild JJ, Symoens F, Göttlich-Fligg E, Garcia-Hermoso D, Harun A, Meyer W, Chen SC, Hamprecht A, Fischer G, Buzina W, Cornely OA, Guarro J, Cano J, Horré R.
Mycoses. 2011 Oct;54 Suppl 3:1-4. doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2011.02122.x

2010

Forty-one Recent Cases of Invasive Zygomycosis from a Global Clinical Registry.
Rüping MJGT, Heinz WJ, Kindo AJ, Rickerts V, Lass-Flörl C, Beisel C, Herbrecht R, Roth Y, Silling G, Ullmann AJ, Borchert K, Egerer G, Maertens J, Maschmeyer G, Simon A, Wattad M, Fischer G, Vehreschild JJ, Cornely OA.
J Antimicrob Chemother. 2010 Feb;65(2):296-302. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkp430. Epub 2009 Dec 11

2008

Posaconazole concentrations in the central nervous system.
Rüping MJGT, Albermann N, Ebinger F, Burckhard I, Beisel C, Müller C, Vehreschild JJ, Kochanek M, Fätkenheuer G, Bangard C, Ullmann AJ, Herr W, Kolbe K, Hallek M, Cornely OA.
J Antimicrob Chemother. 2008 Dec;62(6):1468-70. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkn409. Epub 2008 Sep 28

Talks

2022, Sep

ISHAM 2022, New Delhi, India (Presentation: Global guideline in management, Lomentosporiosis, Azole-resistance in

Aspergillus fumigatus, Rasamsonia and Paecilomyces/Purpureocillium)

2021, Oct

TIMM, Virtual conference, Aberdeen, United Kingdom (Presentation, Abstracts: CPAepi, Trichoderma, Saprochaete spp.)

2021, Jul

ECCMID 2021, Virtual conference (Abstract Trichoderma)

2021, Jun

KIT2021, Virtual conference, Mannheim, Germany (Abstracts: Gastrointestinal mucormycosis and Trichoderma analyses from FungiScope)

2019, Nov

ISHAM, Salvador, Brazil (Abstracts Rasamsonia spp., FungiScope Aspergillus)

2019, Jun 20

24ASM Microbe, San Francisco, USA (Poster MoveOn)

2019, May 24

XXIII SEIMC National Congress, Madrid, Spain (Abstract: FungiScope)

2019, Apr 13

1629th ECCMID, Amsterdam, Netherlands (ESCMID Networking Corner FungiScope, Poster MoveOn)

Authorship Policy

We publish together. Authorship is restricted to those centers contributing cases or translational work or specimens to the subset published. For each contributing center there will be authorship positions available.