Clinical Resources

Highlights

View webinars featuring leading experts in fungal diseases from around the world, access tools and information for healthcare providers, and hear from 星空娱乐官网 experts on podcasts covering a range of fungal disease topics.

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Webinars

星空娱乐官网 and WHO

星空娱乐官网 and the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA)

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CE credit: 1 AVMA CE Credit

星空娱乐官网 and International League of Dermatological Societies

US 星空娱乐官网 and Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative

星空娱乐官网 with Minnesota Department of Health, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, and Wisconsin Department of Health Services

星空娱乐官网, and University of California- Berkeley, and California Department of Public Health

World Health Organization, 星空娱乐官网, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), & National Institute for Communicable Diseases, South Africa

星空娱乐官网 and WHO.

Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA) Call featuring new diagnostic algorithms for endemic fungal diseases.

Fungal Diseases in a Changing Environment

John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Imperial College School of Public Health (UK), Northern Arizona University Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, and 星空娱乐官网.

Communication resources

Find a larger collection of communication resources including more fact sheets, animated videos, social media graphics, and access to Fungal Disease Awareness Week campaign material.

Health professional fact sheets and job aids

Map of the United States showing 星空娱乐官网’s current estimates of where the fungi that cause blastomycosis, coccidioidomycosis (Valley fever), and histoplasmosis live in the environment
Testing Algorithms for Fungal Pneumonias
Find 3 clinical algorithms to guide testing and treatment for endemic community-acquired pneumonias.

Laboratory resources

Lab working with beakers and a microscope
Fungal Disease Laboratories
Find lab protocols for fungal diagnostics and testing and submit specimens.

Online trainings

Podcasts

  • Dr. Tom Chiller, Chief of the Mycotic Diseases Branch, gives an overview of emerging fungal diseases and potential future threats including the lack of approved antifungal medications, increasing antifungal resistance, and the impacts of climate change. A patient and her doctor talk about her battle with Valley fever. Former NFL tight end Rob Gronkowski discusses the personal reasons he is concerned about the illness.
  • Dr. Nancy Chow, Deputy Chief of the Mycotic Diseases Branch talks to the Lancet about theFindings indicate that multiple lineages of the fungus S. brasiliensis lead to the to the epidemic of cat-to-cat and cat-to-human transmitted sporotrichosis in Brazil.
  • Dr. Tom Chiller, Chief of the Mycotic Diseases Branch, discusses the importance of increasing awareness about the risk of fungal infections, including of symptoms of these infections.
  • Dr. Shawn Lockhart, a lead research microbiologist at 星空娱乐官网, discusses the history of the fungus Cryptococcus gattii in the southeastern United States.
  • Kaitlin Benedict, a 星空娱乐官网 epidemiologist, discusses Coccidioides and Valley fever.
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