"Fungal Diseases: An Emerging Threat to Human, Animal, and Plant Health" (Repost)

This issue explores the scientific and policy dimensions associated with the causes and consequences of emerging fungal diseases.

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.

Contents

Workshop Overview
Workshop Overview References
Appendixes
A Contributed Manuscripts
A1 The Emergence of Cryptococcus gattii in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest
A2 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Fungi Mold Your World
A3 The Fungi: 1, 2, 3 … 5.1 Million Species?
A4 Bat White-Nose Syndrome in North America
A5 Mammalian Endothermy Optimally Restricts Fungi and Metabolic Costs
A6 Vertebrate Endothermy Restricts Most Fungi as Potential Pathogens
A7 Surveillance for Emerging Diseases in Wildlife
A8 Geography, Climate, Dust, and Disease: Epidemiology of Valley Fever (Coccidioidomycosis) and Ways It Might Be Controlled
A9 Cryptococcus gattii: An Emerging Pathogen in the United States
A10 Sexual Reproduction, Evolution, and Adaptation of Cryptococcus gattii in the Pacific Northwest Outbreak
A11 Yeast Infections—Human Genetics on the Rise
A12 The Increased Risk of Global Wheat Rust Pandemics: Putting Yellow Rust into Perspective
A13 Fungal Pathogenesis in Plants and Animals: Similarities and Differences
A14 Climate, Globalization, and Trade: Impacts on Dispersal and Invasion of Fungal Plant Pathogens
A15 Emerging Fungal Diseases of Wild Animal Species
A16 The Emergence of Phytophthora ramorum in North America and Europe
A17 Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events, and Fungal Disease Emergence and Spread
A18 Host-Pathogen Dynamics of Amphibian Chytridiomycosis: The Role of the Skin Microbiome in Health and Disease
A19 The Effect of Trade-Mediated Spread of Amphibian Chytrid on Amphibian Conservation
A20 White-Nose Syndrome Fungus (Geomyces destructans) in Bats, Europe
A21 Pan-European Distribution of White-Nose Syndrome Fungus (Geomyces destructans) Not Associated with Mass Mortality
B Agenda
C Acronyms
D Glossary
E Forum Member Biographies
F Speaker Biographies