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AN UPDATE ON FUSARIUM INFECTIONS IN HUMANS

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CHAPTER ONE                                                                                                         1

1.0       Introduction                                                                                                   1

1.2       Pathogenicity of Fusarium sp.                                                                        1

1.3       Virulence Factors                                                                                           7

1.4       Prevalence of Fusarium spp.                                                                          8

CHAPTER TWO                                                                                                                                            9

2.1       Epidemiology and Clinical Spectrum of Fusariosis                                       9

2.2       Fusarium Infections in Humans                                                                     10

2.2.1    Clinical Manifestations of Fusariosis in Humans                                           11

2.2.2    Disseminated Infection                                                                                   15

2.2.3    Host Defenses                                                                                                 16

CHAPTER THREE                                                                                                                                        18

3.1       Mycotoxins caused by fusarium spp.                                                             18

3.2       Occurrence of Fusarium Toxins                                                                     18

3.3       Clinical Manifestations                                                                                  19

3.4       Clinical Effects of FusariumToxins                                                                19

3.5       Fumonisins                                                                                                     20

3.6       Horses                                                                                                             20

3.7       Diagnosis of Fusariosis                                                                                   21

CHAPTER FOUR: Prognosis and Treatment of Fusariosis                                       24

4.1       Prognosis of Fusariosis                                                                                   24

4.2       Treatment of Fusariosis                                                                                  24

4.2.1    Localized Infection                                                                                         25

4.2.2    Invasive and Disseminated Infection.                                                            25

4.2.3    Voriconazole Treatment                                                                                 28

4.3       Prevention of Fusarium Infection                                                                  28

Reference                                                                                                                    30

 

Abstract

Fusarium is a genus of filamentous fungi that contains many agronomically important plant pathogens, mycotoxin producers, and opportunistic human pathogens. Fusarium is a cosmopolitan genus of filamentous Ascomycete fungi (Sordariomycetes: Hypocreales: Nectriaceae) that includes many toxin-producing plant pathogens of agricultural importance. Collectively, Fusarium diseases include wilts, blights, rots, and cankers of many horticultural, field, ornamental, and forest crops in both agricultural and natural ecosystems. Fusarium also produce a diverse array of toxic secondary metabolites (mycotoxins), such as trichothecenes and fumonisins that can contaminate agricultural products, making them unsuitable for food or feed. Trichothecenes can also act as virulence factors in plant diseases . Although opportunistic Fusarium infections (fusarioses) of humans and other animals are relatively rare, they typically show broad resistance to antifungal drugs.

            In humans, Fusarium species cause a broad spectrum of infections, including superficial (such as keratitis and onychomycosis), locally invasive, or disseminated infections, with the last occurring almost exclusively in severely immunocompromised patients. Fusarium species may also cause allergic diseases (sinusitis) in immunocompetent individuals and mycotoxicosis in humans and animals following ingestion of food contaminated by toxin-producing Fusarium spp..           

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