Abstract
Fungi are responsible for a wide array of superficial to disseminated, occasionally deadly, infections in humans. Notably, the past three decades have seen a dramatic rise in systemic infections resulting from opportunistic fungal pathogens, such as Candida albicans, Aspergillus fumigatus, and Cryptococcus neoformans. This rise in infections is a consequence of the AIDS epidemics as well as the increasing number of immunocompromised individuals in the hospital. The main fungal pathogens and the diseases they cause, the immune defenses that counteract fungal pathogens, the molecular aspects of fungal pathogenicity, the antifungal molecules and mechanisms of resistance developed by pathogenic fungi toward these drugs are presented.
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