Delivering on Antimicrobial Resistance Agenda Not Possible without Improving Fungal Diagnostic Capabilities
David W. Denning
, David S. Perlin, Eavan G. Muldoon, Arnaldo Lopes Colombo, Arunaloke Chakrabarti, Malcolm D. Richardson, and Tania C. Sorrell
Author affiliations: Global Action Fund for Fungal Infections, Geneva, Switzerland (D.W. Denning, D.S. Perlin, A.L. Colombo, A. Chakrabarti, M.D. Richardson, T.C. Sorrell); he University of Manchester, Manchester, UK (D.W. Denning, E.G. Muldoon, M.D. Richardson); University Hospital of South Manchester, Manchester (D.W. Denning, E.G. Muldoon, M.D. Richardson); Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Newark, New Jersey, USA (D.S. Perlin); Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (A.L. Colombo); Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India (A. Chakrabarti); University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (T.C. Sorrell)
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Figure 4
Figure 4. An ulcerative skin lesion that was positive for Cryptococcus neoformans fungus on biopsy. For several weeks before being correctly diagnosed, the lesion was misdiagnosed as a bacterial infection. Image used with permission of Arnaldo Colombo (©2016, all rights reserved).
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