List of WHO fungal priority pathogens
{{Short description|A list of fungal pathogens deemed high priority by the World Health Organization}}
WHO fungal priority pathogens are groups of pathogenic fungi that the World Health Organization deems in need of global attention.{{cite book |url=https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240060241 |website=World Health Organization |access-date=27 October 2022 |language=En |format=PDF |isbn=978-92-4-006024-1 |date=25 October 2022 |title=WHO fungal priority pathogens list to guide research, development and public health action |archive-date=26 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221026235331/https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240060241 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.clinicallab.com/who-releases-first-ever-list-of-health-threatening-fungi-26824 |access-date=27 October 2022 |language=en |title=WHO Releases First-Ever List of Health-Threatening Fungi |archive-date=27 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221027171131/https://www.clinicallab.com/who-releases-first-ever-list-of-health-threatening-fungi-26824 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.who.int/news/item/25-10-2022-who-releases-first-ever-list-of-health-threatening-fungi |access-date=27 October 2022 |language=en |title=WHO releases first-ever list of health-threatening fungi |archive-date=26 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221026221730/https://www.who.int/news/item/25-10-2022-who-releases-first-ever-list-of-health-threatening-fungi |url-status=live }}{{cite journal |last1=Parums |first1=Dinah V. |title=Editorial: The World Health Organization (WHO) Fungal Priority Pathogens List in Response to Emerging Fungal Pathogens During the COVID-19 Pandemic |journal=Medical Science Monitor |date=1 December 2022 |volume=28 |pages=e939088 |doi=10.12659/MSM.939088 |pmid=36453055 |pmc=9724454 |url=https://ftp.medscimonit.com/abstract/full/idArt/939088 |access-date=14 January 2023 |language=en |issn=1643-3750 |archive-date=14 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230114171035/https://ftp.medscimonit.com/abstract/full/idArt/939088 |url-status=live }}
The list has three priority groups. In decreasing order of concern, they are: critical, high, and medium.
Critical group
File:Cryptococcus neoformans growth on SDA and Urease test Positive.jpg|Cryptococcus neoformans
File:Candida-auris 2016-250px.jpg|Candida auris
File:Aspergillus fumigatus (257 15).jpg|Aspergillus fumigatus
File:Candida albicans under microscope.jpg|Candida albicans
High group
- Nakaseomyces glabrata (formerly Candida glabrata)
- Histoplasma spp.
- Histoplasma capsulatum{{Cite web|url=https://www.mycobank.org/page/Name+details+page/56704|website=www.mycobank.org|access-date=2022-11-06|archive-date=2023-01-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230110124442/https://www.mycobank.org/page/Name+details+page/56704|url-status=live|title= Histoplasma}}
- Histoplasma capsulatum var. capsulatum{{cite web | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Tree&id=5036&lvl=3&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock | title=Taxonomy browser (Histoplasma) | access-date=2022-10-31 | archive-date=2022-10-31 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221031193818/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Tree&id=5036&lvl=3&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock | url-status=live }}
- Histoplasma capsulatum var. duboisii
- Histoplasma capsulatum var. farciminosum
- Histoplasma duboisii
- Histoplasma muris
- Eumycetoma causative agents, including:
- Acremonium falciform
- Acremonium kiliense
- Acremonium recifei
- Aspergillus flavusJ. Alexandro Bonifaz Trujillo, Micología médica básica. México: McGraw Hill; 2010. ISBN 978-607-15-0744-0
- Aspergillus nidulans
- Cladophialophora bantiana
- Cladophialophora mycetomatis
- Curvularia geniculata
- Curvularia lunata
- Cylindrocarpon cyanescens
- Exophiala jeanselmei
- Falciformispora senegalensis
- Fusarium moniliforme
- Fusarium solani
- Glenospora clapieri
- Leptosphaeria senegalensis
- Leptosphaeria tompkinsii
- Madurella grisea
- Madurella mycetomatis{{cite journal |last1=Estrada |first1=Roberto |last2=Chávez-López |first2=Guadalupe |last3=Estrada-Chávez |first3=Guadalupe |last4=López-Martínez |first4=Rubén |last5=Welsh |first5=Oliverio |title=Eumycetoma |journal=Clinics in Dermatology |date=July 2012 |volume=30 |issue=4 |pages=389–396 |doi=10.1016/j.clindermatol.2011.09.009 |pmid=22682186 |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22682186/ |issn=1879-1131 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2021-06-13 |archive-date=2021-06-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613175931/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22682186/ |url-status=live}}{{cite web |title=ICD-11 – ICD-11 for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics |url=https://icd.who.int/browse11/l-m/en#/http%3a%2f%2fid.who.int%2ficd%2fentity%2f1866587875 |website=icd.who.int |access-date=9 June 2021 |archive-date=1 August 2018 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180801205234/https://icd.who.int/browse11/l-m/en%23/http://id.who.int/icd/entity/294762853#/http%3a%2f%2fid.who.int%2ficd%2fentity%2f1866587875 |url-status=live}}
- Microsporum audouinii
- Microsporum canis
- Neotestudina rosatii
- Phaeoacremonium parasiticum
- Phialophora cyanescens
- Phialophora verrucosa
- Scedosporium (ex. Pseudoalleschia) boydii
- Pyrenochaeta mackinonii
- Pyrenochaeta romeroi
- Trichophyton rubrum
- Zopfia rosatii
- Mucorales
- includes 13 families, 56 genera, 300 species{{cite web | url=https://www.mycolog.com/chapter3b.html#mucorales | title=Chapter 3b Zygomycota | access-date=2022-10-31 | archive-date=2022-04-01 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220401094744/http://mycolog.com/chapter3b.html#mucorales | url-status=live }}
- Fusarium spp.
- see List of Fusarium species
- Candida tropicalis
- Candida parapsilosis
file:Glabrata.jpg|Nakaseomyces glabrata
File:Histoplasma capsulatum (8538519681).jpg|Histoplasma capsulatum
File:Histoplasma capsulatum var. duboisii. PHIL 4221 lores.jpg|Histoplasma capsulatum var. duboisii
File:Acremonium falciforme PHIL 4167 lores.jpg|Acremonium falciforme
File:Aspergillus flavus in petri dish.png|Aspergillus flavus
File:Aspergillus nidulans.jpg|Aspergillus nidulans
File:Cladophialophora bantiana UAMH10767.jpg|Cladophialophora bantiana
File:Curvularia geniculata 01.jpg|Curvularia geniculata
File:Curvularia lunata.jpg|Curvularia lunata
File:Fusarium solani (257 25) Cultured and stained deuteromycetes.jpg|Fusarium solani
File:Madurella grisea PHIL 4158 lores.jpg|Madurella grisea
File:Madurella mycetomatis UAMH9528.jpg|Madurella mycetomatis
File:Terminal chlamydospores of the fungus Microsporum audouinii PHIL 3054 lores.jpg|Microsporum audouinii
File:Mcanis3220.jpg|Microsporum canis
File:Conidia-laden conidiophores of Phialophora verrucosa PHIL 4238 lores.jpg|Phialophora verrucosa
File:Pseudoallescheria boydii infection 3.jpg|Pseudoallescheria boydii
File:Trichophyton rubrum microconidia.jpg|Trichophyton rubrum
File:MYA3404 Ctropicalis WT.png|Candida tropicalis
Medium group
- Scedosporium spp., including:{{Cite web|url=https://www.mycobank.org/page/Name+details+page/field/Mycobank+#/9794|website=www.mycobank.org|access-date=2022-10-31|archive-date=2023-01-10|title= Scedosporium |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230110124438/https://www.mycobank.org/page/Name+details+page/field/Mycobank+#/9794|url-status=live}}
- Scedosporium americanum
- Scedosporium apiospermum
- Scedosporium aurantiacum
- Scedosporium boydii
- Scedosporium cereisporum
- Scedosporium deficiens
- Scedosporium dehoogii
- Scedosporium desertorum
- Scedosporium magalhaesii
- Scedosporium minutisporum
- Scedosporium prolificans
- Scedosporium rarisporum
- Scedosporium sanyaense
- Lomentospora prolificans
- Coccidioides spp., including:{{Cite web|url=https://www.mycobank.org/page/Name+details+page/field/Mycobank+#/7712|website=www.mycobank.org|access-date=2022-10-31|archive-date=2022-10-31|title= Coccidioides |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221031201711/https://www.mycobank.org/page/Name+details+page/field/Mycobank+#/7712|url-status=live}}
- Coccidioides immitis
- Coccidioides posadasii
- Pichia kudriavzevii (formerly Candida krusei)
- Cryptococcus gattii
- Talaromyces marneffei
- Pneumocystis jirovecii
- Paracoccidioides spp., including:{{Cite web|url=https://www.mycobank.org/page/Name+details+page/57080|website=www.mycobank.org|access-date=2022-10-31|archive-date=2022-10-31|title= Paracoccidioides |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221031201722/https://www.mycobank.org/page/Name%20details%20page/57080|url-status=live}}
- Paracoccidioides americana
- Paracoccidioides brasiliensis
- Paracoccidioides cerebriformis
- Paracoccidioides ceti
- Paracoccidioides lutzii
- Paracoccidioides restrepoana
- Paracoccidioides venezuelensis
File:Scedosporium prolificans.jpg| Scedosporium prolificans
File:Lomentospora Family Portrait.jpg| Lomentospora prolificans
File:Coccidioides immitis microscopy.jpg| Coccidioides immitis
File:Growth-on-Sabouraud-dextrose-agar.jpg|Pichia kudriavzevii
File:Cryptococcus gattii selection.jpg|Cryptococcus gattii
File:Penicillium marneffei colony.jpg|Talaromyces marneffei
File:Pneumocystisjiroveci.jpg|Pneumocystis jirovecii
File:Paracoccidioides brasiliensis slant culture.jpg|Paracoccidioides brasiliensis
File:Paracoccidioides lutzii.png|Paracoccidioides lutzii