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Print/export Download as PDF ... WHO fungal priority pathogens are groups of pathogenic fungi that the World Health ... critical, high, and medium. [1] [4] Critical group
Infectious keratitis generally requires urgent antibacterial, antifungal, or antiviral therapy to eliminate the pathogen. No Kingella kingae: Kingella kingae infection No PRNP: Kuru: Autopsy None No Lassa virus: Lassa fever: Laboratory testing Supportive No Legionella pneumophila: Legionellosis (Legionnaires' disease) Urinary antigen test ...
Print/export Download as PDF ... This is a list of bacteria that are significant in medicine. For ... List of human diseases associated with infectious pathogens
The WHO maintains a list of “priority pathogens” that “pose the greatest public health risk due to their epidemic potential and/or whether there are no, or insufficient, countermeasures ...
A public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC / f eɪ k / FAYK) is a formal declaration by the World Health Organization (WHO) of "an extraordinary event which is determined to constitute a public health risk to other States through the international spread of disease and to potentially require a coordinated international response", formulated when a situation arises that is ...
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Like many fungal pathogens it mostly affects immunocompromised people; if in the blood or other organs and tissues, mortality is about 50%. [3] Other species of Candida may be pathogenic as well, including Candida stellatoidea, C. tropicalis, C. pseudotropicalis, C. krusei, C. parapsilosis, and C. guilliermondii. [9]
In December 2015, the World Health Organization held a workshop on prioritization of pathogens "for accelerated R&D for severe emerging diseases with potential to generate a public health emergency, and for which no, or insufficient, preventive and curative solutions exist." [46] The result was a list containing the following six diseases: