Editorial: Fungal virulence

Jaime David Acosta-España^{1

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3

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5}, Antonio José de Jesus Evangelista^{6

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8}, Jonathas Sales de Oliveira⁹, Rosana Serpa^{10

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Affiliations

¹ Health Sciences Faculty, Universidad Internacional SEK (UISEK), Quito, Ecuador.
² School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.
³ Institute of Microbiology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany.
⁴ Research Group of Emerging and Neglected Diseases, Ecoepidemiology and Biodiversity, Health Sciences Faculty, Universidad Internacional SEK (UISEK), Quito, Ecuador.
⁵ Centro de Investigación para la Salud en América Latina (CISeAL), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.
⁶ Clinical Mycology in the Biomedicine Course, Centro Universitário Christus (UNICHRISTUS), Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.
⁷ Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, School of Medicine, Institute of Medical Education (IDOMED), Canindé, Ceará, Brazil.
⁸ Researcher at the Virulence and Microbial Pathogenicity Research Group, Federal University of Ceará (UFC), Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.
⁹ Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology of Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.
¹⁰ Department of Microbiology and General Biology, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Sul, Viamão, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
¹¹ Coordination of the Higher Technological Course in Environmental Management, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Sul, Viamão, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Editorial

Jaime David Acosta-España et al. Front Fungal Biol. 2025.

. 2025 Jan 3:5:1530202.

doi: 10.3389/ffunb.2024.1530202. eCollection 2024.

Jaime David Acosta-España^{1

2

3

4

5}, Antonio José de Jesus Evangelista^{6

7

8}, Jonathas Sales de Oliveira⁹, Rosana Serpa^{10

11}

¹ Health Sciences Faculty, Universidad Internacional SEK (UISEK), Quito, Ecuador.
² School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.
³ Institute of Microbiology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany.
⁴ Research Group of Emerging and Neglected Diseases, Ecoepidemiology and Biodiversity, Health Sciences Faculty, Universidad Internacional SEK (UISEK), Quito, Ecuador.
⁵ Centro de Investigación para la Salud en América Latina (CISeAL), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.
⁶ Clinical Mycology in the Biomedicine Course, Centro Universitário Christus (UNICHRISTUS), Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.
⁷ Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, School of Medicine, Institute of Medical Education (IDOMED), Canindé, Ceará, Brazil.
⁸ Researcher at the Virulence and Microbial Pathogenicity Research Group, Federal University of Ceará (UFC), Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.
⁹ Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology of Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.
¹⁰ Department of Microbiology and General Biology, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Sul, Viamão, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
¹¹ Coordination of the Higher Technological Course in Environmental Management, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Sul, Viamão, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

No abstract available

Keywords: climate change; fungal infections; pathogenic fungi; thermotolerance; virulence factors.

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted without commercial or financial relationships that could create a conflict of interest.

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