Quality of Life, Disability, and Fungal Neglected Tropical Diseases.

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• Alternative Title:
  Current Fungal Infection Reports, 2025, v. 19, no. 1: Quality of Life, Disability, and Fungal Neglected Tropical Diseases.
• Journal Article:
  Current Fungal Infection Reports
• Personal Author:
  Cavanaugh, Alyson M. ; Ribeiro dos Santos, Amanda ; Freitas, Dayvison Francis Saraiva ; Venturini, James ; Fahal, Ahmed ; Azevedo, Conceição ; Gold, Jeremy A. W.
• Description:
  This review summarizes current literature about the disability burden of the fungal neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) sporotrichosis, chromoblastomycosis, eumycetoma, and paracoccidioidomycosis. The review highlights current knowledge gaps in global settings and describes available tools that could be adopted to fill these gaps.
  
  Sporotrichosis, chromoblastomycosis, and eumycetoma often present initially as skin lesions that can become progressively disfiguring, lead to stigmatization, and cause various sequalae affecting health and function. Chronic paracoccidioidomycosis can have systemic involvement and commonly results in impaired pulmonary function, which can limit activities of daily living and employment capacity. Use of standardized tools to quantify disability with fungal NTDs has been limited to date. Standardized tools to measure the impacts on quality of life and mental health are available and have been used for similar patient populations, including persons with other fungal diseases and persons with non-fungal skin NTDs.
  
  Fungal NTDs can be disabling. Improved understanding of the quality of life and mental health consequences might lead to greater awareness of the burden of fungal NTDs and enhance health planning to address the health and rehabilitation needs of persons affected by these diseases.
• Content Notes:
  Author manuscript
• Subjects:
  • Humans
  • Activities of Daily Living
  • Chromoblastomycosis
  • Health Planning
  • Mental Health
  • Mycetoma
  • Neglected Diseases
  • Paracoccidioidomycosis
  • Quality of Life
  • Sporotrichosis
  More +
• Keywords:
  • Sporotrichosis
  • Chromoblastomycosis
  • Mycetoma
  • Paracoccidioidomycosis
  • Mental health
  • Stigma
• Source:
  Current Fungal Infection Reports, 2025, v. 19, no. 1
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s12281-025-00503-0
• ISSN:
  1936-3761 ; 1936-377X
• Pubmed ID:
  40927623
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC12416368
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Pages in Document:
  4(17 pdf pages)
• Volume:
  19
• Issue:
  1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/261087/cdc_261087_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 572.23 KB]
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:02b435d45ed7eef8c5a7889b8a37b028dea32df1b463e4abad3e4fd019c4c0d47f649246ffaa9338454029fad8bf221eb9c99e3d8d86310429eaf830a472a6d0