Associates
Chair
Prof. Oliver A. Cornely
MD, FACP, FIDSA, FAAM, FECMM, Cologne
Project Manager
Dr. Danila Seidel
PhD, Cologne
Coordinating Physicians and Quality Control Team Cologne
Dr. Maria JGT Vehreschild MD
Dr. Philipp Köhler MD
Frank Müller, Documentalist
Epidemiology, IT & Statistics
Dr. J. Janne Vehreschild
MD, FECMM, Cologne
Microbiology and Sample Storage
Dr. Hilmar Wisplinghoff
MD, Cologne
Prof. Cornelia Lass-Flörl
MD, FECMM, Innsbruck
Molecular Identification
Dr. Volker Rickerts
MD, Berlin
Histopathology
Dr. Birgid Markiefka
MD, Cologne
Thoracic Surgery
Prof. Khosro Hekmat
MD, Cologne
Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
Dr. Fedja Farowski
DMSc, Cologne
Case Definition and Data Entry
You are cordially invited to contribute cases of invasive infections caused by emerging fungi to our registry. The following criteria need to be met for inclusion of a case.
- Inclusion criteria:
- Cultural, histopathological or DNA evidence of invasive infection with an emerging fungus*
- Exclusion criteria:
- Infection due to Aspergillus spp., Candida spp., Cryptococcus neoformans, Pneumocystis jirovecii
- Endemic fungal infection such as coccidioidomycosis or histoplasmosis
- Colonisation or other non-invasive infection
* Examples of emerging fungi:
Acremonium spp., Alternaria spp., Aureobasidium spp., Bipolaris spp., Cladiophialophora spp., Cladosporium spp., Cryptococcus spp. other than neoformans, Curvularia spp., Exophiala spp., Fusarium spp., Geotrichum spp., Paecilomyces spp., Penicillium spp., Phialophora spp., Scedosporium spp., Trichoderma spp. and Trichosporon spp.
If you would like to collaborate by entering a case,
- Please email us your affiliation and we will setup an acocunt for you to access the FungiScope online questionnaire.
- Go to FungiScope data entry to access the web based case report form.
