Fungal diseases : an emerging threat to human, animal, and plant health : workshop summary / LeighAnne Olsen, [and others], rapporteurs ; Forum on Microbial Threats, Board on Global Health, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2011], ©2011.

xxii, 465 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 23 cm

Appendixes: The emergence of Cryptococcus gattii in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest -- The good, the bad, and the ugly: fungi mold your world -- The fungi 1,2,3,...5.1 million species? -- Bat white-nose syndrome in North America -- Mammalian endothermy optimally restricts fungi and metabolic costs -- Vertebrate endothermy restricts most fungi as potential pathogens -- Surveillance for emerging diseases in wildlife -- Geography, climate, dust, and disease: epidemiology of valley fever (Coccidioidomycosis) and ways it might be controlled -- Cryptococcus gattii: an emerging pathogen in the United States -- Sexual reproduction, evolution, and adpatation of Cryptoccus gatti in the Pacific Northwest outbreak -- Yeast infections-human genetics on the rise -- The increased risk of global wheat rust pandemics: putting yellow rust into perspective -- Fungal pathogenesis in plants and animals: similarities and differences -- Climate, globalization, and trade: impacts on dispersal and invasion of fungal plant pathogens -- Emerging fungal diseases of wild animal species -- The emergence of Phytophthora ramorum in North America and Europe -- Climate change, extreme weather events, and fungal disease emergence and spread -- Host-pathogen dynamics of Amphibian Chytridiomycosis: the role of the skin microbiome in health and disease -- The effect of trade-mediated spread of Amphibian Chytrid on amphibian conservation -- White-nose syndrome fungus (Geomyces destructans) in bats, Europe -- Pan-European distribution of white-nose syndrome fungus (Geomyces destructans) not associated with mass mortality.

Includes bibliographical references.