Previous research shows that patients with COVID-19 have a high chance of getting fungal infections. Medicines called antifungals are used to treat fungal infections. However, some fungi are resistant, which means the fungi are not killed by the antifungals and they keep growing, which can make the patients sicker and even die. This is a summary of a study that looked at whether different types of fungi and their resistance to antifungals changed from before COVID-19 to during the pandemicThis Plain Language Summary of Publication article from Future Microbiology discusses a study that looked at whether the COVID-19 pandemic had an impact on different types of fungi and their resistance to antifungal medicines.

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The original article on which this summary is based is called ‘Impact of COVID-19 on the antifungal susceptibility profiles of isolates collected in a global surveillance program that monitors invasive fungal infections’ and was published in Medical Mycology. 

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