Guidelines & clinical tools

MRCM members regularly co-author national and international clinical guidelines that are used as the basis of our clinical advisory service.

Invasive fungal infections

  • Munoz P, Ruiz Camps I, Richardson M. Assessment of and future perspectives on standards of CARE in invasive fungal disease. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 2019. In press
  • Sanguinetti M, Posteraro B, Beigelman-Aubry C, Lamoth F, Dunet V, Slavin M, Richardson M. Diagnosis and treatment of invasive fungal infections- looking ahead. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 2019. In press
  • Rautemaa-Richardson R as co-author.  Guidelines for the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of invasive fungal diseases in paediatric patients undergoing allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation. UK working Group, 2017.
  • iBook: Illustrative Cases in Medical Mycology. C Holmes, R Rautemaa-Richardson, L Novak-Frazer, C Moore, M Richardson. iTunes 2016.
  • Fungal Infection: Diagnosis and Management, 4th Edition (MD Richardson and DW Warnock, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).
  • Richardson MD, Jones B, Rautemaa R. Therapeutic Guidelines in Systemic Fungal Infection, 4th Edition. Remedica, 2007.

Aspergillosis & mucormycosis (zygomycosis)

  • Ullmann AJ, Aguado JM, Arikan-Akdagli S, Denning DW, Groll AH, Lagrou K, Lass-Flörl C, Lewis RE, Munoz P, Verweij PE, Warris A, Ader F, Akova M, Arendrup MC, Barnes RA, Beigelman-Aubry C, Blot S, Bouza E, Brüggemann RJM, Buchheidt D, Cadranel J, Castagnola E, Chakrabarti A, Cuenca-Estrella M, Dimopoulos G, Fortun J, Gangneux JP, Garbino J, Heinz WJ, Herbrecht R, Heussel CP, Kibbler CC, Klimko N, Kullberg BJ, Lange C, Lehrnbecher T, Löffler J, Lortholary O, Maertens J, Marchetti O, Meis JF, Pagano L, Ribaud P, Richardson M, Roilides E, Ruhnke M, Sanguinetti M, Sheppard DC, Sinkó J, Skiada A, Vehreschild MJGT, Viscoli C, Cornely OA. Diagnosis and management of Aspergillus diseases: executive summary of the 2017 ESCMID-ECMM-ERS guideline. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2018, 24 Suppl 1:e1-e38. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2018.01.002.
  • Richardson M, Denning DW. Aspergillosis. In: Control of Communicable Diseases: Laboratory Practice. Wilke B. Heymann D. (eds.). American Public Health Association, 2019, p. 40-47.Koehler P, Mellinghoff S, Lagrou K, Alanio A, Arenz D, Hoenigl M, Koehler FC, Lass-Flörl C, Meis JF, Richardson M, Cornely OA. Development and validation of the European QUALity (EQUAL) Score for Mucormycosis Management in Haematology. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 2019, doi: 10.1093/jac/dkz051.
  • Cornely OA, Alastruey-Izquierdo A,  Arenz D, Chen SC, Dannaoui E, Richardson M et al.  Global guideline for the diagnosis and management of mucormycosis: An initiative of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology in cooperation with the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium. Lancet Infectious Diseases. 2019. In press
  • Richardson M, Cuenca-Estrella M, Maertens J. An introduction to current standards of CARE in invasive fungal disease. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 2019. In press

Candida

Therapeutic drug monitoring

  • Ashbee HR, Barnes RA, Johnson EM, Richardson MD, Gorton R, Hope WW. Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) of antifungal agents: guidelines from the British Society for Medical Mycology. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2014; 69:1162-76.

Susceptibility testing

Rare yeasts & moulds

  • Chowdhary A, Meis JF, Guarro J, de Hoog GS, Kathuria S, Arendrup MC, Arikan-Akdagli S, Akova M, Boekhout T, Caira M, Guinea J, Chakrabarti A, Dannaoui E, van Diepeningen A, Freiberger T, Groll AH, Hope WW, Johnson E, Lackner M, Lagrou K, Lanternier F, Lass-Flörl C, Lortholary O, Meletiadis J, Muñoz P, Pagano L, Petrikkos G, Richardson MD, Roilides E, Skiada A, Tortorano AM, Ullmann AJ, Verweij PE, Cornely OA, Cuenca-Estrella M; European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Fungal Infection Study Group; European Confederation of Medical Mycology. ESCMID and ECMM joint clinical guidelines for the diagnosis and management of systemic phaeohyphomycosis: diseases caused by black fungi. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2014;20 Suppl 3:47-75.
  • Arendrup MC, Boekhout T, Akova M, Meis JF, Cornely OA, Lortholary O and among authors: Richardson MD; European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Fungal Infection Study Group; European Confederation of Medical Mycology. ESCMID and ECMM joint clinical guidelines for the diagnosis and management of rare invasive yeast infections. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2014;20 Suppl 3:76-98. doi: 10.1111/1469-0691.12360.
  • Global guideline for the diagnosis and management of rare 2 mold infections: An initiative of the ECMM. Hoenigl M, Salmanton-Garcia J, Walsh TG , Fen-Neoh C, Jenks JD, Lackner M, and among authors: Richardson MD. Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2020 (submitted).
  • Rautemaa-Richardson R as co-author. European Confederation of Medical Mycology. Rare yeast infections: diagnosis and management, 2020. In preparation

Onychomycosis

  • Ameen M, Lear JT, Madan V, Mohd MMF, Richardson M.  British Association of Dermatologists’ guidelines for the management of onychomycosis 2014. Brit J Dermatol. 2014, 171, 937-958.