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Ferry Hagen is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of Medicine as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their research encompasses several subfields, including Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Cell Biology, Plant Science, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Fungal Infections and Studies
  • Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies
  • Nail Diseases and Treatments
  • Infectious Diseases and Mycology
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions

Ferry Hagen has published a number of recent papers, contributing to leading journals in medical mycology and infectious diseases. Selected recent publications include:

  • "Fusarium: more than a node or a foot-shaped basal cell," 2021, Studies in Mycology
  • "Global guideline for the diagnosis and management of the endemic mycoses: an initiative of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology in cooperation with the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology," 2021, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • "Global guideline for the diagnosis and management of cryptococcosis: an initiative of the ECMM and ISHAM in cooperation with the ASM," 2024, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • "Global guideline for the diagnosis and management of candidiasis: an initiative of the ECMM in cooperation with ISHAM and ASM," 2025, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • "Fungal Nomenclature: Managing Change is the Name of the Game," 2023, Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Their frequent co-authors include Anderson Messias Rodrigues, Zoilo Pires dè Camargo, Rosane Christine Hahn, Teun Boekhout, and Elaine Cristina Francisco, reflecting collaborative work in fungal and infectious disease research.

Ferry Hagen has contributed publications to a variety of journals, with significant numbers in:

  • Mycopathologia
  • Medical Mycology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Fungi
  • Studies in Mycology

Best Publications

  • Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi

    Conrad L. Schoch;Keith A. Seifert;Sabine Huhndorf;Vincent Robert

  • Typical freshwater bacteria: an analysis of available 16S rRNA gene sequences from plankton of lakes and rivers

    G. Zwart;B.C. Crump;M.P. Kamst-van Agterveld;F. Hagen

  • A rare genotype of Cryptococcus gattii caused the cryptococcosis outbreak on Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada)

    Sarah Elizabeth Kidd;F Hagen;R L Tscharke;M Huynh

  • First hospital outbreak of the globally emerging Candida auris in a European hospital

    Silke Schelenz;Ferry Hagen;Johanna L. Rhodes;Alireza Abdolrasouli

  • Recognition of seven species in the Cryptococcus gattii/Cryptococcus neoformans species complex.

    Ferry Hagen;Kantarawee Khayhan;Bart Theelen;Anna Kolecka

  • Consensus multi-locus sequence typing scheme for Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii.

    Wieland Meyer;David M. Aanensen;Teun Boekhout;Massimo Cogliati

  • New clonal strain of Candida auris, Delhi, India

    Anuradha Chowdhary;Cheshta Sharma;Shalini Duggal;Kshitij Agarwal

  • First report of Candida auris in America: Clinical and microbiological aspects of 18 episodes of candidemia

    Belinda Calvo;Analy Salles de Azevedo Melo;Armindo Perozo-Mena;Martin Hernandez

  • Multidrug-resistant endemic clonal strain of Candida auris in India

    A.a Chowdhary;V.b Anil Kumar;C.a Sharma;A.a Prakash

  • An outbreak due to Candida auris with prolonged colonisation and candidaemia in a tertiary care European hospital

    Alba Ruiz-Gaitán;Ana M Moret;María Tasias-Pitarch;Ana I Aleixandre-López

  • Fusarium: more than a node or a foot-shaped basal cell.

    P.W. Crous;P.W. Crous;L. Lombard;M. Sandoval-Denis;K.A. Seifert

  • High terbinafine resistance in Trichophyton interdigitale isolates in Delhi, India harbouring mutations in the squalene epoxidase gene.

    Ashutosh Singh;Aradhana Masih;Ananta Khurana;Pradeep Kumar Singh

  • Global guideline for the diagnosis and management of the endemic mycoses: an initiative of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology in cooperation with the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology.

    George R Thompson;Thuy Le;Thuy Le;Ariya Chindamporn;Carol A Kauffman

  • Six monophyletic lineages identified within Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii by multi-locus sequence typing.

    M. Bovers;F. Hagen;E.E. Kuramae;T. Boekhout

  • Cryptococcus neoformans-Cryptococcus gattii Species Complex: an International Study of Wild-Type Susceptibility Endpoint Distributions and Epidemiological Cutoff Values for Fluconazole, Itraconazole, Posaconazole, and Voriconazole

    A. Espinel-Ingroff;A.I. Aller;E. Canton;L.R. Castanon-Olivares

  • Phylogeography and evolutionary patterns in Sporothrix spanning more than 14 000 human and animal case reports

    Y Zhang;F Hagen;B Stielow;A M Rodrigues

  • Diversity of the Cryptococcus neoformans-Cryptococcus gattii species complex

    Marjan Bovers;Ferry Hagen;Teun Boekhout

  • The fatal fungal outbreak on Vancouver Island is characterized by enhanced intracellular parasitism driven by mitochondrial regulation

    Hansong Ma;Ferry Hagen;Dov J. Stekel;Simon A. Johnston

  • Ancient dispersal of the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus gattii from the Amazon rainforest

    Ferry Hagen;Paulo C. Ceresini;Itzhack Polacheck;Hansong Ma

  • Clonal Expansion and Emergence of Environmental Multiple-Triazole-Resistant Aspergillus fumigatus Strains Carrying the TR34/L98H Mutations in the cyp51A Gene in India

    Anuradha Chowdhary;Shallu Kathuria;Jianping Xu;Cheshta Sharma

  • Evidence of genotypic diversity among Candida auris isolates by multilocus sequence typing, matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry and amplified fragment length polymorphism

    A. Prakash;C. Sharma;A. Singh;P. Kumar Singh

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacques F. Meis
Jacques F. Meis Canisius-Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis
Teun Boekhout
Teun Boekhout University of Amsterdam
Anuradha Chowdhary
Anuradha Chowdhary University of Delhi
Hamid Badali
Hamid Badali The University of Texas at San Antonio
Paul E. Verweij
Paul E. Verweij Radboud University
Matthew C. Fisher
Matthew C. Fisher Imperial College London
Wieland Meyer
Wieland Meyer Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute
Arnaldo Lopes Colombo
Arnaldo Lopes Colombo Federal University of Sao Paulo
Macit Ilkit
Macit Ilkit Cukurova University
Bart Theelen
Bart Theelen Utrecht University

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