Now for something different: Prototheca, pathogenic algae (2021)

Primarily, the antimycotic amphotericin B (a polyene) is used for treating protothecosis caused by P. wickerhamii.<p>Interestingly and worryingly, there are very few antimycotics and there aren&#x27;t enough new ones in the pharma pipeline. C. auris is on the verge of being untreatable because of resistances to all 3 classes: triazoles, polyenes, and echinocandins.<p>PS: IANA[LD]

A genus of non-photosynthetic algae.<p>&gt;The mechanisms by which algae are able to infect hosts and cause disease are currently unknown.<p>If we ever found and wanted to colonize a near-Earthlike world with a native biosphere the undertaking would seem to be highly hazardous since we don&#x27;t even understand how some of our native pathogens work.