2+ hour, 33+ min ago   (99+ words) Critically ill patients who develop candidemia—a bloodstream infection caused by Candida species—face one of the most feared complications of intensive care, with mortality rates hovering between 30 and 50 percent despite decades of progress in antifungal therapy. For years, treatment…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (810+ words) Superficial fungal infections of the skin, hair, and nails—collectively known as dermatomycoses—are among the most common infectious diseases on the planet, affecting an estimated 20 to 25 percent of the global human and animal population, with prevalence climbing even higher…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago   (61+ words) Long before science could sequence a genome, brewers in Japan were unknowingly running one of the world’s longest artificial evolution experiments. For centuries, the fungus Aspergillus oryzae, known in Japan as koji mold, has been cultivated to break down starches…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (635+ words) In a striking reminder that “flesh-eating” infections are not always bacterial, clinicians in Chongqing, China have documented a near-fatal case of fulminant mucormycosis — a devastating fungal infection — in a completely healthy 55-year-old man who developed the disease after a crushing…...

2+ week, 9+ hour ago   (1164+ words) A Fungus That Broke the Rules: Rare Cryptococcus Lung Infection Surfaces in a Man Whose Only Risk Factor Was Diabetes In an era when infectious-disease headlines are dominated by novel viruses and drug-resistant bacteria, an open-access case report published in…...

2+ week, 16+ hour ago   (716+ words) A 15-year review of hospitalized patients in northern China has revealed a sharp rise in pulmonary aspergillosis during the COVID-19 era, with the annual number of cases increasing far more rapidly after the pandemic began than in the preceding years....

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (19+ words) ABC7 Bay Area Stanford lab using fungi to upcycle food waste...