In the eighteenth century, an Italian priest who moonlighted as a hobby botanist discovered a family of fungi that can thrive in almost any environment. Today, Aspergillus is known to live in soil, ...

In the past month, I’ve talked to four different people who have either had a sinus surgery or an actual sinus fungal ball, so today I will write about it. An “aspergilloma” is the name of what it was ...

A fungal ball is a mass that develops in your sinuses after you’ve breathed in fungal spores. Medications cannot treat it, but a doctor can surgically remove it. Sinus fungal balls are a type of ...

There are many microbes in our environment; many are harmless, some perform important functions, and some may pose a threat. Aspergillus fumigatus, for example, is a fungus that can be often be found ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Aspergillus spores, including the ones that can cause infections in humans, may already be in the air that you breathe. But no ...

Infectious diseases experts warn of the rising threat and apparent spread of disease-causing fungi outside their traditional hot spots. Fungal lung infections are commonly misdiagnosed, leading to ...

The pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus escapes elimination from surface cells of the human lung by binding to a human protein. In doing so, it is able to nest in so called phagosomes, confined ...