They found that the incidence of CAPA ranged from 0.4% to 2.7%, and CAPA was associated with increased mortality in these patients. They further identified several risk factors associated with CAPA, ...

A research team from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston has found a new method of detecting a potentially fatal fungal lung infection in patients being treated for leukemia or who ...

The European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases and the European Respiratory Society have published the world’s first guidelines for physicians and laboratories on chronic lung ...

ST. GEORGE, Utah (ABC4) — If you have been suffering from pneumonia-like symptoms lately (but you don’t have pneumonia), you may have ingested fungal spores that went airborne after dirt around you ...

Aspergillosis lung infection caused by Aspergillus, vector outline diagram.Irritated airway, excess mucus and damaged cilia caused by common mold fungus spores.Microbiological danger for human health.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among patients with IFI, yeast on donor culture and prolonged length of stay were associated with early IC risk.

Certain serious fungal infections occur in regions of the United States with specific environments and are often tied to soil ...

A 29-year-old Michigan chef died last week after battling a rare fungal disease that ravaged his lungs. Sometime before Thanksgiving, Ian Pritchard contracted blastomycosis, a fungus-borne illness ...

A Chinese man's bizarre habit of sniffing his dirty socks landed him in hospital after it led to him developing a serious fungal infection in his lungs. The unnamed man, described as an 'ordinary ...

A chip-based infection model developed by researchers in Jena, Germany, enables live microscopic observation of damage to lung tissue caused by the invasive fungal infection aspergillosis. The team ...

A rare fungal infection thought to mainly occur in the northern Midwest and parts of the Southeast is more common in other parts of the U.S. than expected, new research published Wednesday finds. The ...

ST. GEORGE, Utah (KTVX) — People who are suffering from pneumonia-like symptoms lately (but don’t have pneumonia) may have ingested fungal spores that went airborne after dirt around you was disturbed ...