Fungal infection, also known as a mycosis, refers to the invasion of a host's tissue by specific types of fungi. Mycoses often start in the lungs following inhalation of fungal spores or on the ...

Tinea cruris, commonly known as jock itch, is another common fungal skin infection. These fungi love warm and damp environments and thrive in moist areas of the body, such as the groin ...

While many traditional Chinese/herbal medicine consumers are drawn to the fungus for its supposed health benefits, my interest lies in a darker side of its harvest: the deadly relationship between ...

A fungus causing powdery mildew in blueberries has spread from the U.S. to continents like Europe and Asia, threatening crops and increasing fungicide dependence. NC State researchers found that ...

Medical researchers have detected what they have described as the first evidence of chronic lung infections by a fungus called aspergillus in Assam’s tea garden population and called for testing to ...

Buldhana: Skin biopsy reports have ruled out any fungal infection in samples of people affected by unexplained hair loss in Buldhana's Shegaon tehsil. So far, 139 residents across 11 villages have ...

Their study, published in Nucleic Acids Research, focused on the mold fungus Aspergillus fumigatus, which can cause life-threatening infections, especially in immunocompromised people. Identifying ...

MUMBAI: Preliminary investigations of hair, scalp and nail samples have ruled out a fungal infection as the cause of the mysterious “bald virus” affecting several villages in Shegaon taluka of ...

Sections of dermatologists have objected to an India-specific name that has stuck to a fungus that causes widespread and hard-to-treat skin infections and is resistant to most anti-fungal medicines, ...

The viral infection surges are putting such on a strain on health systems that Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge had to stop accepting ambulances earlier this week. Patient numbers ...

The soil fungus Mortierella alpina has the potential ... from the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology—Hans Knöll Institute (Leibniz-HKI). Mortierella alpina ...