SEATTLE, Wash. -- Last October when my 17-year-old cat, Abby, came down with a rattly chest, I took her to the vet thinking maybe a quick course of antibiotics would fix her right up. I had no idea ...
Highly dangerous Cryptococcus fungi love sugar and will consume it anywhere because it helps them reproduce. To borrow inositol from a person's brain, the fungi have an expanded set of genes that ...
Scientists have uncovered a way to make existing antifungal drugs work again against deadly, drug-resistant fungi. Fungal infections claim millions of lives worldwide each year, and current medical ...
Fungal infections kill millions of people each year, and modern medicine is struggling to keep up. But researchers at ...
Bacterial and viral are the more prevalent and commonly discussed forms of meningitis, but one infectious disease expert at the University of Alabama at Birmingham says fungal meningitis stemming from ...
ABOUT 500 cases of human infection due to Cryptococcus neoformans have been described since Busse and Buschke separately presented descriptions of clinical findings in the same patient. In addition ...
‘Division of labour’ in response to host oxidative burst drives a fatal Cryptococcus gattii outbreak
Fungal diseases are an emerging threat to human and animal health 1,2. The fungal pathogens Cryptococcus neoformans and C. gattii are both causative agents of cryptococcosis, a disease with an ...
(CBS) There is a fungus among us and it's deadly serious. Cryptococcus gattii has been blamed for 15 deaths over the last six years. The fungus is usually found in the tropics, but is now calling the ...
What is Cryptococcus, who does it affect and how many people does it kill each year? Cryptococcus is a fungus found in the environment throughout the world that is able to cause disease in humans.
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