Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Novel Functional Polymeric Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Negative Carbon Technologies, Suzhou Key Laboratory of Soft Material and New Energy, College ...

Cutaneous fungal infections that generally require systemic antifungal therapy include tinea capitis and onychomycosis. Tinea capitis, which is most often caused by Trichophyton tonsurans ...

Basidiobolomycosis: A fungal infection caused by the organism Basidiobolus ranarum, which can affect the skin, subcutaneous tissues, and gastrointestinal tract. Intussusception: A medical ...

Fungal infections, such as athlete’s foot and ringworm, occur when one type of fungal microbe becomes too prevalent in one area of the body so that the immune system cannot defeat it.

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 ...

Laura Young, MD, is a board-certified OB-GYN. She currently works as a laborist. Yeast infections are not sexually transmitted infections (STIs), but it's possible to transmit one to a partner ...

Cutaneous disease is a frequent cause ... primarily superficial fungal and bacterial infections. In a cohort of 142 homeless men staying overnight in a major Boston shelter over a period of ...

Histoplasmosis, coccidioidomycosis and blastomycosis are dimorphic fungal infections. Based on insurance claims, researchers determined that the infections have expanded beyond their typical areas ...

Historic Outbreaks of Coffee Wilt Disease Linked to Gene Transfer from Another Fungus Dec. 5, 2024 — The fungus that causes coffee wilt disease repeatedly took up segments of DNA from a related ...

Fungus in eye drops can cause eye infections, which may be vision-threatening, and potentially life-threatening in immunocompromised people. The FDA is urging consumers to stop using the eye drops ...

Podiatrists are encouraging people to be conscious of the risk of picking up toenail fungal infections this summer. Some podiatrists say they have seen an increase in toenail fungal infections ...

In the fixed cutaneous form of the disease there is no spread of infection from the site of fungus inoculation. These lesions can be verrucose in nature. In the other form there can be a general ...