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Thrush is one of the most common infections in the world. It's caused by the fungi Candida—specifically, the yeast Candida albicans. Although yeast infections are normally treated easily with antifungal drugs, a growing ...
Dec 1, 2025
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California is heading toward another record year for cases of Valley fever, the disease caused by fungal spores linked to cycles of drought and precipitation.
Apr 28, 2025
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How can we best treat infectious diseases in people with obesity? Hospital pharmacist and Ph.D. researcher Koen van Rhee studied how obesity affects blood levels of two commonly used medicines. He also developed a method ...
Feb 17, 2025
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A change in policy may be helping to drive a rise in treatment-resistant vaginal thrush, amid significant yearly increases in the prevalence of fungal infections caused by fungal Candida species, suggests the first study ...
Oct 8, 2024
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The incidence and range of valley fever has grown dramatically over the last two decades, and some experts warn that the fungus is growing increasingly resistant to drugs—a phenomenon they say is due to the spraying of ...
Oct 7, 2024
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For the roughly 150,000 AIDS patients who come down with a life-threatening infection called fungal meningitis each year, there aren't many options.
May 9, 2024
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Premature babies almost always require treatment with medication. Doctors usually determine the dosages based on data from children who were not born prematurely, while preterm infants often develop differently. Medication ...
Dec 19, 2023
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Matching an infection with Candida auris, a pathogenic yeast, to an effective antifungal is a critical clinical decision. That decision relies on susceptibility testing, but commercially available antifungal tests perform ...
Jun 18, 2023
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If you're among the millions of women who experience a vaginal yeast infection each year, you know that fast relief is a top priority.
Jun 12, 2023
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Among the yeasts from the Candida genus that cause infections in humans, the species Candida auris is still relatively new: this species was only described in 2009, and to date no evidence has been found before the 1990s. ...
May 12, 2023
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