The study found that patients with mucormycosis had markedly lower levels of albumin compared with patients suffering from other fungal infections. Low albumin levels—known as hypoalbuminemia—were the ...

For 450 million years, plants and soil fungi have been trading partners. The fungi weave through plant roots, delivering ...

OUTBREAK: A fungal infection outbreak in Middle Tennessee that has sickened more than 30 people and killed one is raising ...

Beneath the surface of forests, grasslands and farms across the world, vast fungal webs form underground trading systems to ...

American evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers has been awarded the 2026 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement-a prestigious ...

A vaccine created by University of Georgia researchers to battle multiple life-threatening fungal infections is also ...

The fungus can cause everything from skin infections to life-threatening bloodstream infections.

Cases of deadly and drug-resistant fungal infection Candida auris have been spiking across the United States, with 28 states and Washington, D.C. having recorded cases in 2022, and 17 states ...

The bottom view of a plate culture containing the fungus Trichophyton mentagrophytes. From the reverse, the color is pale, yellowish-brown or reddish-brown. The genus, Trichophyton, inhabits the soil, ...

The first reported case of a sexually transmitted fungal infection in the United States was Trichophyton mentagrophytes genotype VII (TMVII) in 2024. Other fungal infections can transmit through ...