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Fungal Infections Cost U.S. $6.7 Billion in a Year: Study

In 2018, fungal infections accounted for $6.7 billion in health care spending, revealed research from the University of Georgia. Combined with secondary infections and diagnoses, the total cost of hospital stays associated with fungal ...

Gut Fungi Influence Social Behavior Through Brain Signals

A specific group of fungi residing in the intestines can protect against intestinal injury and influence social behavior, according to a study published in the journal Cell . “We have made a direct link between a major immune pathway induced by ...

Recent Outbreak of Untreatable Fungal Infection Reported in the U.S.

Outbreaks of an "untreatable" fungus have been reported recently in a Washington DC nursing home and at two hospitals in Dallas. The mode of spread is from person to patient. It commonly affects patients admitted to hospitals and ...

Fungal Infections Add Burden To Treatment Options

Systemic fungal infections are potentially lethal although they are a lot more uncommon than other illnesses. With limited treatment options, indeed the increasing resistance formed by the fungi to the accessible medications add to the difficulty. ...

Fungi Help Protect Against Infection

Common gut fungi teach the immune system how to respond to fungal infections, stated a new research from scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine. The study, published Feb. 5 in Cell, reveals a new twist in the complex relationship between ...

Fewer Fungi Types in Lungs Tied to Worse Disease in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Fewer types of fungi in the lungs are associated with increased severity of disease in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) patients, finds a new study. The findings of the study are presented at the European Respiratory Society International ...

Development of New Formulation to Treat Fungal Infections

New oral formulation of Amphotericin B is identified to treat systemic fungal and parasitic infections by the researchers at the Wasan Laboratory in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of British Columbia in partnership with iCo ...

Probiotic Yeast May Help Treat Drug-resistant Fungal Infections

Probiotic yeasts present in the food can reduce the virulence and prevent infections caused by various fungi which cause life-threatening infections in hospitalized and immune-compromised individuals, including the multi-drug resistant Candida ...

New Mechanism in the Liver That Helps Prevent Invasive Fungal Infections Discovered

A novel pathway by which liver macrophages called Kupffer cells (KCs) capture potentially fatal fungi in the bloodstream before dissemination to target organs like the brain or kidney has been identified by scientists. The findings of the study are ...

Ant Microbiota Compound Kills Drug-resistant Fungi

Cyphomycin derived from ants, when tested in vitro and in vivo, was shown to be capable of killing fungi that cause diseases in humans and are resistant to currently available drugs, found a research group led by Monica Tallarico Pupo, Professor of ...

Fungal Infections in Humans can be Cured Using Bacteria in Frog's Skin

Fungal infections can now be treated with the help of bacteria present in frog's skin. The bacteria may help develop alternative drugs to treat diseases caused by fungi that are becoming more drug-resistant in humans, reveals a new study. The ...

Fungi and Yeast are Present in Breast Milk Microbiome

Many earlier studies have reported the presence of bacteria in the breast milk microbiome. New research published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology , has shown that human breast milk microbiome contains fungi. A combination of certain fungi ...

Antarctic Fungi Identified By IIT-H Researchers To Treat Childhood Cancer

A strain of fungi found in the Antartic region has been isolated by the researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad (IIT-H). The fungus could lead to the development of novel and cheaper treatment for common childhood cancer with ...

Bacteria from Soil May Help Cure Fungal Infections

Fungal infections can be cured using bacteria present in the soil, reports a new study. The researchers tried using Bacillus subtilis bacteria, which naturally secrete substances that inhibit candida growth, according to the study published by ...

Starving Fungi Could Save Millions of Lives Each Year, Reveals Research

Stopping fungi from producing transporters that carry essential nutrients, like phosphate, starved the fungi, revealed team from the Westmead Institute for Medical Research. Despite high levels of phosphate in the human body, the research ...

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