New research reveals that COVID-19-associated pulmonary aspergillosis (CAPA) affects 0.4%–2.7% of severe COVID-19 patients in Japan. Study: Incidence and risk factors for coronavirus disease ...

Aspergillus fumigatus There appears to be a low risk of invasive fungal secondary infection, especially aspergillosis, in patients with SARS-CoV-2-related pneumonia and no underlying immunosuppression ...

Aspergillus fumigatus spores are microscopic and everywhere. Most of us breathe them every day and our immune systems make quick work of them, so they pose little threat. However for individuals with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a retrospective analysis, Mazi and colleagues evaluated more than 45 million Medicare recipients across all U ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among patients with IFI, yeast on donor culture and prolonged length of stay were associated with early IC risk.

A research team from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston has found a new method of detecting a potentially fatal fungal lung infection in patients being treated for leukemia or who ...

Pathogens don't always work against drug treatments. Sometimes, they can strengthen them, according to new research. Researchers have now looked at two pathogens that often occur at similar sites, ...

Infectious diseases experts warn of the rising threat and apparent spread of disease-causing fungi outside their traditional hot spots. Fungal lung infections are commonly misdiagnosed, leading to ...

Aspergillus conidia (spores) are ubiquitous in the environment and thus unavoidable. In soil and on other vegetative or moist material, aspergillus species exist as saprobes, digesting dead or dying ...

A year-old claim about infections due to mask-wearing is recirculating on social media. And it's still nonsense. A Facebook user shared an image on Sept. 16 with the text, "You can't make this up: NYS ...

Three types of fungi — Histoplasma, Coccidioides and Blastomyces — that cause serious lung infections were thought to be confined to certain regions of the United States. But now they are widespread ...