Fungi can cause disease in humans, animals and plants. Every year, 1.5 million people die from fungal infections, and fungal attacks in food crops threaten food production. To protect ourselves, we ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have identified the mechanisms behind inflammasome activation driven by infection with the fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus. Fungal infection, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Azole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus has become an increasing problem worldwide over the last decade.

Compost and compost-enriched soils may contain high concentrations of A. fumigatus spores, a new study has found. In the study, which was lead author Jennifer Shelton's Ph.D. thesis, she and her ...

Aspergillus fumigatus strains that infect humans have a significantly altered metabolism compared to other strains in the environment. At the same time, infection with the fungus leads to an apparent ...

Aspergillus fumigatus is a ubiquitous mould that poses significant health risks, particularly in immunocompromised individuals, through invasive pulmonary aspergillosis. Over recent decades, the ...

Fungi can cause disease in both humans, animals, and plants. Every year, 1.5 million people die from fungal infections, and fungal attacks in food crops threaten food production. To protect ourselves, ...

Scientists have made a significant genetic discovery that sheds light on the use of the drug caspofungin to treat a deadly fungal infection, Aspergillus fumigatus, which kills some 100,000 severely ...

A new study has uncovered how the presence of two genes may be responsible for the adverse effects sometimes caused by caspofungin, a drug used to treat a deadly fungal infection. A. fumigatus is a ...

Background. The airway epithelium is the first barrier interacting with Aspergillus fumigatus conidia after their inhalation, suggesting that this structure functions as point of entry of this fungus ...