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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aspergillus fumigatus is a mold that is found all over the world. Unlike closely related species, it can cause serious, often fatal infections in humans. What makes A. fumigatus so dangerous? An ...

Caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is primarily a pneumonic illness – and in a large proportion of patients with severe cases, ...