Kansas health officials say dozens of people were stricken by a hard to treat and potentially deadly fungus in 2025. The ...

Researchers discovered a possible weakness in the deadly hospital superbug C. auris that could lead to new treatments for the ...

It's a high-priority human fungal pathogen, causing infection outbreaks of high mortality in health-care settings, according ...

Pathogens can create sticky situations. When microbes invade the body to cause an infection, often one of their first lines ...

Brian P. Lazzaro from Cornell University discusses the role of dynamic feedbacks in determining infection outcomes ...

Fungal infections kill millions of people each year, and modern medicine is struggling to keep up. But researchers at ...

When a maize plant is attacked by the fungus Ustilago maydis, tumor-like tissue growths occur at the site of infection. How the pathogen causes this response in its host has long been unknown. But a ...

Scientists have discovered that beneficial root-dwelling fungi boost plant resilience to disease by remodeling the plant cell membrane at pathogen infection sites—offering critical new insights into ...

Simple, uncomplicated SSSIs include erysipelas, cellulitis, furuncles, superficial abscesses and wound infections, whereas deeper complicated SSSIs (cSSSIs) include necrotizing fasciitis, myositis and ...

The research focused on Lasius neglectus, a species of garden ant. Unlike adult workers, which can leave the nest to die when they are gravely ill, young pupae are immobile and remain sealed in ...