Candida auris can “colonize” the skin and spread easily to surfaces.

Candida auris infections are rapidly rising across the U.S., raising concerns over drug resistance, hospital spread, and ...

The fungus has another unusual means of spread: Cats can sneeze out infectious yeast, researchers reported in Medical Mycology in 2022. “When the cat’s sneezing, it’s going on the surface, it’s going ...

At a conference earlier this month, Shawn Lockhart, PhD, director of the Fungal Reference Laboratory at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), presented the case of a Sporothrix ...

The fungus usually causes only mild infections in healthy people, but in patients with weakened immune systems, it can prove deadly, particularly when it enters the bloodstream and vital organs. The ...

(NEXSTAR) – The number of Candida auris infections reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this year has nearly tripled in the past three and a half months as health care providers ...

The ‘ginormous’ cat-killer fungus spreading across South America - Pathogenic fungi may even tolerate high body temperatures, scientists warn ...

Parks Canada crews are at work in Alberta's bat caves, spreading a blend of bacteria to try to save the flying night mammals ...

The fungal disease in snakes is called Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola and was first identified in 2009 and put in the genus, Chrysosporium. However, in 2013, after DNA sequencing revealed the fungus to be ...