Mold And Fungi In Medical Research

Mold and Human Health: a Reality Check - PubMed

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Molds and fungi can also be particularly important in infections that occur in immunocompromised patients. Systemic candidiasis does not occur unless the individual is immunodeficient. Previous reports of "toxic mold syndrome" or "toxic black mold" have …

Introduction to Mycology - Medical …

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Fungi can occur as yeasts, molds, or as a combination of both forms. Some fungi are capable of causing …

About Healthcare-Associated Mold Outbreaks | Fungal Diseases

https://www.cdc.gov/fungal/outbreaks/healthcare-associated-mold-outbreaks.html

For public health and healthcare professionals: investigating outbreaks of mold infections. A higher number of patients with invasive mold infections than usual within a healthcare …

Aspergillosis - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/aspergillosis/symptoms-causes/syc-20369619

Mold - National Institute of Environmental …

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Introduction. Molds are microscopic organisms that play an important role in the breakdown of plant and animal matter. Outdoors, molds can be …

The medical effects of mold exposure - Journal of Allergy …

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Superficial mold infections (eg, tinea cruris, onychomycosis, and thrush) are common in healthy individuals and result primarily from local changes in the cutaneous or mucosal …

Medical mycology and fungal immunology: new research …

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Fungi cause more than a billion skin infections, more than 100 million mucosal infections, 10 million serious allergies and more than a million deaths each year. Global …

The fungal threat to human health is growing in a warmer, wetter ...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/07/health/fungus-health-threat-scn/index.html

“Fungi are just seeking sources of food, and in the eyes of many saprotropic fungi, we are just food,” he added. (Saprotrophic describes an organism that feeds on …

What an international team charting the threat of killer …

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1 day ago · We conducted a worldwide survey of fungal disease experts to understand which pathogens were most in need of research and which posed the greatest public health …

'The Last of Us': How Likely Is a Fungal Apocalypse?

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2 days ago · Fungus and mold species also don’t tend to spread the way viruses or bacteria do, with one infected person passing the bug on to others, Roberts continued. …