In the eighteenth century, an Italian priest who moonlighted as a hobby botanist discovered a family of fungi that can thrive in almost any environment. Today, Aspergillus is known to live in soil, ...

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A type of fungus called Aspergillus latus that's been found in soil or plants has now been identified in a hospital environment and in people for the first time. Researchers sequenced the genomes of ...

For many years, many parts of the human body were considered to be sterile, which is to say, totally free of microorganisms unless there was an infection. But research has revealed that microbes exist ...

A lingering cough is often blamed on asthma or past tuberculosis, but experts warn that a lesser-known fungal lung disease may be the real cause. This article explains aspergillosis, its common forms, ...

A Facebook post claims people are checking into ERs due to fungal lung infections caused by wearing masks meant to prevent COVID-19. Regional, statewide and national emergency physician groups say ...

The pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus escapes elimination from surface cells of the human lung by binding to a human protein. In doing so, it is able to nest in so called phagosomes, confined ...

Three types of fungi — Histoplasma, Coccidioides and Blastomyces — that cause serious lung infections were thought to be confined to certain regions of the United States. But now they are widespread ...