A 29-year-old Michigan chef died last week after battling a rare fungal disease that ravaged his lungs. Sometime before Thanksgiving, Ian Pritchard contracted blastomycosis, a fungus-borne illness ...

They found that the incidence of CAPA ranged from 0.4% to 2.7%, and CAPA was associated with increased mortality in these patients. They further identified several risk factors associated with CAPA, ...

Seattle health officials and Harborview Medical Center staff are investigating the possibility of a fungal infection outbreak ...

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"They showed us a picture of his lungs, and they literally looked like Swiss cheese,” said Ron Pritchard after his son Ian was diagnosed with blastomycosis A Michigan chef has died after contracting a ...

A recent study published in PLOS Pathogens discussed coinfections in the lungs and how viral infections create a favorable environment for bacteria and fungi. Study: Coinfections in the lung: How ...

Blastomycosis — also known as blasto, North American blastomycosis, or Gilchrist disease — is a rare infection caused by breathing in a fungus called blastomyces. It usually affects the lungs but can ...

A research team from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston has found a new method of detecting a potentially fatal fungal lung infection in patients being treated for leukemia or who ...

A rare fungal infection thought to mainly occur in the northern Midwest and parts of the Southeast is more common in other parts of the U.S. than expected, new research published Wednesday finds. The ...

The European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases and the European Respiratory Society have published the world’s first guidelines for physicians and laboratories on chronic lung ...

There are many microbes in our environment; many are harmless, some perform important functions, and some may pose a threat. Aspergillus fumigatus, for example, is a fungus that can be often be found ...

A 29-year-old Michigan chef died last week after battling blastomycosis, a rare fungal disease that "ravaged" his lungs. A 29-year-old Michigan chef died last week after battling a rare fungal disease ...