A deadly, drug-resistant fungus is extending its tendrils around the world. Research out this month finds that the public health threat of Candida auris has steadily climbed over time.

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

Our bodies host a variety of microorganisms, and the microbial communities in and on our bodies have to maintain the right balances among their members, or problems can arise. This includes the ...

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

Fungi are essential to life on land. They decompose organic matter, cycle nutrients and sustain plant ecosystems. Without ...

DURHAM, N.C. – Fungi and animals, including humans, have a lot in common when it comes to the arrangement of genes that determine their sex, according to new work by Howard Hughes Medical Institute ...

A UC Davis study finds that dogs could be indicators for Valley fever spread in humans. (Credit: Dr. William Zachary Mills DVM, MPH, MBA) Valley fever, or coccidioidomycosis, is caused by a fungus ...