A 76-year-old man on cancer immunotherapy developed a mixed Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Aspergillus fumigatus empyema with pneumothorax, exposing key diagnostic and therapeutic gaps.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Azole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus has become an increasing problem worldwide over the last decade.

Compost and compost-enriched soils may contain high concentrations of A. fumigatus spores, a new study has found. In the study, which was lead author Jennifer Shelton's Ph.D. thesis, she and her ...

Scientists have made a significant genetic discovery that sheds light on the use of the drug caspofungin to treat a deadly fungal infection, Aspergillus fumigatus, which kills some 100,000 severely ...

A new study has uncovered how the presence of two genes may be responsible for the adverse effects sometimes caused by caspofungin, a drug used to treat a deadly fungal infection. A. fumigatus is a ...

Background. The airway epithelium is the first barrier interacting with Aspergillus fumigatus conidia after their inhalation, suggesting that this structure functions as point of entry of this fungus ...

Aspergillus fumigatus is a mold that is found all over the world. Unlike closely related species, it can cause serious, often fatal infections in humans. What makes A. fumigatus so dangerous? An ...

Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. Aspergillus fumigatus infection in the lungs is accompanied by the recruitment of innate immune cells, phagocytosis, and the release of ...

R.J. COLE, J.W. KIRKSEY, J.W. DORNER, D.M. WILSON, J. JOHNSON Jr., D. BEDELL, J.P. SPRINGER, K.K. CHEXAL, J. CLARDY, R.H. COX Annales de la nutrition et de l ...

A research team led by a University of Massachusetts Amherst scientist has made a significant genetic discovery that sheds light on the use of the drug caspofungin to treat a deadly fungal infection, ...