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, ...

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 ...

Aspergillus fumigatus spores are microscopic and everywhere. Most of us breathe them every day and our immune systems make quick work of them, so they pose little threat. However for individuals with ...

An international team of researchers has developed a way to modify the CAR T engineering process to create cells that can assist in fighting fungal infections in the lungs. In their paper published in ...

DOCTORS have sounded the alarm after a surge in killer super-fungal infections sweeping through hospitals. According to 50 of ...

A seven-year study of 470 patients revealed that a severe fungal lung infection once mainly seen in specific high-risk groups is increasingly affecting elderly patients and those with common cancers ...

A Chinese man developed a lung infection after habitually sniffing his own dirty socks. The unnamed patient was admitted to the Southwest Hospital of the Army Medical University with a cough that ...

A Chinese man's bizarre habit of sniffing his dirty socks landed him in hospital after it led to him developing a serious fungal infection in his lungs. The unnamed man, described as an 'ordinary ...

Together, these results suggest that fungal probiotics may help stabilize the gut–lung microbial axis, thereby reducing infection susceptibility in critically ill pancreatitis patients. “The findings ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ST. GEORGE, Utah (ABC4) — If you have been suffering from pneumonia-like symptoms lately (but you don’t have pneumonia), you may ...