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 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 Vanessa Etienne is a Staff Writer for PEOPLE ...

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 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 ...

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

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among patients with IFI, yeast on donor culture and prolonged length of stay were associated with early IC risk.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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