Fungal Infections

  • Targeting a Waterborne Foe
    Discovered in 1976, cryptosporidium lurks worldwide in water, contaminating swimming pools, water parks, and drinking water supplies. This microscopic pathogen is a leading cause of diarrhea and malnutrition and the most common source of infection in immune-weakened people ...More
    April 26, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Cryptococcus Loves to Feast on Your Brain Sugar
    Highly dangerous Cryptococcus fungi love sugar and will consume it anywhere because it helps them reproduce. In particular, they thrive on a sugar called inositol which is abundant in the human brain and spinal cord.To borrow inositol from a person's brain, the fungi have ...More
    April 5, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Infectious Disease Specialists Surveyed on What Drives Prescribing in Severe Candida Infections in the Hospital Setting
    Arlington Medical Resources (AMR), a provider of market intelligence for the pharmaceutical and diagnostic imaging industries, finds that the most important drug attributes surveyed infectious disease specialists seek in a drug to treat severe Candida infections in the ...More
    March 4, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Researchers Optimize New Detergent for Instrument Disinfection
    A new fast-acting disinfectant that is effective against bacteria, viruses, fungi and prions could help to reduce the spread of deadly infections in hospitals, according to research published in the February issue of the Journal of General Virology.Researchers from the ...More
    January 20, 2010
    Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization
  • New Compounds May Control Deadly Fungal Infections
    An estimated 25,000 Americans develop severe fungal infections each year, leading to 10,000 deaths despite the use of anti-fungal drugs. The associated cost to the U.S. healthcare system has been estimated at $1 billion a year. Now two Syracuse University scientists have ...More
    December 22, 2009
    Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization
  • Researchers Take Aim at Hard-to-Treat Fungal Infections
    A team of researchers at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center at Gateway Park has developed a new model system to study fungal infections. The system can be a powerful tool for screening potential drug targets for conditions like ...More
    November 20, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Slowing Evolution to Stop Drug Resistance
    By  Krister SvahnInfectious organisms that become resistant to antibiotics are a serious threat to human society; they are also a natural part of evolution. In a new project, researchers at the University of Gothenburg are attempting to find substances that can slow ...More
    November 16, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Experts Applaud New Task Force on Global Antibiotic Resistance Threat
    Experts on both sides of the Atlantic applaud President Barack Obama and Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, representing the European Union (EU) presidency, for establishing a transatlantic task force to address antibiotic resistance, an urgent and growing problem ...More
    November 6, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Pumpkin Skin May Scare Away Germs
    The skin of that pumpkin you carve into a Jack-o'-Lantern on Halloween contains a substance that could put a scare into microbes that cause millions of cases of yeast infections in adults and infants each year. That's the conclusion of a new study, "Antifungal Mechanism of ...More
    October 28, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Do 3 Meals a Day Keep Fungi Away?
    The fact that they eat a lot – and often – may explain why most people and other mammals are protected from the majority of fungal pathogens, according to research from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. The research, published in the ...More
    October 16, 2009
    Posted in News
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