In the eighteenth century, an Italian priest who moonlighted as a hobby botanist discovered a family of fungi that can thrive in almost any environment. Today, Aspergillus is known to live in soil, ...

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In the past month, I’ve talked to four different people who have either had a sinus surgery or an actual sinus fungal ball, so today I will write about it. An “aspergilloma” is the name of what it was ...

A type of fungus called Aspergillus latus that's been found in soil or plants has now been identified in a hospital environment and in people for the first time. Researchers sequenced the genomes of ...

For many years, many parts of the human body were considered to be sterile, which is to say, totally free of microorganisms unless there was an infection. But research has revealed that microbes exist ...

A fungal ball is a mass that develops in your sinuses after you’ve breathed in fungal spores. Medications cannot treat it, but a doctor can surgically remove it. Sinus fungal balls are a type of ...

Infectious diseases experts warn of the rising threat and apparent spread of disease-causing fungi outside their traditional hot spots. Fungal lung infections are commonly misdiagnosed, leading to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Aspergillus spores, including the ones that can cause infections in humans, may already be in the air that you breathe. But no ...

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 ...

Three types of fungi — Histoplasma, Coccidioides and Blastomyces — that cause serious lung infections were thought to be confined to certain regions of the United States. But now they are widespread ...