Fungus

During 2020 to 2021, patients hospitalized with COVID-19-associated fungal infections had higher length of stay, ICU admission and in-hospital mortality, researchers report.

The headlines in the NY Times, Wall Street Journal and other publications say it all:  In my conversations across the nation, I have asked many leaders what they are doing to prevent the introduction...

The World Health Organization has created a first-ever priority list of fungi that it says pose the greatest emerging threats to public health.

Prevention is the best available strategy for keeping multidrug-resistant Candida auris infections from embedding in nursing homes, the infection control group says. “We may soon run out of options to...

For the first time, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention has identified U.S. nursing home residents and hospital patients with candida auris yeast infections that resist all first-line antifungal...

Associations create ‘heat map’ of U.S. eldercare facilities with COVID-19 cases …  Certain cancers raise COVID-19 mortality risk threefold … New drug formulation could treat Candida infections...

A fungal superbug only recently reported in the U.S. has gotten a foothold, according to data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Patients in frail health, especially those in...