Infection with the fungus Candida parapsilosis is a major problem for individuals in intensive care units, as well as for premature infants and immunocompromised adults. Innovative research using a ...

Scientists have defined six new genome sequences in the Candida fungus family and identified genetic differences in species that cause disease. An international research collaboration coordinated by ...

Background: Candida species are the third most common cause of pediatric health care–associated bloodstream infection in the United States and Europe. To our knowledge, this report from the ...

After gathering blood and urine cultures, we started the patient on liposomal amphotericin B. Computed tomography showed three nodular opacities affecting the patient’s right lung and a small ...

A team of researchers led by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and collaborators at Emory University are shedding new light on deadly fungal infections that develop in bone marrow ...

The yeast Candida parapsilosis is emerging as a growing threat for hospitalized patients in a new study. A team led by Dr Amelia Barber from the Cluster of Excellence "Balance of the Microverse" at ...

Emory researcher David Weiss has spent years studying a baffling phenomenon called heteroresistance, in which a tiny fraction of bacteria remain resistant to antibiotics, while the remainder succumb.