Posts Tagged ‘medical mycology’
Now I am not one to pay too much attention to the lives and deaths of celebrities (who the heck was Brittany Murphy anyway?) but when the name of one is mentioned in the same sentence as mold, I’ll bite.
There are many articles floating around today discussing the possibility that mold played a part in [...]
Tags: Brittany Murphy, celebrities, Hollywood, medical mycology, toxic mold
You know it is a good day at the library when you walk by the magazine rack and see a false-color electron micrograph image of a conidiophore on a cover. It was the cover of the May 22, edition of ScienceNews, which happened to contain a feature article entitled I, Mold by Laura Bell. It [...]
Tags: Aspergillus, Candida, Cryptococcus, fungal disease, medical mycology, mold, ScienceNews
It’s not every day you get clued in on a story of possible mycological interest by visiting the Drudge Report (FYI, to balance things out, I also check The Huffington Post). But, there it was–Potentially deadly fungus spreading in US, Canada.
A potentially deadly strain of fungus is spreading among animals and people in the [...]
Tags: cryptococcosis, Cryptococcus gattii, fungal disease, medical mycology
Blastomycosis results from infection with the fungus Blastomyces dermatitidis. It is a threat to the immunodeficient, but also is more prevalent in some areas than others. Researchers find rare fungus in Milwaulkee area briefly discusses the incidence of the disease in urban Wisconsin.
Researchers found a rare — and dangerous — fungus in the rural Milwaukee [...]
Tags: Blastomyces, blastomycosis, medical mycology
