Editor's Note: This article was provided by The Conversation. The original is here. A deadly fungal infection has been spreading across western North America. The number of human and animal cases has ...

Fungal diseases are an emerging threat to human and animal health 1,2. The fungal pathogens Cryptococcus neoformans and C. gattii are both causative agents of cryptococcosis, a disease with an ...

(CBS) There is a fungus among us and it's deadly serious. Cryptococcus gattii has been blamed for 15 deaths over the last six years. The fungus is usually found in the tropics, but is now calling the ...

Bacterial and viral are the more prevalent and commonly discussed forms of meningitis, but one infectious disease expert at the University of Alabama at Birmingham says fungal meningitis stemming from ...

VICTORIA, B.C. — The mystery emerged slowly, its clues maddeningly diverse. Sally Lester, an animal pathologist at a British Columbia laboratory, slipped a slide under her microscope — a tissue from a ...

All viewpoints expressed in the article are those of Kausik, and do not necessarily represent official positions of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and the Johns Hopkins University. A deadly ...

Cryptococcus gattii may be more common than previously thought and has caused a significant number of infections in the HIV/AIDS population. For the study, C. gattii infections reported among patients ...

DURHAM, NC -- Most AIDS patients, when diagnosed with a fungal infection known simply as cryptococcosis, are assumed to have an infection with Cryptococcus neoformans, but a recent study from Duke ...

A new strain of hypervirulent, deadly Cryptococcus gattii fungus has been discovered in the United States, a new study says. The outbreak has already killed six people in Oregon, and it will likely ...