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In a recent review of fluconazole-resistant strains of Candida glabrata isolated from S. Korean patients, researchers identified an almost uniform mutation.  By sequencing the pleiotropic [...]

There are over 38 million people living with HIV with over 1.7 million new infections in the past year. The world has made significant progress since the late 1990s, but HIV remains a major [...]

In August, CDC awarded more than $77 million to health departments and research partners nationwide to help fight existing and emerging antibiotic-resistant threats. Many of the new projects [...]

Jeanine Thomas, founder of World MRSA Day and MRSA Survivors Network said, “Everyone is at risk for a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection just as the public is at [...]

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations is of the opinion that TR4 (tropical race 4 of the Fusarium oxysporum mold) is one of the “the most destructive of all plant [...]

In an online survey, we found that nearly one-fifth of physicians in the United States who responded had seen or heard about a case of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis after severe influenza at [...]

The author of the OpEd,  “COVID-19 Patients Need to Be Tested for Bacteria and Fungi, not just the Coronavirus” stresses that many COVID-19 patients develop secondary infections.  These [...]

Dr. Gerberding, past Director of the CDC, warns that while the current SARS-CoV-2 crisis demands attention to the development of vaccines and antiviral therapeutics, she raises the caution that [...]

The increases in skin and soft tissue infections (SSTI) because of multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogens is a global concern. Although MDR Gram-negative bacteria (GNB) are often overlooked as a [...]

In 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) allowed citrus farmers to spray streptomycin and oxytetracycline antibiotics on infected groves to protect uninfected trees and try and stop [...]