Patients in American hospitals and long-term care facilities face a growing threat from Candida auris, a drug-resistant ...

Candida auris infections are rapidly rising across the U.S., raising concerns over drug resistance, hospital spread, and risks to vulnerable patients.

Unlike bacteria, fungi are remarkably difficult to attack without also harming human cells. That biological reality has left medicine with surprisingly few antifungal drugs—and made the emergence of ...

Life-threatening fungal infection that can live on surfaces for weeks is rising in the US - The infection typically affects ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two states north of Tennessee are experiencing an outbreak of a deadly fungal infection. And it's not the first time that it has ...

Researchers from the Singapore General Hospital (SGH), A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) have ...

Scientists have discovered a genetic process which could unlock new ways to treat a mysterious and deadly fungal infection which has shut down multiple hospital intensive care units. Candida auris is ...

A vaccine created by University of Georgia researchers to battle multiple life-threatening fungal infections is also effective against Candida auris in mice, according to a new study published in ...

Mount Sinai researchers have enhanced hospital screening protocols for Candida auris, an often-drug-resistant fungal pathogen the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention considers an urgent global ...

Candida auris cases more than doubled from 2022 to 2024, CDC reports. How much of the rise in this drug-resistant fungus is real spread, and how much better detection?

Candida auris, a deadly fungal infection, is spreading in Illinois and Indiana, part of a larger U.S. increase. Although first identified in Japan in 2009, the first U.S. case was reported in 2016.