It can be caused by an infection (bacterial, viral, fungal, or parasitic) or an eye injury. “People who wear soft contact lenses are most at risk from bacterial keratitis,” explains Dr Ionides.

Fungal infections are becoming increasingly resistant to medications, posing a significant global health threat. Researchers ...

Between 2020 and 2021, the U.S. saw a 95 percent rise in these treatment-resistant infections, roughly a third of which were ...

The pathogens considered most dangerous to human health included Aspergillus fumigatus, which comes from mold and infects the ...

Fungi have various tricks up their mycelia. They use enzymes to break down materials that can also cause havoc in the tissues ...

many of them harmless or even beneficial to human health. Among these are various species of yeast, which belong to the fungus kingdom. The microscopic yeast Candida albicans, commonly found in th ...

This makes it easier for for the fungus to colonize human tissue with severe courses of infection. An international research team has now published the results in Nature Microbiology. Aspergillus ...

One thing that real-world human fungi can do, which you probably won’t see as a major plot point in a zombie movie or TV show, is cause some hair loss. If you have a fungal infection on your ...

The "zombie fungus" in the show is ... is considered extremely unlikely. The human immune system and higher body temperature protect against such infections. Historical cases such as ergot ...

Fungicide resistant infections include Aspergillus ... the close similarities between fungal and human cells which, say the experts, means it is hard to find treatments that selectively inhibit ...