It frequently causes diseases, including diaper rash, paronychia, and onychomycosis, by infecting skin folds like the groin, underarm, and armpits. Yeast forms enter the epidermis during infection, ...

Fungal infection, also known as a mycosis, refers to the invasion of a host's tissue by specific types of fungi. Mycoses often start in the lungs following inhalation of fungal spores or on the ...

An electrician whose itchy lump was initially dismissed as a simple fungal infection is now battling cancer. In February 2020, Ben Collins, 24, from Colchester, Essex, discovered a lump in his ...

Understanding fungal infections These infections are caused by various types of fungi that invade and multiply in the body, ...

We’re going to assume that you’ve made it here because you have some highly uncomfortable yeast infection symptoms or other sitch happening down there that’s not your norm – the itching ...

Nail fungal infections are the most common diseases of the nails, making up about 50 percent of nail abnormalities. Fungus is ...

A quarter of the UK population have a fungal nail infection at any one time, yet only 11 per cent are aware of theirs, according to research by medicated footcare brand Excilor. “Signs include a ...

Fungal infections are evolving and becoming resistant to the medicines used to treat them, causing what some researchers are calling a "silent pandemic" that needs to be addressed urgently.

If you’re not sure whether you’re suffering from one or not, the signs of a fungal nail infection usually involve some discolouration of the affected nail. The nail might also be brittle and ...

Like The Last of Us’ parasitic fungal infection in humans, the real-world Gibellula fungus can make spiders act “like zombies” before death by making them stick to the underside of leaves ...

He had inserted a tube in her nose and was removing tissues infected with mucormycosis, a rare but dangerous fungal infection. This aggressive infection affects the nose, eye and sometimes the brain.