A dermatophyte known as Trichophyton mentagrophytes genotype VII (TMVII) has been identified as the cause of an emerging ...

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A rare sexually transmitted disease might have gone undetected had it not been for a recent federal funding stream to beef up the state’s genomic testing lab. Over the last three years, the state ...

She said, "In the UK, fungal allergies affect as many as 30% of hay fever sufferers and up to 70% of those with severe asthma, making fungal spores a significant health concern.