Invasive fungal infections are now estimated to affect about 6.5 million people every year around the world, and while many ...

Human fungal pathogens exemplify a severe threat to health due to their complex infection strategies and the host's immune system's failure to eradicate them effectively. Species such as Candida, ...

PhD. Postdoctoral fellowship. Faculty position. This is the typical career course for scientists working towards a career in academia. Asiya Gusa, a microbiologist at Duke University, also hit all ...

Worldwide, cryptococcal meningitis kills up to 180,000 persons annually and is the most common cause of nonviral meningitis in the United States. Besides patients with immunosuppression due to human ...

To study this process, researchers need to identify rare instances of fungal invasion into the brain, but finding these examples requires the ability to study large sections of the organ. Carolina ...