Invasive fungal infections in children appear to have increased over the past few decades. Substantial differences compared with adult patients in risk factors, pathogen epidemiology ...

Tinea capitis, which is most often caused by Trichophyton tonsurans,is among the most common fungal infections in children. [2] Tinea capitis occurs primarily in the prepubertal age group.

Prior to the report, the family had visited the Venado Caves in Costa Rica, which was linked to a previous histoplasmosis ...

These parents want others to take away from their story that if their child is immunocompromised, fungal infections can be deadly. Fungus is often airborne, especially with all the dust in the air.

Normally, a vacation to a tropical locale involves sunburns, maybe some bug bites, and sand stuck in your hair. For one family from the US, a sunburn would have been a dream. Instead, six adults and ...

A dozen family members — including one as young as eight — were sickened by histoplasmosis after coming in contact with bat droppings in a cave ...

Drier summers and wetter winters are expanding the range of the fungus. The same conditions drive increasingly intense ...

Andrej Spec, MD, leads the Invasive Fungal Infections Clinic at WashU Medicine, a globally recognized center that treats ...