Utah officials are spreading awareness of Valley fever, an infection that is caused by breathing in fungus spores that live ...

Molds and yeast on human bodies and in the air are becoming increasingly resistant to treatment. Experts say the microbes are fueling the next superbug crisis.

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

Because researchers first identified cocci in California’s San Joaquin ... With a primary diagnosis of pneumonia, Irvin said doctors couldn’t understand why he wasn’t responding to antibiotics.

Diagnosing Valley fever is tricky, mostly because its symptoms overlap with other respiratory illnesses including flu, Covid and pneumonia ... is no drug that kills cocci, so what keeps you ...

Gram-positive bacteria can be cocci- (spheres) or bacilli- (rod ... Streptococcus pneumoniae is the cause of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). CAP is the seventh leading cause of death in ...

Pope Francis recently died at the age of 88 due to complications of double pneumonia, also called bilateral pneumonia. It is an infection of the lungs that occurs in both lungs at the same time.

Clinically, the features of acute bacterial pneumonia present no differently among gravid and nonpregnant patients. Hopwood [8] reported that among 23 pregnant patients who developed pneumonia ...