Although every breath we take contains thousands of fungal spores, these spores do not trigger an immune response. Latgé and colleagues, writing in a recent issue of Nature, show that the surface ...

compared to days without thunderstorms (n = 919 days), daily asthma visits increased from 8.6 to 10 (p < 0.05), and air concentrations of fungal spores doubled (from 1,512 to 2,749/m 3), with ...

Mycoses often start in the lungs following inhalation of fungal spores or on the skin due to localized colonization. Multidrug resistance in the pathogenic fungus Candida glabrata is a growing ...

Brook, PhD, Richard T. Burnett, PhD In contrast to our findings for fungal spores, we were unable to detect an association between emergency asthma visits and weeds, grasses, or trees. The ...

A special enzyme on the surface of the fungal spores—glycosylasparaginase—apparently suppresses the release of ...