Vanderbilt University: New Discovery Shows Infection of the Lungs Can Be Caused by Hybrid Fungi
June 05, 2020
June 05, 2020
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 5 -- Vanderbilt University issued the following news:
A team of scientists at Vanderbilt has discovered the first known instance of a hybrid fungal species causing aspergillosis, an ensemble of different types of lung infections that often impacts immune-compromised people.
Aspergillosis has long been causally connected to Aspergillus fungi, a group of more than 300 species of filamentous fungi that includes the fungus that produces penicillin . . .
A team of scientists at Vanderbilt has discovered the first known instance of a hybrid fungal species causing aspergillosis, an ensemble of different types of lung infections that often impacts immune-compromised people.
Aspergillosis has long been causally connected to Aspergillus fungi, a group of more than 300 species of filamentous fungi that includes the fungus that produces penicillin . . .