Histoplasmosis is a fungal infection with a variety of flu-like symptoms. Although it is not contagious, it can cause chronic complications. Learn more.
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Histoplasmosis: Causes, risk factors, and treatment
Histoplasmosis is a fungal infection with a variety of flu-like symptoms. Although it is not contagious, it can cause chronic complications. Learn more.
Zika virus may be linked to more eye problems in Brazilian babies with microcephaly
Ophthalmologists find retinal bleeding, abnormal blood vessel development and lesions in infants born to mothers who showed signs of the viral infection during pregnancy.
Smartphones enable the world’s largest disease study
Matthew Driver, managing editor of The Journal of mHealth, reports for MNT on the results of the largest infectious disease study ever undertaken.
Genomic sequencing reveals link between stis and leading cause of infectious blindness
For the first time, genome sequencing has been carried out on Chlamydia trachomatis (C.
S. aureus can spread from blood to eye, endangering vision
Nearly ten percent of cases of Staphylococcus aureus infections of the blood spread to the eyeball, according to a team of Korean clinical investigators.
Scientists describe new herpes treatment strategy
Scientists have developed a novel treatment approach for persistent viral infections such as herpes.
New enhanced microbial killing discovered in neutrophils
Case Western Reserve University researchers have discovered a novel population of neutrophils, which are the body’s infection control workhorses. These cells have an enhanced microbial killing ability and are thereby better able to control infection.
The global atlas of trachoma: an important tool in the fight against infectious blindness
An estimated 129.4 million people live in areas of Africa where blinding trachoma is confirmed to occur, according to a paper publishing August 8 in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. The distribution of the disease varies greatly across the continent, …