The Coccidioides fungus which causes Valley Fever also spreads by soil-borne spores. In 2019, according to the U.S. CDC, there were just over 20,000 cases of Valley Fever. On average it kills 200 ...

Plants and animals. Flora and fauna. While these phrases are familiar, they don't contain another kingdom of organisms crucial to local habitats. These life-forms are neither plants nor animals.

Their findings about two different spore sizes of the fungus Mucor circinelloides, a pathogen that kills half or more of its victims, could help to develop new treatments and fight other types of ...

Many types of fungi can cause nail infections, but some common types include Trichophyton rubrum and Trichophyton interdigitale. Fungi are organisms that spread via spores.

Three types of fungi — Histoplasma, ... Human activities such as farming, gardening and construction can disturb the soil where these fungi live, stirring up spores.

How inhaled fungal spores cause fatal meningitis Date: June 27, 2019 Source: PLOS Summary: Pathogenic fungal spores capitalize on host immune cells to escape the lung and gain access to the brain ...

Scientists zapped mold spores in a laboratory and concluded that two types of fungus could survive a journey to the moon or Mars. There are both positive and negative implications about this news ...