Severe delays at NHS infection laboratories also mean that doctors who do send off skin samples suspected of containing the super-fungus can expect to wait as long as a month to get results.

Diabetics tend to be predisposed because they're just enough immunocompromised and a lot of diabetics are also overweight, and so they have folds in their skin that trap moisture and that's just ...

A gut fungus protects mice against parasitic worms ... The authors swabbed the skin at various body locations (Fig. 1) and sequenced samples taken from 42 individuals over 3 months to generate ...