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CDFD research finds how fungal pathogen which kills 2.5 million people every year evades host immune cells

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CDFD research finds how fungal pathogen which kills 2.5 million people every year evades host immune cells

Researchers at BRIC-Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD) on Thursday (October 3, 2024) have announced that they had discovered how fungal pathogen ‘Candida glabrata’, which resides in the mouth, gut and genitourinary tract of healthy humans, evade killing by host immune cells. Globally, more than 2.5 million people are said to be dying of…

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Deadly Fungal Infections Are Evolving And Causing “Silent Pandemic”, Scientists Warn

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Deadly Fungal Infections Are Evolving And Causing “Silent Pandemic”, Scientists Warn

Agricultural practices are contributing to the problem, experts said. (Representative pic) Fungal infections are evolving and becoming resistant to the medicines used to treat them, causing what some researchers are calling a “silent pandemic” that needs to be addressed urgently. According to molecular biologist Norman van Rhijn from the University of Manchester in the UK,…

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