In the Anthropocene, in which we now live, climate change is impacting most life on Earth.
Microorganisms support the existence of all higher trophic life forms. To understand how …

Fungi are major contributors to the opportunistic infections that affect patients with HIV/AIDS.
Systemic infections are mainly with Pneumocystis jirovecii (pneumocystosis), Cryptococcus …

The global diversity of fungi has been estimated between 2 to 11 million species, of which
only about 155 000 have been named. Most fungi are invisible to the unaided eye, but they …

Soil biodiversity is increasingly recognized as providing benefits to human health because it
can suppress disease-causing soil organisms and provide clean air, water and food. Poor …

It is important to realize that guidelines cannot always account for individual variation among
patients. They are not intended to supplant physician judgment with respect to particular …

Endemic mycoses such as histoplasmosis, coccidioidomycosis, blastomycosis,
paracoccidioidomycosis, and talaromycosis are well-known causes of focal and systemic …

Coccidioidomycosis, colloquially known as Valley Fever, is an invasive dimorphic fungal
infection caused by Coccidioides immitis and C. posadasii. The fungi are found in the arid …

Few among the millions of fungal species fulfill four basic conditions necessary to infect
humans: high temperature tolerance, ability to invade the human host, lysis and absorption …

We review the major features of desert dust outbreaks that are relevant to the assessment of
dust impacts upon human health. Our ultimate goal is to provide scientific guidance for the …

Fungi must meet four criteria to infect humans: growth at human body temperatures,
circumvention or penetration of surface barriers, lysis and absorption of tissue, and …