Indeed, over 6.5 million people are infected yearly with a life-threatening fungal infection, leading to 3.8 million deaths. ... As with bacteria and antibiotic resistance, ...

Solanimycin: Biosynthesis and Distribution of a New Antifungal Antibiotic Regulated by Two Quorum-Sensing Systems. mBio , 2022; DOI: 10.1128/mbio.02472-22 Cite This Page : ...

More information: Miguel A. Matilla et al, Solanimycin: Biosynthesis and Distribution of a New Antifungal Antibiotic Regulated by Two Quorum-Sensing Systems, mBio (2022). DOI: 10.1128/mbio.02472 ...

And, as with antibiotics, their widespread use in agriculture is serious problem. Antifungal resistance is not getting nearly as much attention as antibiotic resistance – yet the risks to global ...

When those prescribers were ranked by the volume of antifungal treatments they prescribed, the top 10 percent—13,106 prescribers—accounted for about 45 percent of all the antifungal ...

Why Prolonged Antibiotic Use Increases Risk Of Fungal Infections. According to a 2022 study published in Cell Host & Microbe, long-term antibiotic use increased the risk of fungal infections.

Antibiotics are powerful medications that help treat bacterial infections. Urinary tract infections, pneumonia, and ear ...

It turned out the antibiotics caused a defect in the anti-fungal immune response, specifically in the gut. Antibiotic-treated mice had much higher levels of fungal infection in the intestines than ...

In a study published May 10 in the journal mBio, a team of researchers used cheese rinds to demonstrate how fungal antibiotics can influence how microbiomes develop. [Related: Beehives are the ...

Many of the fungal pathogens are resistant to treatment with current drugs – of which only four classes are in use – or can rapidly acquire resistance during treatment or in their natural environment.