Infectious Diseases

Study yields insights into pathogenic fungi - and beer

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, August 30th, 2005

Chemotherapy and organ transplantation not only take a huge toll on patients, but they can compromise the immune system and leave patients vulnerable to infections from microbes such as pathogenic fungi - the fastest-growing cause of hospital-acquired infections.

Now researchers from Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research have discovered one possible reason why these fungal microbes are such a scourge.

According to the research appearing in the August 7, 2005, online edition of the journal Nature Genetics, fungal microbes can quickly alter the appearance of their cell surfaces, their "skin," disguising themselves in order to slip past the...

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