A RECENT multicenter study in China provides critical insights into the persistent threat of invasive fungal disease (IFD) among patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation ...

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New World screwworm was largely eradicated from the U.S. and Central America in the 1960s and 1980s, respectively. But the ...

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The fungus that causes coffee wilt disease repeatedly took up segments of DNA from a related fungal pathogen, which contributed to successive outbreaks of the disease, according to a new report.

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