Diagnosing a dangerous infection by a fungal yeast that often devastates hospital patients is now faster and more efficient. The new blood test has the potential to improve patient outcomes, as the ...

Over the last year, Dr Ghannoum has been making some serious noise in the world of digestive health, by explaining that gut health isn’t just about bacteria, but fungi as well. That’s right, you have ...

LEXINGTON, Mass., July 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- T2 Biosystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTOO), a leader in the rapid detection of sepsis-causing pathogens and antibiotic resistance genes, announced today the ...

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 153, No. 3 (Mar., 1986), pp. 579-585 (7 pages) The utility of two latex agglutination tests in detecting antigenemia in patients with invasive candidiasis was ...

What Are the Symptoms of Invasive Candidiasis? People who have other medical conditions are often at risk of getting invasive candidiasis. It can be difficult to tell which symptoms are caused by ...

Matching an infection with Candida auris, a pathogenic yeast, to an effective antifungal is a critical clinical decision. That decision relies on susceptibility testing, but commercially available ...

The FDA authorized the first test April 20 to identify emerging pathogen Candida auris, which can lead to serious infections in hospitalized patients. In particular, the agency approved marketing for ...

T2 Biosystems (NASDAQ:TTOO) confirmed its plans to add detection of fungal pathogen Candida auris to its FDA-cleared and CE marked T2Candida Panel. A rare and often deadly fungal species is spreading ...

A serological study of candidiasis was conducted with use of (1) sera sent to the laboratory by clinicians who suspected infections due to various organisms including Candida species, and (2) sera ...

On Monday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a press release. The announcement identified Candida auris as “an urgent antimicrobial resistance threat.” Unfortunately, like the ...