Fungal Diseases News

We checked in with CDC Director Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH, for an update on the agency’s efforts to modernize the nation’s disease surveillance and data systems and improve how the CDC communicates with the public and physicians.

Dermatologists should be on the lookout for new forms of a highly contagious fungal infection now being reported in the U.S., according to a press release from NYU Langone Health.

The annual conference of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology — focused on hospital infection prevention strategies — will highlight leadership opportunities this year.

Science has always been a passion of mine. I worked in research and microbiology for years, and while at home, I would read science journals, try to identify diseases from case studies and watch all the science shows.

We caught up with Gonzalo Bearman, MD, MPH, at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Spring Conference to ask how he got “Hooked on ID.”

Health officials identified a cluster of cases of feline sporotrichosis, as well as zoonotic transmission between one of the infected cats and a veterinary technician at a clinic in Kansas.

The European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases is getting a new name.

Given my family history of MDs — my father, siblings and spouses of my siblings are all physicians — I actively tried to steer clear of medicine, but in the end, I just couldn’t help myself.

Primary care providers can play an important part in Candida auris detection, according to an expert.

Artificial intelligence has emerged as a potentially important tool for patient care, including in infectious diseases.