Australia’s huge diversity of reptiles could be at risk from new fungal diseases.
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Cases of valley fever are typically most prevalent in California’s Central Valley and southern Arizona, but they have been increasing in California’s central and southern coastal areas.
Fusarium oxysporum can infect over 120 plant species. Whether it destroys Cavendish bananas as it did their predecessor depends on the agricultural industry and consumers.
Our purpose-built “frog saunas” allow amphibians to warm up in winter and bake off chytrid infections. You can even DIY and build a frog sauna for your own backyard with our step-by-step guide.
Australian scientists have developed a cure for myrtle rust which could stop an unprecedented extinction event unfolding in native forests.
Australia’s biosecurity system is on high alert for alien invaders. Here’s a hit list of eight baddies we believe pose the greatest threat to Australia’s biodiversity.
Dangerous fungal infections are on the rise globally. But we have few drugs that work and no prospect of anti-fungal vaccines any time soon.
Wheat is an important global crop, but new research suggests that fungal toxins have contaminated half of all European wheat produced for food.
Scientists discover why antibiotics make life-threatening fungal infections such as invasive candidiasis more probable.
Aids deaths should be falling faster, but treatable fungal disease is keeping the numbers high.
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Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Life Sciences, University of Bath
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Associate Professor in Infectious Diseases, Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases Westmead Clinical School, University of Sydney
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Professor, Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham
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Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer, Molecular Fungal Biology, University of Bath
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PhD Candidate in Molecular Biology and Plant Pathology, The University of Queensland
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Principal Investigator, Manchester Fungal infection Group, University of Manchester
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Professor in Natural Resource Economics, Adelaide University
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University Fellow in Biodiversity, Charles Darwin University
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Schmidt Science Fellow in Conservation Biology, Macquarie University
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Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UMass Amherst
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PhD Candidate in Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
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Assistant Professor in Climate and Health Epidemiology , University of California, San Diego
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Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, University of Michigan
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PhD candidate in Wildlife Disease, The University of Queensland