Deadly Fungus KillsThousands Every Year. Scientists Found Where It Hides.         

By Melissa Fleur Afshar

Genomic Dynamics of the Emergent Candida auris: Exploring Climate-dependent Trends

Manuel Jara ,

Alba Frias-De-Diego ,

Robert A Petit ,

Yiqiao Wang ,

Maria Frias ,

Cristina Lanzas 

Candida auris: Epidemiology Update and a Review of Strategies 

to Prevent Spread

In theory, C. auris could exist at a deeper skin level rather than on the surface of the skin. 

This could explain why individuals colonized with C. auris test negative at one time point but positive at another time point.

Justin. F. Hayes   Editors: Giuseppe Migliaretti, Francisco Guillen-Grima

MR Innovators Conference

22 - 24 September 2026

 Lisbon, Portugal

 

Targeting biofilm-driven antibioticresistance: emerging mechanisms and next-generation therapeutic interventions

Abdulkarim Mbaraka 1  Ritu Raj Meena 2 Ekta Menghani 2 Nidhi Verma 3*
Front. Microbiol., 23 April 2026 Sec. Antimicrobials, Resistance and Chemotherapy
             Volume 17 - 2026

IMAGE: Melanized Pleosporales associated biofilm causing Phaeohyphomycosis

 

ESCMID 2026: Antibiotic Resistance Genes Found in Newborns

20 Apr 2026 

WHO releases new target product profiles for urgently needed antibiotics

11 March 2026 

Departmental update

 

Geneva, Switzerland

March 23–24, 2027 • Congress Center Basel

 

CIA accused of secret bioweapon experiments linked to major outbreak in its own people

MORE: Deadly outbreak carried by invisible killers is wiping out animals in eastern US as crucial meat warning issued

By CHRIS MELORE, US ASSISTANT SCIENCE EDITOR

Published: 19:13 GMT, 6 March 2026 | Updated: 03:21 GMT, 7 March 2026

 

Norway study reveals how hospital sewage is spreading antimicrobial resistance

Researchers use genetic techniques to analyse sewage samples from hospitals in the Scandinavian country, demonstrating that effluent contains both known and previously unknown antibiotic-resistant genes.

Author: 

Manish P. Victor, Vera Radisic, Didrik H. Grevskott, Nachiket P. Marathe

Publication: 

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Highlights

• •
  ESBL-producing E. coli and Klebsiella strains were detected in hospital effluent and STP effluent.
• •
  Assembled 1205 ARGs from the metagenomes, including 349 novel ARGs.
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  523 MAGs representing several novel taxa were assembled from the sewage samples.
• •
  Non-clinical taxa carried clinically important ARGs encoding resistance against last-resort antibiotics.
• •
  Same clone of K. michiganensis and MAGs with same identity were shared between hospital and treated STP effluents.

Health and Healthcare Systems

Why we must act now on tackling antimicrobial resistance

Jan 20, 2026

Lora du Moulin

Lead, Global Health and Security, World Economic Forum

                                                                                                                          Image: National Cancer Institute/Unsplash

 

 

SPROUTING UP: BATTLE LINES DRAWN OVER AGENT GREEN  

by GRAIN | 6 Dec 2000 Seedling - December 2000   (ARCHIVAL)

"Once released into the environment, the deadly fungus cannot be recalled"

 

 

Deadly fungus is sweeping (UK) hospitals, leaked memo shows... horror illness is highly infectious and can lie dormant for years

By GABRIEL MILLARD-CLOTHIER, POLITICAL REPORTER

Published: 01:55 GMT, 9 November 2025 

The secret memo from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) warns of ‘significant outbreaks’ of the highly infectious fungus, known as Candidozyma Auris.

Even with worrying ‘under-reporting’ of cases by the NHS, there has been an alarming rise. 

The ‘situational awareness update’ suggests the Health Service is currently underprepared for the potentially lethal disease

Case reporting

All confirmed C. auris specimens should be reported to state and local health departments and CDC at candidaauris@cdc.gov. Laboratories are encouraged to submit C. auris isolates to the Antimicrobial Resistance (AR) Lab Network.

Candida auris: Epidemiology Update and a Review of Strategies 

to Prevent Spread

In theory, C. auris could exist at a deeper skin level rather than on the surface of the skin. 

This could explain why individuals colonized with C. auris test negative at one time point but positive at another time point.

 

Global antibiotic resistance surveillance report 2025: summary

13 October 2025

 | Executive summary 

DISCOVERY REPORT Gut fungi are associated with human genetic variation 

and disease risk 

Emily P. Van Syoc1,2*, Emily R. Davenport1,2, Seth R. Bordenstein 1,2,3* 1 One Health Microbiome Center, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, 2 Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, 3 Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

 

Academic Editor: Jotham Suez, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

 

MERICAReceived: March 28, 2025 Accepted: July 30, 2025 

      

Published: September 2, 2025

IMAGES: PLEOSPORA SP.  SKIN COLONIZATION / FOLLICULITIS 

The other black fungi: exploring the opportunists in the order Pleosporales

Sarah Ahmed - Ervin M Alcanzo - Qirui Li - Nadir Musa Abuzeid -Xin Zhou - Peiying Feng - Dea Garcia-Hermoso - Sybren de Hoog

 

"Additionally, deep-seated infections generally exhibit a predilection for immunocompromised hosts, but cases with cerebral dissemination are more common in immunocompetent individuals. "

Appeared online 25 March 2025

TYPE AND SITE OF INFECTIONS ATTRIBUTED TO PLEOSPORALES

A: Disease Type Distribution. B: Distribution of Infection Sites.