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Hybrid fungus involved in lung infections discovered – News-Medical.net
Aspergillus latus, a species of fungus previously found only in soil or plants, has been found for the first time in a hospital environment by an international group of researchers.
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Jul 19 2020
Aspergillus latus, a species of fungus previously found only in soil or plants, has been found for the first time in a hospital environment by an international group of researchers. The group sequenced its genome and discovered that it is actually a hybrid and is up to three times more drug-resistant than the two species from which it derives.
An article on the study is published in Current Biology and coauthored by researchers from Brazil, the Uni…
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