11. A half century ago, ringworm, a fungal infection that most often attacks the scalp, was a common scourge among school-aged children. 12. Abelcet, also known as amphotericin B lipid complex, is approved treat asperigillosis, a systemic fungal infection that often affects AIDS patients. 13. But AIDS also makes the body susceptible to many secondary diseases, like malaria, tuberculosis, pneumonia, meningitis, fungal infections and cancer. 14. But if a fungal infection has occurred in your nail bed, it will cause the nail to grow out as you have described. 15. But the second pathology report at Hopkins found the patient to have a fungal infection that could respond to medicine. 16. FDA officials said they were satisfied that the drug did have an effect in treating fungal infections. 17. Findings, however, show that those who were caught in foglike clouds of dust after the quakes were most susceptible to the fungal infection. 18. For weeks before relief money and medicines arrived, villagers suffered rampant fungal infections, fevers, vomiting and malaria. 19. Fungal infections can also cause a thick appearance of the nail, as dead skin piles up underneath. 20. In this informative essay, Wendy Marston reports on the latest fungal infections that are emerging as the next microscopic killers. |