Medical mycology and fungal immunology: new research perspectives addressing a major world health challenge
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Medical mycology and fungal immunology: new research perspectives addressing a major world health challenge
Fungi cause more than a billion skin infections, more than 100 million mucosal infections, 10 million serious allergies and more than a million deaths each year. Global mortality owing to fungal infections is greater than for malaria and breast cancer and is equivalent to that owing to tuberculosis (TB) and HIV. These statistics evidence fungal infections as a major threat to human health and a...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0462