Pneumocystis jirovecii #pneumonia is an opportunistic infection that affects HIV-infected and immunocompromised people. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, some COVID-19 patients without immunocompromise or HIV were infected with P. jirovecii. bit.ly/4dYF3yO

Out now in Nature Microbiology: Discovery of CO2 tolerance genes associated with virulence in the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans By Benjamin Chadwick, Xiaorong Lin & colleagues Read it here: rdcu.be/dSZ3w nature.com/articles/s4156…

The meetings by MSGERC are pretty brilliant. Especially the locations! They really know how to pick them.

Fungal diseases come from our environment. If we mess with our environment, we mess with the fungi in it - which adapt and change and are more of a threat to our health. Martin Hoenigl🇺🇦🇦🇹 laying out this threat #MSGERC2024

#somethingwickedthiswaycomes Martin Hoenigl🇺🇦🇦🇹 discussing emergence of environmental resistance in #aspergillus MSGERC #msgerc2024

Have you been diagnosed with histoplasmosis, blastomycoses, or coccidioidomycosis? We want to hear from you! We want to hear from patients directly to better understand treatment outcomes, side effects, and costs. Join our study today! fungalstudy.org MSGERC #IDtwitter

At #MSGERC2024 meeting Fungal infections & climate change driven by Martin Hoenigl🇺🇦🇦🇹 We have to make real serious changes in our environment, otherwise…

The 3 pillars of management of #mucormycoses: Antifungals, correction of underlying diseases, #surgery MSGERC #MSGERC2024

Although it's an infectious disease, the horrible fungal infection mucormycosis is primarily a SURGICAL rather than a medical emergency. Great to hear the surgeons perspective from Stephanie Shintani Smith, MD MS speaking to us at the MSGERC biennial meeting

Humbling statistics. No change in mortality for acute invasive fungal sinusitis over last 20 years. Need for new therapeutic approaches. MSGERC

Sexually-transmitted #tinea in MSM. Will we need to think about “Itra-prep”???? Oy! MSGERC #MSG2024

Matthew Pullen, MD MSGERC The prevalence of cocci in CA right now is astounding..

Duke #TxID faculty enjoying the Garden of the Gods while working hard at the MSGERC Biennial Meeting. Fungal learning and community building! #MSGERC2024