Findings
from an innovative new study led by researchers at Dartmouth's Geisel School of
Medicine and published this week in Nature Microbiology reveal that the way in
which human fungal pathogens form colonies can significantly impact their
ability to cause disease.
Highly
diverse and adaptable, these colonies, known as biofilms, allow invasive fungal
pathogens such as Aspergillus fumigatus to grow and thrive, infecting the lungs
of patients, even under demanding environmental circumstances.
The
research found that the appearance of the organism can actually tell medics
something about how it is going to behave in the lung -- in this case, how this
particular morphology gives the organism the ability to be more virulent and to
cause more host damage.
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Posted by Dr. Tim Sandle, Pharmaceutical Microbiology
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