Researchers discover hybrid fungus involved in lung infections
Monday, July 20, 2020 - 06:40
in Biology & Nature
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.