OBJECTIVES The symptoms of fungal infections vary from minor to severe. According to recent reports, fungal infection prevalence is increasing due to increases in the aging population and in patients with compromised immune systems. However, the total prevalence of fungal infections in South Korea is unknown. We investigated the recent 5-year prevalence of each type of fungal infection in South...

Fungal diseases in insects are common and widespread and can decimate their populations in spectacular epizootics. Virtually all insect orders are susceptible to fungal diseases, including Dipterans. Fungal pathogens such as Lagenidium, Coelomomyces and Culicinomyces are known to affect mosquito populations, and have been studied extensively. There are, however, many other fungi that infect and...

There are 50 000-200 000 species of fungi, but only about 100 of these cause infectious diseases (mycoses) in humans.' Fungal infections are not readily recognised, do not advertise their presence in a characteristic fashion, and the causative organism is generally not easy to demonstrate in tissue.2 Musculoskeletal infection by fungi was once rare, but its incidence has increased in the past f...