Tiny fungi may have sex while infecting humans

A fungus called microsporidia that causes chronic diarrhoea in AIDS patients, organ transplant recipients and travellers has been identified as a member of the family of fungi that have been discovered to reproduce sexually. A team at Duke University Medical Centre has proven that microsporidia are true fungi and that this species most likely undergoes a form of sexual reproduction during infection of humans and other host animals...

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