Rapidly mutating yeast causing more infections

Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 07:01 in Health & Medicine

During the recent years yeasts have been causing more and more infections in humans. One of them can mutate surprisingly quickly by reorganising its chromosomes. This enables this yeast to tolerate higher doses of anti-fungal medicine. This is shown by new research findings from the Lund University in Sweden...

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