In a 440 patients study in Vietnam, Dr Thuy Le and colleagues show that conventional amphotericin B is superior to itraconazole for the treatment of talaromycosis in AIDS. Their paper published this month in the New England Journal of Medicine, finds not difference in 2 week mortality (6,2%), but a substantially higher mortality at 24… Read more »
Monthly Archives:: June 2017
POOR FARMER’S FUNGAL SKIN CONDITION GETS APPROVAL FROM WHO AS ‘NEGLECTED’ AFTER LOBBYING BY GAFFI
GAFFI (Global Action For Fungal Infection) today welcomes news from the World Health Organisation (WHO) that it has classed the disease known as chromoblastomycosis – a disfiguring fungal disease of poor farmers in South America, Africa, and Asia – as a neglected tropical disease (NTD). Chromoblastomycosis also known as chromomycosis, is one of the most… Read more »