What is Black Fungus?
Black fungus, medically known as mucormycosis (sometimes called zygomycosis), is a rare but serious fungal infection caused by molds called mucormycetes. These molds are widespread in...
MAC lung disease is a chronic and potentially serious lung infection caused by the Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC)—a group of genetically related bacteria commonly...
Psittacosis is a zoonotic bacterial infectious disease. An obligate intracellular organism, Chlamydia psittaci, causes this disorder. Other names for this disorder are ornithosis and...
Melioidosis, or Whitmore's disease, is a potentially life-threatening infection caused by the gram-negative bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei, which is found in soil and water in...
Rocky Mountain spotted fever is an infectious illness caused by the bacterium Rickettsia rickettsii and carried by ticks. The disease starts with generalized flu-like...