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Researchers at the University of Murcia have established the relationship between the size of the spores of the fungus Mucor circinelloides and its pathogenicity, which will help combat fungal infections, some fatal.
Rosa Maria Ruiz, Maria Cervantes, Santiago Torres, the research group "Molecular Genomics and Biotechnology of Fungi" in collaboration with the American Duke University, noted in an article that larger spores associated with one of the two sexual types the fungus are pathogenic, while the other smaller, no.
The findings of these researchers will help develop new treatments against the fungus, the causative agent of mucormycosis infection primarily affecting immunocompromised and diabetic patients.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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