Health officials in Minnesota say the state is seeing an outbreak of a new, sexually transmitted fungal skin infection. The infection is caused by Trichophyton mentagrophytes type VII (TMVII), a ...

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Two cases of a common fungal infection known as tinea, or ringworm, failed to respond to standard treatment due to a recently emerged fungus in the United States, according to a recent Centers for ...

Minnesota is in the midst of what state health officials call the nation's "largest known outbreak" of TMVII, a sexually transmitted fungal skin infection that can cause severe ringworm.

The Minnesota Health Department revealed on February 11 that about more than 30 cases of sexually transmitted ringworm have been confirmed in the state. Understand how serious is this fungal infection ...

The first U.S. cases of a drug-resistant strain of ringworm have been detected in New York City, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Ringworm, also called tinea, ...