Mycetoma is a common neglected disease caused by either fungi or bacteria which organize themselves into grains—areas of inflammation surrounded by a collagen capsule. Now, researchers reporting in ...

Mycetoma, a neglected tropical disease, can cause severe disfigurement and disability if not treated early. A holistic, community-based approach to detection and case management is effective at ...

Under the scorching sun of rural Rajasthan, a barefoot farmer walks through his field—a scene so ordinary it barely draws notice. But what neither he nor the world sees is that a tiny thorn prick on ...

The MycetOS (Mycetoma Open Source) project was launched today by the University of Sydney, Erasmus MC, and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) to use an Open Pharma approach to discover ...

Mycetoma is a common neglected disease caused by either fungi or bacteria which organize themselves into grains -- areas of inflammation surrounded by a collagen capsule. Now, researchers have studied ...

Mycetoma remains a neglected tropical disease that inflicts chronic subcutaneous infections—primarily in impoverished rural populations—often resulting in extensive tissue damage, disability and ...

The world's only research centre on mycetoma, a neglected tropical disease common among farmers, has been destroyed in Sudan's two-year war, its director and another expert say. Mycetoma is caused by ...

Osaka, Japan – A groundbreaking study led by a global research consortium offers new hope for patients with mycetoma, a neglected tropical disease. Researchers using an insect model and transcriptome ...

Mycetoma of the foot Mycetoma Research Center, University of Khartoum Two molecules that accumulate in the microenvironment of a mycetoma could play significant roles in the immune response that leads ...

A client came in for a consultation, and basically as most health professionals would agree, you never know what you are going to see, or have to deal with. Many persons are laid back and leave things ...

"Mashiaat Allah" — It is God's plan. In Sudan, a father utters this Arabic expression as he watches his son die slowly from a flesh-eating fungus. The phrase provides consolation in its ...