Fungal infections are a growing challenge for hospitalized patients, and new treatments are badly needed.

A patient with leukemia undergoes a bone marrow transplant to treat her disease. The procedure goes well. But before her immune system has time to recover, another problem takes hold — a fungal infection caused by Candida, a type of yeast that lives on the skin or inside the body, commonly in the gut. It bypassed her hobbled immune system, making its way into her bloodstream, infecting her spleen and other internal organs, triggering sepsis. Her doctors are now in a race to keep her from becoming one of the estimated 19% to 24% affected patients who succumb to this type of invasive Candida infection…

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