Originally published by our sister publication Infectious Disease Special Edition
Healthcare costs for fungal infections are staggering in the United States.
In 2018 alone, the estimated expenditure was $6.7 billion for roughly 666,235 infections, according to a recent study in Open Forum Infectious Diseases (2022 Jan 10. doi:org/10.1093/ofid/ofab593).
“Many of the current diagnostic methods take days and can still fail to specify a specific pathogen,” said lead