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Color enhanced light micrograph (LM) of Candida auris, a yeast responsible for many infections. Resistant to most antifungal drugs, this fungus causes several deaths worldwide.

Blight review: The threat of a fungi-fuelled pandemic

19 July 2023

A new guide argues that infectious fungi and fungus-like pathogens are the most devastating causes of disease on Earth
UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1900: Giovanni Grewembroch - XVIII century. Manuscript: Doctor in Venice at the time of the plague. Watercolor. (Photo By DEA PICTURE LIBRARY/De Agostini via Getty Images)

Pathogenesis review: How infectious diseases have moulded civilisation

26 April 2023

From the development of agriculture to the global rise of religions, Jonathan Kennedy's book describes how infectious diseases have been a decisive force in shaping human history

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