fungal

Richard Baxter piloted his recon rover into the fungal vortex and single-handedly held off six waves of mindworms.

The antifungal barely worked, but UV is known to be a treatment for both fungal infections and psoriasis.

It go so bad that the carpet started developing some sort of fungal growth, which was gross.

It has it's own biota, a bacterial/fungal/viral ecosystem that provides a living layer on which the bees work and live.

However, it's still true that the risk of fungal infection is increased by a substantial amount.

Results have included nylon, cotton, a human hair, a fungal fibre and a rodent hair.

Plants mainly fight using chemical poisons they leach into the soil and through fungal networks.

Simard now believes large trees help out small, younger ones using the fungal internet.

But who is supposed to teach people how to avoid fungal infections, if it's not part of their implicit cultural package of knowledge?

For example, the amount of moisture in your skin: too little and it cracks and bleeds, too much and you get fungal infections.

Ending up being a parasite she likely caught on a camping trip, which also brought on a combination of a fungal and viral infection.

Her PCP prescribed a 4-week regimen of heavy meds to kill off the parasites and fungal infection, and now she's back to eating normally.

But adding moisture to cracked-and-bleeding skin isn't making it "a bit more fungal" -- it's pushing it into the healthy buffer range.

"Rust", a fungal blight that has been around for decades is picking up the pace in our warming world.

Similarly, I have managed to "cure" a number of infections in my own body, both fungal and bacterial—and even, apparently, a few cavities—purely with a course of extra-strength expectorants and mucosal-membrane rinses containing biologically-safe surfactants (e.g.

Two reasons for this come to mind, in addition to the "rain on the roots" idea: dry surfaces are less able to support fungal/bacterial growth, and suspended water is less likely to damage the leaf cells with jagged ice crystals in the event of frost.

Fungal infections (something you practically never hear about) kill more people than influenza, but mostly the immune compromised.