Invasive aspergillosis and cryptococcal meningitis matter in hospitals and in people with damaged immunity. They are not the median mushroom walk. Foraging is culture and risk management: identity first, never 'if animals eat it'. This page does not identify wild mushrooms for the table.
Malassezia lives on sebum. Candida can bloom after broad antibiotics. Occupancy is normal; overgrowth is the complaint. Neutropenia, transplants and some HIV stages raise risk. Treatment is specialist medicine, not home remedies.
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Invasive aspergillosis and cryptococcal meningitis matter in hospitals and in people with damaged immunity. They are not the median mushroom walk. Foraging is culture and risk management: identity first, never 'if animals eat it'. This page does not identify wild mushrooms for the table.
Malassezia lives on sebum. Candida can bloom after broad antibiotics. Occupancy is normal; overgrowth is the complaint. Neutropenia, transplants and some HIV stages raise risk. Treatment is specialist medicine, not home remedies.
Penicillin (noted 1928) and statins from fungi rewired clinics. Soil and moulds remain chemical libraries. Fungi are neither plants nor animals, though molecular trees place them closer to animals. They digest outside the cell and absorb the soup — osmotrophy — behind a chitin-rich wall.
Once you see fungi as a kingdom, 'mould on bread' becomes one lifestyle among yeasts, mycorrhizae and human pathogens. Unlike cellulose in plants or peptidoglycan in bacteria. Chitin also appears in arthropod shells — a hint of shared history with animals.
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