Candida Auris is spreading more and more and perhaps the cause can be traced to the ongoing climate crisis, a research reveals.
You have surely heard of the terrible fungus candida, discovered in 2009, capable of killing a person in just 90 days, resistant to drugs and increasingly widespread on the planet, perhaps due to the climate crisis in progress.
The killer fungus adapts to global warming and it easily resists the temperatures of our body. According to a study published in the journal mBio, according to which the abuse of antibiotics and antifungals would not cause their development, as hypothesized in recent years, but climate change.
The researchers reached this conclusion by comparing their analyzes with the results of another study titled "On the Origins of a Species: What Might Explain the Rise of Candida auris?", According to which climate change would affect the spread of Candida. Auris and even its ability to infect various living things.
Considering this and after noting that the fungus appeared in three different countries very distant from each other, India, South Africa and South America, they subjected it to high temperatures by comparing its reactions with those of other genetically similar fungal species.
The result? It has adapted perfectly to high temperatures and as a result, the researchers realized that it can withstand the temperatures of the human body, which other fungi cannot. According to the experts who conducted the research, Arturo Casadevall, Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis and Vincent Robert, human-caused global warming will gradually raise temperatures by several degrees, thus reducing the magnitude of the gradient between ambient and basal temperatures of mammals. , including of course the man.
This means that with a warmer climate, fungal lineages that are more tolerant to temperature changes will be selected, able to withstand the thermal restriction of mammals. A problem not just given the danger of Candida Auris, which as we said is potentially lethal.
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