Fungal diseases and antifungal resistance are both increasing worldwide. Misdiagnosis is common.
Find a list of fungal diseases and navigate to their sites for more information.
Estimated deaths, hospitalizations, outpatient visits, and financial burden of fungal diseases.
Appropriate use of antifungals in people, plants, and animals helps prevent antifungal resistance.
Professionals
Find lab protocols for fungal diagnostics and testing, and instructions for specimen submission.
Guidance for reporting fungal disease outbreaks, requesting CDC assistance, and response resources.
Select fungal diseases
- The fungus Aspergillus affects lungs in people with weak immunity. Antifungal resistance is growing.
- Blastomycosis is a lung infection caused by a fungus that lives in soil in parts of the U.S.
- The emerging fungus, C. auris can cause severe multidrug-resistant illness in hospitalized patients.
- Candidiasis occurs when Candida, a yeast that lives in parts of the body, grows out of control.
- Histoplasma, a fungus in soil, bird, and bat droppings in areas in the U.S., causes lung infections.
- Ringworm is a common itchy, round rash. The fungi that cause ringworm also cause nail infections.
- Valley fever (coccidioidomycosis) is a lung infection from a fungus in soil in parts of the U.S.
Fungal disease resources
Find and download social media graphics, fact sheets, infographics, and animated videos.
Join CDC each September for Fungal Disease Awareness Week (FDAW). Think fungus to save lives.
Access job aids and webinars and listen to podcasts featuring world experts in fungal diseases.