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Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter

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Canadian Women's Infections - Are They Resistant to Antifongles?

Women with canada albicans infections that are very resistant to anti fongles. The first case was maybe a decade ago. But now what we're seeing almost every week or so in our programme is women with candida albican's infections which are drug resistant. So these anti fungle resistant vaginal yeast infections are part of a much bigger problem. Remember, fungal infections can happen in other parts of the body too. For example, one species of fungi causes a serious lung infection. Overtime, something strange happened. Patients started coming in with lung infections that were drug resistant from the beginning. That means the fungi were already resistant to treatment before they even infected a person.

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