“Alabama is a hotbed for fungal diseases,” said Peter G. Pappas, M.D., professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases in the UAB Heersink School of Medicine. “We see as much or more in the way of fungal infections as anyone in the country.”
Alabama’s climate and population, and UAB’s reputation, mean that patients here can be cared for by specialists such as Pappas and Sixto M. Leal Jr., M.D., Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Pathology whose hospital labs can track the spread of fungal infections like nothing else in the state. That gives Alabama an advantage as new fungi are on the march around the world.
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