September 6, 2002

Online Course Helps Medical Professionals Learn to Diagnose and Treat Fungal Infections

Infectious-disease experts have long considered fungal infections to be the least interesting -- and most obscure -- area they can study, according to Robert H. Rubin, a professor of medicine at Harvard University who is also director of the Center for Experimental Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

"This is an area that has been for many years the backwater" of infectious-disease research, Dr. Rubin says.

But lately,