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Research Links Crohn's Disease to Skin Fungus

Image shows inflammatory cells being recruited into the intestinal wall in laboratory mice with colitis exposed to the yeast Malassezla restricta.

The cover for the journal Cell Host & Microbe features a Cedars-Sinai study on fungus and Crohn's Disease by displaying an alcohol-ink painting of fungi floating among the villi of the intestinal mucus membrane.