Talk:Fungal infection

Requested move 12 August 2021

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. Consensus for page to be moved to Fungal infection. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jack Frost (talk) 03:57, 21 August 2021 (UTC)

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Mycosis → Fungal diseasesFungal diseases – Common term, used by several main textbooks, "Mycoses" a possible alternative. Term describes numerous types of conditions caused by numerous types of fungi. Whispyhistory (talk) 03:35, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

• I support this proposed name change. WhatamIdoing (talk) 14:38, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

• Or..Fungal infection as an alternate singular. Whispyhistory (talk) 15:39, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

  That option sounds even better. WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:27, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

• Support Fungal infection per WP:PLURAL and WP:COMMONNAME.--Shibbolethink ^{(♔ ♕)} 15:51, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
• Support per COMMONNAME (Fungal infection)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 23:21, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks...Fungal infection sounds good Whispyhistory (talk) 12:33, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

• Another supporting voice for Fungal infection as an appropriate and reader-friendly page name. 86.186.155.255 (talk) 17:26, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Improvement of article by adding information about commensal fungi

Now there stands: "Fungi are everywhere, but only some cause disease." Would it be possible to add little bit more information about commensal fungi, that is, about 400 species what could and do live on healthy human skin, but cause disease only when host organism is weakened e.g. by antibiotics. Smth like, ".. only some cause disease. Some, like Candida albicans, are normal commensal habitants of the human digestive tract or skin. They do not result in disease unless some change in the circumstances of the host lowers its natural defences." Source: same book as referenced after exemplar sentence, what i cannot copy here, listed under no. 13 in References, but Chapter 1, p. 6. Am unable to add reference myself. Addition about commensal fungi needs not to be in this place, as it is good to keep intro of an article as short as possible, but somewhere in the article it would greatly improve quality of information on the topic. BirgittaMTh (talk) 08:46, 1 July 2026 (UTC)