He collected specimens that included a fungus used to treat ear aches, a sap for the relief of burns and leaves that are made into a powder for treating skin fungi.

"Ringworm" is not a worm at all, but a skin fungus.

Firebelly newts should never be kept with dwarf or clawed frogs, as these animals are known carriers of chytrid, a skin fungus that is generally fatal to most amphibian species.

What are the most prevalent types of skin fungus, and how do you know if you have one?

Whether you suffer with a rash, itchy skin, skin fungus or infection, skin bumps, or skin tags, there's good treatment available for a variety of skin diseases.

A study by the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, researched the DNA of human skin fungi at 14 different locations on the body.

If activated, the immune system in the skin produces cell-mediated immunity against microbes such as dermatophytes (skin fungi).

That skin fungus, in turn, leads to widespread extinction of harlequin frogs at middle elevations of mountainous regions.

Each time after the treatment the skin fungus returned even more apparent than the last time it was treated.