{"id":218105,"date":"2025-07-17T06:03:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/cannabis-extract-shows-promise-as-treatment-for-fungal-infections"},"modified":"2025-07-17T06:03:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:03:31","slug":"cannabis-extract-shows-promise-as-treatment-for-fungal-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/cannabis-extract-shows-promise-as-treatment-for-fungal-infections","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis extract shows promise as treatment for fungal infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cannabis-extract-shows-promise-as-treatment-for-fungal-infections.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two cannabis-derived compounds have shown remarkable effectiveness against fungal pathogens in laboratory tests, according to new Macquarie University research.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Promise: Dr Hue Dinh, pictured, and colleagues at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mq.edu.au\/faculty-of-science-and-engineering\/departments-and-schools\/applied-biosciences\/our-facilities\/galleria-facility\" target=\"_blank\">Macquarie University Galleria laboratory<\/a> are hopeful their discovery will lead to new treatments for common skin infections.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a study published in <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosntds\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pntd.0013081\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Journal of Neglected Tropical Diseases<\/em><\/a> (PLOS NTDs), researchers discovered that bioactives Cannabidiol (CBD) and Cannabidivarin (CBDV) killed harmful <em>Cryptococcus neoformans <\/em>- a WHO-listed priority fungal pathogen. The compounds also killed dermatophytes that cause common skin infections, and much faster than existing treatments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two cannabis-derived compounds have shown remarkable effectiveness against fungal pathogens in laboratory tests, according to new Macquarie University research. Promise: Dr Hue Dinh, pictured, and colleagues at the Macquarie University Galleria laboratory are hopeful their discovery will lead to new treatments for common skin infections. In a study published in The Journal of Neglected Tropical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}