Minnesota health officials are tracking a growing cluster of an unusual fungal skin infection that spreads through close ...

Unlike most fungi that cause ringworm, TMVII is spread through close sexual contact and is more likely to cause inflammatory ...

TMVII spreads through direct skin-to-skin contact, including sexual contact, and can cause severe and persistent rashes.

Sexually transmitted ringworm, known as trichophyton mentagrophytes genotype VII, or TMVII, is a fungus that infects the skin.

Health officials in Minnesota say the state is seeing an outbreak of a new, sexually transmitted fungal skin infection.