My motivation to join this Biology Stack Exchange is the article by David Pride that I've read from the Spanish edition of Scientific American, that's Investigación y Ciencia. The article is [1], and I think that is a very good work from the author and editors of this popular science magazine.
Question. I would like to know if the fungi of a termite mound have beneficial effects on health (related to diseases caused by viruses or bacteria) for the termites that live in the termite mound.
I add that Wikipedia has the article Fungus, and what's I evoke with my Question, is about if some species of fungi could live with the termites inside the termite mound and have beneficial effects on the diseases suffered by the termites. I don't know if this question is in the literature, feel free to answer my question as a reference request if you know references answering my question.
References:
[1] David Pride, Los virus de nuestro cuerpo, Investigación y Ciencia, Febrero 2021, Nº 533, pages. 76-83.