Antibacterial activity of marine-derived fungi.

abstract：:South Africa currently has an estimated 500,000 AIDS orphans, many of whom are HIV-positive. Oral candidiasis commonly occurs in both adult and paediatric HIV/AIDS patients. Published information on HIV-positive children in Africa mainly concerns hospitalised patients. The objective of this study was to determine the ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Blignaut E

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlorhexidine is widely used as a bacterial drug whose method of action has been well described in bacteria. Its fungicidal properties have been proved. We show here the effects of a sublethal dose of a preparation of digluconate of chlorhexidine on budding Candida albicans. A fungistatic action is revealed by a decre...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Bobichon H,Bouchet P

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the year of 1994, 417 samples of agricultural commodities, comprising: maize, compound animal feeds, oil seeds, soya bean, fish meal and forage were examined for fungi and over 20 mycotoxins using a multi-screen augmented with individual assays. Trichothecenes had the highest incidence of over 19% in all sample...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Dutton MF,Kinsey A

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of candidiasis in 125 symptomless, non-gravid women in Ile-Ife State Hospital, Ile-Ife, Oyo-State of Nigeria was determined by either microscopic observation or cultural methods. Among the three techniques investigated, the cultural method had the highest recovery rate with 60% of the cultures from 125 p...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Elegbe IA,Botu M

更新日期：1982-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Until the present decade, no studies had been conducted in Puerto Rico on the saprophytic distribution and variety of Cryptococcus neoformans. Samples (522) of pigeon droppings from 14 western towns were tested for the presence of C. neoformans. The yeast was recovered from 24.7% (129 isolates) of the samples, represe...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Ruiz A,Vélez D,Fromtling RA

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Onychomycosis is a common condition that represents up to 50% of all nail problems and 30% of all cases of dermatophytoses. Trichophyton rubrum and Trichophyton interdigitale are the most common agents involved in this condition. In cases of recurrent post-treatment onychomycosis, strain fingerprinting could reveal wh...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Santos DA,Araújo RA,Hamdan JS,Cisalpino PS

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichosporon species are opportunistic pathogens associated with a high mortality rate in immunocompromised patients. Disseminated trichosporonosis is uncommon but reports are increasing. In this study, using 16 stock clinical isolates of suspected Trichosporon species and 4 known Trichosporon strains, we investigated...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Li HM,Du HT,Liu W,Wan Z,Li RY

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heat stability of ochratoxin A in green coffee beans inoculated with Aspergillus ochraceus was studied. Heat treatment (roasting) at 200 degrees C for 10 or 20 min reduced the levels of ochratoxin A by only 0-12% in the dried whole beans. Almost all of the ochratoxin A was infused into the coffee decoction when th...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Tsubouchi H,Yamamoto K,Hisada K,Sakabe Y,Udagawa S

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of microfloral components on medicated and non-medicated swine and chicken feed pellets and crumbles, produced in a Manitoba feed mill between June 1991 and October 1992, was determined. Addition of medicates to feeds generally decreased bacterial incidence and increased that of Eurotium spp. fungi. The...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Mills JT,White ND,Woods SM

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary conidia of the entomopathogens Erynia (subgenus Neopandora) delphacis (1 isolate) and Erynia (Neopandora) neoaphidis (3 isolates) were stimulated to form germ-tubes with Tween 20 and with free, long-chain fatty acids, each incorporated into Entomophthora complete medium (ECM). When combined with other basal me...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Uziel A,Kenneth RG

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phoma herbarum has been associated with two outbreaks of systemic mycosis in hatchery-reared chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) fingerlings. Affected fish exhibited abnormal swimming behavior, exophthalmia, multiple rounded areas of muscle softening, protruded hemorrhagic vents, and abdominal swelling. In all a...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Faisal M,Elsayed E,Fitzgerald SD,Silva V,Mendoza L

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aflatoxins B1, G1 and their metabolites exist in the systemic blood as protein conjugate. This conjugation is specific to plasma albumin and proceeds enzymatically by liver and kidney cells. The aflatoxin-albumin conjugate is permanent and the conjugation is an irreversible one. This may interpret the acute liver ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Nassar AY,Megalla SE,El-Fattah HM,Hafez AH,El-Deap TS

更新日期：1982-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 1,303 sera from 202 patients at risk for disseminated candidiasis were analyzed for the presence of Candida antigen using a commercially available latex agglutination test (Cand-Tec). Twenty-three patients had disseminated candidiasis documented by positive blood cultures, deep biopsy culture and histopatho...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Sanchez ML,Pfaller MA,Cabezudo I,Bale M,Buschelman B

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Killer toxins were isolated from eight selected killer yeasts. Their activity on 100 Candida albicans isolates of human and animal origin was studied. A computer aided system for differentiating C. albicans strains was developed. By using this system, it was possible to differentiate 14 biotypes of C. albicans isolate...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Polonelli L,Castagnola M,Rossetti DV,Morace G

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fumonisins have been reported to have diverse effects on animals, including immunosuppression in chickens and feeder calves; therefore, the effects of fumonisin B1 (FB1) on immune function in BALB/c mice was investigated. When administered i.p. with sheep red blood cells (SRBC), 5 to 100 micrograms of FB1 reduced the ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Martinova EA,Merrill AH Jr

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenicity of Trichosporon dermatis isolated from skin lesions of a patient has been examined in mice. Balb/c mice were treated with two intraperitoneal injections of 100 mg/kg cyclophosphamide on days 4 and 1 and one subcutaneous injection of 10 mg/kg dexamethasone on day 1 pre-inoculation, and then challenged...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Lin YP,Yang YP,Huang WM,Chen YH,Li SF,Fan YM

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 69 samples of hay and straw collected during the winter period of 1984/85 were surveyed for their contamination by Aspergillus versicolor. The percentage of A. versicolor-positive samples was 14.5%. Nineteen A. versicolor strains mainly isolated from roughage were tested for the production of sterigmatocyst...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Lepom P,Kloss H

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of intraperitoneal paracoccidioidomycosis was studied in groups of female and male rats: a) Under normal conditions (intacts), b) After castration and c) After castration but submitted to a treatment with, respectively, testosterone and estradiol. The criterion of susceptibility to infection was based ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Kerr IB,Schaeffer GV,Miranda DS

更新日期：1984-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis with Hae III, Hind III and Msp I was performed in 45 Exophiala jeanselmei strains (30 Phialophora jeanselmei and 154 Phialophora gougerotii strains) and 31 Exophiala dermatitidis strains. The results were as follows, 1) P. jeanselmei and P. gougerotii are identical, 2) E. jeanselmei ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Kawasaki M,Ishizaki H,Nishimura K,Miyaji M

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently 11 Malassezia species were isolated. Attention has focused on the relationship between Malassezia species and Malassezia-related disease. The causal fungus of Pityriasis versicolor is M. globosa. The conditions of mycelial form induction are not clear for M. globosa. ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Morishita N,Sei Y

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new fumonisin has been isolated from Fusarium moniliforme isolate MRC826 grown on corn. It was shown by NMR and mass spectrometry to be an isomer of fumonisin B2 that has free hydroxyl groups at C-3 and C-10 instead of the normal C-3 and C-5. This new fumonisin was detected in cultures of most isolates of F. monilif...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Plattner RD,Weisleder D,Shackelford DD,Peterson RP,Powell RG

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The taxonomic position of the causal agent of fruit rot of olives was determined from fresh collections of the fungus from central Greece. In culture it formed two types of conidia, namely fusiform, hyaline, aseptate conidia typical of the genus Fusicoccum, and dark-walled, ovoid, ellipsoid or fusiform, 1-2 septate co...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Phillips AJ,Rumbos IC,Alves A,Correia A

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii and C. gattii were repeatedly isolated from decaying wood of trunk hollows in living trees growing in Jabalpur City in Central India. The isolation of C. gattii has been reported from decayed wood inside trunk hollow of Tamarindus indica (15.6%), Mangifera indica (2.2%), Pithecolobi...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Grover N,Nawange SR,Naidu J,Singh SM,Sharma A

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sporotrichosis is a mycosis which in our country has been described as only producing cutaneous and subcutaneous infections; in other countries it has been reported as causing pulmonary, bone, joint and meningeal infections. Possibly the systemic form also occurs in Venezuela since, along with the causative agent, all...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： de Albornoz MB,Villanueva E,de Torres ED

更新日期：1984-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:As actinomycetoma is more frequent in males than in females, the possibility that hormones might modify the Nocardia brasiliensis growth and the course of experimental actinomycetoma was explored. Five N. brasiliensis strains were grown on Sabouraud agar containing estradiol, progesterone or testosterone, in 3 differe...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Hernandez-Hernandez F,Lopez-Martinez R,Mendez-Tovar LJ,Manzano-Gayosso P

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Feed samples from Iowa suspected of causing vomiting and enlarged vulva as well as mortalities of swine were examined for toxigenic fungi and mycotoxins Fusarium moniliforme Sheldon and F. moniliforme Sheldon var. subglutinans Wollenew. & Reink. accounted for 43% and 18.5%, respectively, of the total count of 4.75 X 1...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Vesonder RF

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular immune response of 8 patients from the Brazilian Amazon region with chromoblastomycosis was analyzed. Primary immunological responses of patients were tested by contact sensitization to 2,4-dinitro-chlorobenzene (DNCB), or rejection of first set skin allografts. 2 of 8 patients were reactive to DNCB after...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Fuchs J,Pecher S

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small ruminant production is a common agricultural activity worldwide. However, studies on the fungal microbiota of these animals are scarce. Therefore, this study aimed at isolating yeasts from goats and sheep and evaluating the antifungal susceptibility of the recovered Candida albicans. A total of 120 animals from ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Brilhante RS,Silva ST,Castelo-Branco DS,Teixeira CE,Borges LC,Bittencourt PV,de Oliveira JS,Monteiro AJ,Bandeira TJ,Cordeiro RA,Moreira JL,Sidrim JJ,Rocha MF

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to detect antibodies against Paracoccidioides brasiliensis in dogs seropositive and seronegative for leishmaniasis. Sera from 836 dogs (449 positive and 387 negative to leishmaniasis) were analysed by ELISA and the immunodiffusion test using gp43 and exoantigen, respectively. The analysis of ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Silveira LH,Domingos IH,Kouchi K,Itano EN,Silva EA,Landgraf VO,Werneck SM,Camargo ZP,Ono MA

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal infection is a severe problem in children suffering from cancer. We report a case of a four-year-old girl who was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and multiple Aspergillus niger abscesses at the induction phase of the treatment. She was treated with granulocyte transfusions, liposomal amphotericin B ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Patiroglu T,Unal E,Karakukcu M,Ozdemir MA,Tucer B,Yikilmaz A,Deniz K

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00