Resistance of Histoplasma capsulatum to killing by human neutrophils. Evasion of oxidative burst and lysosomal-fusion products.

abstract：:Bursitis is a common medical condition that can occur either with or without infection. We present a case of fungal olecranon bursitis in an immunocompetent individual caused by the new species Knoxdaviesia dimorphospora. It is a dematiaceous filamentous fungus characterized by the production of two different conidia:...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Guevara-Suarez M,Llaurado M,Pujol I,Mayayo E,Martin-Vicente A,Gené J

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Owing to a lack of appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for mycotic keratitis, approximately one million cases of preventable corneal blindness are reported each year. The number of keratitis cases due to infection with Fusarium is increasing significantly worldwide, many of which are not treated adequate...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Boral H,van Diepeningen A,Erdem E,Yağmur M,de Hoog GS,Ilkit M,Meis JF,Al-Hatmi AMS

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scedosporium and Lomentospora species are the second most frequent colonizing, allergenic, or invasive fungal pathogens in patients with cystic fibrosis, and are responsible for infections varying from cutaneous and subcutaneous tissue infections caused by traumatic inoculation to severe systemic diseases in immunocom...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Lu Q,Sun Y,Tian D,Xiang S,Gao L

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Penicillium genera, encompassing about 225 different species of fungi, are naturally present in the environment. These genera are poorly linked to human disease, except for Penicillium marneffei causing septicemia in immunocompromised hosts. Thus, Penicillium species recovered from respiratory tract samples are of...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Radulesco T,Varoquaux A,Ranque S,Dessi P,Michel J,Cassagne C

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the grain-plate method and on glucose- Czapek 's agar at 28 degrees C, fifty-eight species belonging to 26 genera were collected from barley (42 species and 19 genera), maize (29 species and 16 genera), sorghum (32 species and 17 genera) and wheat grains (42 species and 18 genera). The most frequent genera were ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Abdel-Hafez SI

更新日期：1984-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Disseminated histoplasmosis in South America is associated with AIDS in 70-90 % of cases. It is visceral and cutaneous, compromising the oral, pharynx, and laryngeal mucous membranes. The involvement of the nasal mucosa is unusual. Two patients with perforation of the nasal septum as the only sign of their disease wer...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Jaimes A,Muvdi S,Alvarado Z,Rodríguez G

更新日期：2013-08-01 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：:A total of 169 strains of the Aspergillus reference cultures in the Aspergillus flavus group maintained in the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) were studied for their aflatoxin-producing abilities in rice, peanut and semisynthetic medium, utilizing high pressure liquid chromatography. Fifty-nine of the strains ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Wei DL,Jong SC

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and fourteen soil samples collected from various areas of Israel were screened for the presence of keratinophilic fungi. Five species were isolated from the 59 positive samples, viz: C. keratinophilum--22 strains, C. evolceanui--18, C. serratus Eidam--10, M. gypseum--T. terrestre--4. Most of the geophilic ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Feuerman E,Alteras I,Hönig E,Lehrer N

更新日期：1975-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The prominence of seafood in Japan motivates close monitoring of its seas and marine lives for potentially pathogenic fungi. During the treatments of the male Pacific white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens) for paracoccidioidomycosis ceti (PCM-C), 5 white and floccose colonies showing identical genotype and m...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Kanegae H,Tomino N,Nakamura Y,Minakawa T,Yaguchi T,Izawa T,Sano A,Itano EN,Ueda K

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case is presented in which yeastlike cells resembling the yeast phase of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis were observed by microscopic examination of a urine sample. A mold identified as Mucor circinelloides was isolated from the specimen. It was converted to the yeast form by cultivation on Sabouraud agar incubated in...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Cooper BH

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of phytate on the production of aflatoxins by Aspergillus parasiticus and Aspergillus flavus grown on synthetic media was examined. In the absence of pH control (initial pH 4.5-6.5) for A. parasiticus, phytate (14.3 mM) caused a six-fold decrease in aflatoxins in the medium and a ten-fold decrease in those ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Ehrlich K,Ciegler A

更新日期：1984-08-30 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：:The rise of Candida spp. resistant to classic triazole antifungal agents has led to a search for new therapeutic options. Here, we evaluated combinations of antifungals in a checkerboard assay against two groups of Candida glabrata strains: one containing fluconazole-susceptible clinical isolates (FS) and another cont...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Alves IA,Bandeira LA,Mario DA,Denardi LB,Neves LV,Santurio JM,Alves SH

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We applied a flow cytometry apparatus (FCM) to differentiating Exophiala dermatitidis, E. moniliae and E. jeanselmei from each other. The wavelength of the argon laser emitted from the FCM was 488 nm and the aperture of nozzle from which the stream of fluid containing single cells was blown out was 100 micron. By irra...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Taguchi H,Tanaka R,Nishimura K,Miyaji M

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sesame seeds (Sesamum indicum L) from four different geographic locations in Sierra Leone were sampled for their mycoflora. Three toxigenic Aspergillus species: A. flavus Link ex Fries, A. ochraceus Wilhelm, and A. tamarii Kita were common to all samples. Penicillium citrinum Thom and two Fusarium sp. were found in sa...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Jonsyn FE

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A phosphate-solubilizing strain of Penicillium bilaii was tested for the production of gliotoxin and other toxic compounds. The strain was fermented under five different conditions to allow the expression of various metabolites, including gliotoxin. These included Czapek-yeast extract medium under both shaken and stil...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Savard ME,Miller JD,Blais LA,Seifert KA,Samson RA

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using four different assat procedures we found a 50 to 86% decrease in viability of Cryptococcus neoformans over a one year period after two towers in the Oklahoma City area were modified to exclude pigeons and weather elements, especially rain. In homogeneous pigeon dropping samples a sharp decrease in viability occu...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Ruiz A,Neilson JB,Bulmer GS

更新日期：1982-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Histoplasmosis and cryptococcosis are the most prevalent systemic mycoses in HIV-infected patients. The authors report a 20-year-old Brazilian HIV-positive woman with concomitant disseminated histoplasmosis and cryptococcosis. In addition, we review the reported cases described in the medical literature. ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Aronis ML,dos Santos RP,Goldani LZ

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tha auteurs have obtained a strain of Byssochlamys nivea from heat processed strawberries. The mold grown on synthetic media shows antibiotic properties. The metabolite responsible is patulin which has been purified and characterized. Several strains of B. nivea produced this mycotoxin. Patulin seems to be stable in s...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Percebois G,Basile AM,Schwertz A

更新日期：1975-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Histoplasma capsulatum var. duboisii is the etiological agent of African histoplasmosis, an important deep mycosis in West Africa. Not much is known about the physiological properties of this fungus. This communication reports on the extracellular proteolytic enzyme activity of this fungus. Five isolates of this fungu...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Muotoe-Okafor FA,Gugnani HC,Obidoa OO

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The aims of this study are to investigate the in vitro activities of micafungin and caspofungin that are two new echinocandin antifungal drugs against clinically isolated dermatophytes in China and to define MEC (minimal effective concentration) as the reading endpoints of this study in accordance with (Clinical a...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Bao YQ,Wan Z,Li RY

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organ transplant recipients (OTR) are at higher risk of developing life-threatening infections. In this study, we tested 527 Candida isolates obtained from the oral and genital mucosa from OTR and healthy controls in order to monitor antifungal susceptibility patterns in this particular risk group. Testing was carried...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Geusau A,Antoniewicz L,Poitschek C,Presterl E,Willinger B

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In earlier studies, biological control of Fusarium wilt of cucumber induced by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cucumerinum was demonstrated using nonpathogenic strains C5 and C14 of Fusarium oxysporum. Strain C14 induced resistance and competed for infection sites whether roots were wounded or intact, whereas strain C5 requ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Mandeel QA

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sporotrichosis is characterized by a wide range of clinical manifestations from mild fixed cutaneous forms to systemic dissemination of the disease, despite an apparent regular pattern of virulence of the etiological agent, S. schenckii. These facts suggest that immunological mechanisms of the host could play an impor...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Meléndez Ruiz CE,González Mendoza A,Sotomayor JM,Ruiz Godoy VM,Ramos Zepeda R

更新日期：1983-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterium Enterobacter cloacae is presently used for biocontrol of postharvest diseases of fruits and vegetables and as a preplant seed treatment for suppression of damping-off. This bacterium has apparent affinities for several grass species, but it is not considered to be an endophyte. While screening corn for f...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Hinton DM,Bacon CW

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of Candida albicans plated on media containing nalidixic acid (Nal) either die, adapt physiologically to Nal-tolerance or mutate ot Nal-resistance. The fraction of a population exhibiting each response depends on the growth phase of cells when plated and their nitrogen and carbon nutrition and growth temperature...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Sarachek A

更新日期：1979-09-17 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：:We present the case of an 18-year-old male patient admitted with complaints of fever and rapid weight loss since 3 months. Patient had multiple umbilicated papular to nodular lesions over chin and forehead region. Complete blood count revealed bicytopenia. An excisional biopsy of the skin lesions had revealed cutaneou...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Bharti P,Bala K,Gupta N

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The introduction of RNA silencing machinery in fungi has led to the promising application of RNAi methodology to knock down essential vital factor or virulence factor genes in the microorganisms. Efg1p is required for development of a true hyphal growth form which is known to be essential for interactions with human h...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Moazeni M,Khoramizadeh MR,Kordbacheh P,Sepehrizadeh Z,Zeraati H,Noorbakhsh F,Teimoori-Toolabi L,Rezaie S

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00