Update on the contribution of galactomannan for the diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis.

abstract：:This study was conducted to evaluate the possible protector effect of bentonite and zeolite in Bovans chicks fed a diet containing 59 mg kg(-1) of fumonisin B1 (FB1) during 3 weeks. A total of 200 one-day-old male chicks were treated varying the amount of bentonite and zeolite. Chick weight was registered weekly. At t...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Vizcarra-Olvera JE,Astiazarán-García H,Burgos-Hernández A,Parra-Vergara NV,Cinco-Moroyoqui FJ,Sánchez-Mariñez RI,Quintana-Obregón EA,Cortez-Rocha MO

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dermatophytes are a group of fungi that invade keratinized tissues such as the skin, hair and nails. The aim of this study was to investigate the existence of the potential causative agents of dermatophytosis in the mosque area in Tokat, Turkey. Thirty mosques were included in the study. A total of two hundred samples...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Yenişehirli G,Karat E,Bulut Y,Savcı U

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scopoletin (7-hydroxy-6-methoxy coumarin) which inhibited the conidial germination of Corynespora cassiicola was isolated from the uninfected mature leaves of Hevea brasiliensis. Scopoletin was not detected in uninfected immature rubber leaves. The immature leaves produced scopoletin after being infected with C. cassi...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Silva WP,Deraniyagala SA,Wijesundera RL,Karunanayake EH,Priyanka UM

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-nine species and 16 fungal genera were isolated from Egyptian cotton seeds, cotton seed meal and cotton seed cake on 1% glucose-Czapek's agar medium incubated at 28 degrees C. Aspergillus was the most frequent genus and it emerged in 87-100% of the samples contributing 70-98% of total fungi in the three substra...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Mazen MB,el-Kady IA,Saber SM

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth of the biocontrol fungus Epicoccum nigrum was more sensitive to ionic solute water stress (NaCl) than non-ionic (glycerol) on potato dextrose-based media at -0.5, -3.0 and -5.5 MPa water potentials. Subsequent physiological manipulation of growth of E. nigrum in glycerol-modified media to -3.0 MPa water potenti...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Pascual S,Melgarejo P,Magan N

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-three cassava lines were selected from breeding populations at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria and screened in vitro for resistance to cassava anthracnose disease (CAD). The in vitro inoculation of stem cuttings with the fungus Colletotrichum gloeosporioides f.sp. mani...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Fokunang CN,Dixon AG,Ikotun T,Asiedu R,Tembe EA,Akem CN

更新日期：2002-01-01 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 use of molecular tools has led to the description of new cryptic species among different Aspergillus species complexes. Their frequency in the clinical setting has been reported to be between 10 and 15%. The susceptibility to azoles and amphotericin B of many of these species is low, and some of them, such as Aspe...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Alastruey-Izquierdo A,Alcazar-Fuoli L,Cuenca-Estrella M

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcosis is currently the most common life threatening mycoses found in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Extrapulmonary involvement is most frequently seen, especially in the central nervous system and skin. Clinical findings are non-specific, even in patients with meningitis. Thresho...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Sugar AM

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural infection of Aspergillus flavus was observed in adults of Blattella germanica. Though the adult insects exhibited no external symptoms, they became hypoactive and later died. The dead and experimentally infected insects repeatedly yielded Aspergillus flavus in culture on Czapek's medium. Direct microscopic obs...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Kulshrestha V,Pathak SC

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The natural reservoir of Histoplasma capsulatum var. duboisii, the etiological agent of histoplasmosis duboisii (African histoplasmosis) is not yet known. We report the isolation of H. capsulatum var. duboisii from soil admixed with bat guano and from the intestinal contents of a bat in a sandstone cave in a rural are...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Gugnani HC,Muotoe-Okafor FA,Kaufman L,Dupont B

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast-like forms of six P. brasiliensis strains were characterized and compared using in vitro (growth curve determination) and in vivo (pathogenicity to sensitive inbred mice) criteria. Strains Pb 18 and Pb 265 which behaved similarly in vitro, showing low counts of fungi and long mean generation times, were resp...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Kashino SS,Calich VL,Burger E,Singer-Vermes LM

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An improved DNA-mediated transformation system for nematode-trapping fungus Arthrobotrys oligospora based on hygromycin B resistance was developed. The transformation frequency varied between 34 and 175 transformants per microg linearized DNA and 93% of the transformants were stable for drug resistance when tested 100...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Jin X,Ming-He M,Xiao-Wei H,Ke-Qin Z

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A man with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia developed disseminated Scedosporium prolificans infection following chemotherapy for disease relapse while on posaconazole prophylaxis. Scedosporium prolificans infection during posaconazole prophylaxis has not been reported previously. This report is timely as the uptake of po...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Ananda-Rajah MR,Grigg A,Slavin MA

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterization of 62 isolates belonging to the genus Nocardia and related bacteria was obtained by using the API ZYM system. The difference in enzymatic profile should allow a relatively efficient, low-cost means to identify aerobic actinomycetes of clinical significance. ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Boiron P,Provost F

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans and other yeast-like fungi of clinical interest in decaying wood inside tree trunk hollows, bark and other plant materials is reported. The var. neoformans was isolated from 3 of 45 (6.6%) wood and one of 390 Eucalyptus bark samples. Two of the positive wood sa...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Randhawa HS,Mussa AY,Khan ZU

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspects of the fine structural characteristics of conidial and hyphal cells of the imperfect Chrysosporium state of the newly reported gymnoascaceous fungus, Renispora flavissima, are described and illustrated by electron micrographs of ultrathin sections. Preservation of the substructure of the thick-walled, smooth t...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Garrison RG,Mirikitani FK

更新日期：1983-01-17 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：:In a survey of the mycoflora and mycotoxins in foods and feeds, 66 samples of mixed poultry feeds and some component raw materials were investigated. Fungal counts ranged from < 10(2) to 1.3 x 10(6) CFU/g. Fusarium spp. counts ranged from 10(2) to 1.0 x 10(6) CFU/g. The fusarium spp. strains isolated were screened for...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Castellá G,Bragulat MR,Cabañes FJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although abdominal cryptococcomas and visceral cryptococcal lymphadenitis as part of disseminated fungal infection have been reported mostly in HIV-infected patients, localized intra-abdominal involvement due to Cryptococcus gattii has not been previously described in non-HIV-infected patients. In general, a smaller p...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Araújo BS,Bay M,Reichert R,Goldani LZ

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prototheca wickerhamii was isolated from the stool of a two month-old infant with diarrhea resistant to treatment. This is the first description from Spain of algae of the genus Prototheca isolated from human clinical specimens. The possible pathogenicity of the Prototheca in this case is discussed. ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Casal M,Zerolo J,Linares UJ,Ibarra A

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The habit of cigarette smoking is associated with higher oral candidal carriage and possible predisposition to oral candidosis. The effects of exposure to smoke on the virulence properties of oral yeasts remain obscure. Hence, we showed in vitro the effect of cigarette smoke condensate (CSC) on ten clinical isolates o...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Baboni FB,Barp D,Izidoro AC,Samaranayake LP,Rosa EA

更新日期：2009-11-01 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：:Contamination studies by ochratoxin A on pork kidney and chicken liver has been carried out in Catalonia (Spain). 73% of the pork kidney samples analyzed did not contain an amount of ochratoxin A over our detection limit (0.5 ng/g) whereas only 7% had contamination higher than 1 ng/g. None of the chicken samples analy...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Canela R,Viladrich R,Velazquez CA,Sanchis V

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clearance of cryptococcal polysaccharide (CP) from tissues and body fluids of nonimmune mice was studied. Mice were injected intravenously only with one mg of purified CP, and serum, urine and tissues were obtained from each animal at various intervals for a period of 84 days. Tissue extracts, serum and urine were tes...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Muchmore HG,Scott EN,Felton FG,Fromtling RA

更新日期：1982-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucormycosis is an acute necrotic fungal infection with a fulminant course. Earlier considered a rare entity, mucormycosis is being reported with increasing frequency in recent years, possibly due to the increase in immunocompromised population especially diabetic patients. We report three cases of rhinocerebral mucor...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Reddy SS,Rakesh N,Chauhan P,Sharma S

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phoma sorghina is reported for the first time as an opportunistic fungal pathogen. It was repeatedly isolated from patient as well as experimental animal. The identity and taxonomy of the fungus has been discussed. ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Rai MK

更新日期：1989-03-01 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：:Polyacrylamide gel electropheresis and thin layer chromatography (TLC) were applied to detect the fate of aflatoxin B-1 in milk fermented with an active culture of Streptococcus lactis (ATCC-11454). TLC analysis revealed the formation of two fluorescent metabolites (B2a and R0) in fermented milk. Electropheretic analy...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Megalla SE,Mohran MA

更新日期：1984-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic cladosporiosis is described in 25 merino sheep from a flock consisting 250 animals. The fungal pneumonia appeared after an intensive antibiotic treatment, because of a respiratory system disorder. The pen of the flock was humid and crowded, and animals had signs of respiratory distress, coughing, fever and an...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Haligur M,Ozmen O,Dorrestein GM

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00