Further toxic properties of the fungal metabolite dothistromin.

abstract：:To clarify the terbinafine (TRF) resistance mechanism in a TRF-resistant strain of Microsporum canis, the expression of the pleiotropic drug resistance (PDR1), multidrug resistance (MDR1), MDR2 and MDR4 genes were investigated by real-time quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) analysis, given the known interaction of the corresp...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Kano R,Hsiao YH,Han HS,Chen C,Hasegawa A,Kamata H

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxigenic saprophytic fungi were isolated from samples of shellfish, sediment and seawater obtained from marine shellfish farming areas. The 456 strains identified included 12 different genera, with a clear predominance (68%) of Penicillium, Aspergillus, Trichoderma and Cladosporium. To assess the risk of poisoning du...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Sallenave-Namont C,Pouchus YF,Robiou du Pont T,Lassus P,Verbist JF

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:Recently, relentless efforts to develop rapid, cost-effective, and reliable laboratory methods for daily diagnosis of fungal diseases such as aspergillosis appear to be materialized in the relatively new, but revolutionary matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry (MS) te...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Sanguinetti M,Posteraro B

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One-hundred forty samples of waste water were studied in search of algae of the genus Prototheca, that are potentially pathogenic to man. The samples were taken from collector outlets opening onto the Guadelquivir River. Nineteen cultures of Prototheca were isolated and identified as P. wickerhamii 9, P. zopffi 8 and ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Casal M,Solis F

更新日期：1981-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to evaluate the in vitro antimicrobial action of Origanum vulgare, Origanum majorana, Mentha piperita and Rosmarinus officinalis on Pythium insidiosum oomycete zoospores. The antimicrobial activity evaluation was performed by the broth microdilution method according to CSLI M38-A2 documentation...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Fonseca AO,Pereira DI,Jacob RG,Maia Filho FS,Oliveira DH,Maroneze BP,Valente JS,Osório LG,Botton SA,Meireles MC

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kernel samples of common and dwarf Brazilian cashew nuts were highly contaminated with field and storage fungi in comparison to healthy ones. In general, dwarf cashews were more contaminated than common. A total of 37 fungal species were identified. Aspergillus niger was the dominant species with more colonies being i...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Freire FC,Kozakiewicz Z,Paterson RR

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microorganisms capable of producing opportunist infections include the yeast-like organisms of the genus Candida, and the unicellular algae of the genus Prototheca, which share common features and can, therefore, lead to confusion. Their colonies are almost identical and they grow in the same culture media used ro...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Casal M,Linares MJ,Solís F,Rodríguez FC

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protothecosis refers to disease of humans and animals caused by infection with fungus-like, colourless microalgae of the genus Prototheca. Although protothecosis remains an uncommon infection, increasing numbers of human and animal cases are being diagnosed worldwide. This review summarises major new findings in basic...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Masuda M,Jagielski T,Danesi P,Falcaro C,Bertola M,Krockenberger M,Malik R,Kano R

更新日期：2020-11-18 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：:We analyze the prognostic potential of (1 → 3)-β-D-glucan (BG) levels in predicting clinical outcomes in patients with invasive fungal infections, on a population undergoing 253 episodes (177 with positive and 76 with negative outcome). Using linear regression analysis, we assessed the prognostic potential of kinetica...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Pini P,Venturelli C,Girardis M,Forghieri F,Blasi E

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report represents the results of the culture tests for fungi carried out in the Aosta Valley region of Italy from 1984 to 1989. The pathological material consisted of cutaneous scales, hair and nails. It was possible to identify 91.8% of the isolates: out of these, 36.1% were dermatophytes, 21% were Aspergillus s...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Dal Tio R,Lunardi M

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey on rhinosporidiosis in animals was conducted in Kanyakumari (K.K.) district of Tamil Nadu, India. Among 103 animals (40 bullocks, 45 cows, 15 heifers, 2 bulls and a buffalo), 19 (9 bullocks, 8 cows, 1 heifer and a she-buffalo) were found to be infected with Rhinosporidium seeberi. The study revealed the endem...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Moses JS,Balachandran C

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Onychomycosis are fungal infections affecting finger and toenails mainly caused by dermatophyte fungi and some Candida species. Low cure rates and frequent recurrence, development of a fungal resistance front to various antimicrobial agents topical and systemic, and an ineffective topical treatment make onychomycosis ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Flores FC,Beck RC,da Silva Cde B

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kodamaea (Pichia) ohmeri is an unusual yeast-form fungus that has recently been identified as an important etiology of fungemia, endocarditis, cellulitis, funguria and peritonitis in immunocompromised patients. We report a case of K. ohmeri fungemia in a 34-year-old hospitalized patient with thrombophlebitis. The pati...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Shaaban H,Choo HF,Boghossian J,Perez G

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histoplasmosis is an important systemic mycotic infection with a wide geographic distribution. Its occurrence has been mostly studied in the US (6) and in Central America (6), but very little is known about its distribution in Africa, where a specific variant exists. Skin test surveys in the Democratic Republic of Som...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Maresca B,Ali AI,Kobayashi GS,Sacco M

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ecological study was carried out on the fungal flora in the human lung of 159 autopsy cases. Fungi were isolated from 129 cases (81.1%). Filamentous fungi consisting of 918 strains were isolated from 113 cases, and the dominant genera were Aspergillus and Penicillium. Yeasts were isolated from 58 cases, and the dom...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Okudaira M,Kurata H,Sakabe F

更新日期：1977-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparative study among amphotericin B, 5-fluorocytosine, itraconazole and fluconazole in the treatment of experimental cryptococcosis in mice, was carried out. Seventy male Balb C mice were inoculated intraperitoneally with 10(7) cells of Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans. They were divided in 7 groups of 10 ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Bava AJ,Iovannitti C,Negroni R

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 30 bats belonging to four species, only one species, Brachyplylla cavernarum, yielded positive for Histoplasma capsulatum. Bats were collected at the Aguas Buenas Caves in Puerto Rico. The other species are: Artibeus jamaicensis, Monophyllus redmani portoricensis, and Erophylla bibombifrons; these resulted negative...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Carmajal Zamora JR

更新日期：1977-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of new fungal pathogens is increasing due to growing population of immunocompromised patients and advanced identification techniques. Fereydounia khargensis is a yeast and was first described in 2014 from environmental samples. As far as we know, this is the first report of human infections associated with ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Tap RM,Ramli NY,Sabaratnam P,Hashim R,Bakri AR,Bee LB,Ginsapu SJ,Ahmad R,Razak MF,Ahmad N

更新日期：2016-08-01 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：:During a period of 8 years 300 cases of dermatophytoses involving both hairy areas and the glabrous skin were found to be caused by M. canis. There was scalp involvement in 60%, including 8 infants and 27 adults; most of the adults presented Kerion-like lesions and presented various clinical aspects such as seborrhea ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Alteras I,Feuerman EJ,David M,Segal R

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipases have only been detected in a few fungi and yeasts, in particular in Candida albicans. Secreted phospholipases are considered by some researchers to be a potential factor of virulence and pathogenicity in C. albicans. Twenty-three Cryptococcus neoformans strains were tested in order to observe phospholip...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Vidotto V,Sinicco A,Di Fraia D,Cardaropoli S,Aoki S,Ito-Kuwa S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative observations were made on the development of Emmonsia crescens in the lungs of laboratory rats and mice, golden hamsters and guinea pigs after a nasal instillation of a heavy suspension of the saprophytic phase of the fungus. 95% of 80 experimental rats were found to be parasited against 80% of 200 inocula...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Boisseau-Lebreuil MT

更新日期：1975-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Cladosporium cladosporioides is a dematiaceous fungus with coloured mycelia and conidia due to the presence of dark pigments. The purpose of this study was to characterize the dark pigments synthetized by Cladosporium sp. LPSC no. 1088 and also to identify the putative polyketide synthase (pks) gene that might be invo...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Llorente C,Bárcena A,Vera Bahima J,Saparrat MC,Arambarri AM,Rozas MF,Mirífico MV,Balatti PA

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：:The potential for using the entomopathogenic fungus Lecanicillium muscarium to control the sweetpotato whitefly, Bemisia tabaci has been established in the laboratory by other studies. Laboratory studies however frequently overestimate the level of control achieved by biological control agents in the glasshouse. Befor...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Cuthbertson AG,Walters KF

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to select virulent strains of microfungi against Leucoagaricus gongylophorus, a symbiotic fungus cultivated by leaf-cutting ants. The results from in vitro assays showed that microfungal strains had a variable and significant impact on the colony development of L. gongylophorus. Specifically,...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Silva A,Rodrigues A,Bacci M Jr,Pagnocca FC,Bueno OC

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a survey of 296 sylvatic animals captured from virgin forests in the north-eastern and south-western Amazon of Brazil, Histoplasma capsulatum was isolated, via the indirect hamster inoculation method, from the liver and spleen of four common opossums Didelphis marsupialis and two pacas Agouti paca. The infected ani...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Naiff RD,Mok WY,Naiff MF

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungi of the genus Alternaria are ubiquitous indoor and outdoor airborne agents, and individuals are daily exposed to their spores. Although its importance in human infections and, particularly in respiratory allergies, there are no studies of how Alternaria spp. spores interact with host cells. Our aim was to study t...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Almeida MC,Antunes D,Silva BMA,Rodrigues L,Mota M,Borges O,Fernandes C,Gonçalves T

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00