In vitro antifungal activity of micafungin and caspofungin against dermatophytes isolated from China.

abstract：:The effects of a modified natural porcine surfactant (Curosurf) on phagocytosis and killing of Cryptococcus neoformans by alveolar macrophages and on the production of superoxide anions were investigated in vitro. Attachment and ingestion were evaluated separately by a fluorescent quenching technique. The nitroblue te...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Gross NT,Camner P,Chinchilla M,Jarstrand C

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-seven strains of Cryptococcus neoformans and C. bacillisporus were examined for 44 biochemical characters and the results were analyzed numerically. One phenon emerged at the 86% level of similarity when strains were clustered according to their M-similarity values. All strains grew in ten carbon sources (D-glu...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Schmeding KA,Jong SC,Hugh R

更新日期：1984-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to determine which species of geophilic dermatophytes were present in Western Australian soils 299 samples were investigated. These samples were collected from a range of locations, 208 towns throughout the state and 91 samples from the Perth Metropolitan area. Most samples were collected from areas frequente...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： McAleer R

更新日期：1980-11-28 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：:A total of 57 samples of feedstuffs commonly used for animal nutrition in Colombia (corn, soybean, sorghum, cottonseed meal, sunflower seed meal, wheat middlings and rice) were analyzed for Fusarium contamination. Fusarium fungi were identified at species level by means of conventional methods and the ability to produ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Acuña A,Lozano MC,García MC,Diaz GJ

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nocardia beijingensis, a recently established new species, is an isolate from soil in China. During our taxonomic studies on 450 nocardial clinical isolates in Thailand and Japan, 17 strains from Thailand and 1 strain from Japan were found to have a similar physiological characteristic to those of N. beijingensis, suc...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Kageyama A,Poonwan N,Yazawa K,Mikami Y,Nishimura K

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dermatophytes are highly specialized pathogenic fungi that exclusively infect the stratum corneum, nails or hair, and it is evident that secreted proteolytic activity is important for their virulence. Endo- and exoproteases-secreted by dermatophytes are similar to those of species of the genus Aspergillus. However, in...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Monod M

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight food-borne mycotoxins epidemiologically implicated in human disease were tested for their cytotoxic effects on human cells previously immortalised and transfected to introduce human cytochrome p450 (CYP 450) genes. Such cells retain many characteristics of normal cell growth and differentiation while simultaneou...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Lewis CW,Smith JE,Anderson JG,Freshney RI

更新日期：1999-11-01 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：BACKGROUND:Saksenaea vasiformis is one of the numerous fungi of the Order Mucorales. Rapid progression and invasion of neighboring tissues are the most characteristic features of S. vasiformis mucormycosis. AIM:The objective of this review is the management of this type of infections. METHODS:Case report and literatu...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Gkegkes ID,Kotrogiannis I,Konstantara F,Karetsou A,Tsiplakou S,Fotiou E,Stamopoulou S,Papazacharias C,Paraskevopoulos IA

更新日期：2019-02-01 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：:A 59-year-old man visited our hospital. The patient had suffered from generalized tinea superficialis for thirty years, had been treated with several topical antifungal preparations and was administered griseofulvin at another hospital. Clinical manifestations were as follows: There were large pigmentations on the che...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Nishiyama C,Miyaji M,Morioka S

更新日期：1983-05-22 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：:Mucormycosis is usually an invasive mycotic disease caused by fungi in the class mucormycetes. Here we report a case of cutaneous mucormycosis due to Lichtheimia ramosa in a 20-year-old female patient with burn injuries. She was admitted to the hospital with accidental flame burns covering 60 % total burn surface area...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Kaur R,Bala K,Ahuja RB,Srivastav P,Bansal U

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to appreciate the pathogenicity of several geophilic Chrysosporium species (including Anixiopsis stercoraria, Chrysosporium keratinophilum, C. tropicum, C. pannorum, C. state Arthroderma curreyi, C. state of A. multifidum, and C. state of A. tuberculatum), the authors have realized two series of experimental ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Chabasse D,De Gentile L,Bouchara JP

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, Trichosporon taxonomy has been reevaluated and new genera of the Trichosporonaceae family have been described. Here, 26 clinical isolates were submitted for identification via sequencing of the intergenic space 1 (IGS1) region, genotyping, and investigation of virulence factors. Antifungal susceptibility was...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： do Espírito Santo EPT,Monteiro RC,da Costa ARF,Marques-da-Silva SH

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dematiaceous fungus, Phialophora richardsiae (Nannf.) Conant, was isolated from human bone. In culture the fungus produced no yeast forms and was less pigmented than two other P. richardsiae isolates. While growth rates were similar, colonial forms differed. Phialides were of two kinds. While both had broad bases an...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Yangco BG,TeStrake D,Okafor J

更新日期：1984-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Two distinct patterns of immune recovery inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) are recognized, paradoxical and unmasking IRIS. Here we raise some concerns regarding the first case of neuroPCM-IRIS published to date, as recently proposed by Almeida and Roza (Mycopathologia 177:137-141, 2017) for a patient originally described b...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Buccheri R,Benard G

更新日期：2018-06-01 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：:Three fungi, Alternaria humicola, A. pluriseptata and Aspergillus niger are being reported as new probable etiologic filamentous fungi, causing onychomycosis. The morphology and physiology of these fungi is discussed. ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Wadhwani K,Srivastava AK

更新日期：1985-12-01 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：: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：:Dermatophytes are among the most successful fungal pathogens in humans, but their virulence mechanisms have not yet been fully characterized. Dermatophytic fungi secrete proteases in vivo, which are responsible for fungal colonization and degradation of the keratinized tissue during infection. In the present study, we...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Kaplan E,Gonca S,Kandemir H,Döğen A,Hilmioğlu-Polat S,Ilkit M,Tanaka R,Yaguchi T,Uhrlaβ S,Nenoff P

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colletotrichum species are known as important pathogens of plants with an impact on crop production. Some of these species are also known as a cause of rare ophthalmic infections in humans. A case of keratitis caused by Colletotrichum dematium after corneal trauma in a 56-year-old woman is presented. Infection was dia...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Buchta V,Nekolová J,Jirásková N,Bolehovská R,Wipler J,Hubka V

更新日期：2019-06-01 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：:Candida albicans strain B 311-10 with and without starvation was cultivated in the minimal synthetic medium of Shepherd et al., modified without biotin, amino acids, low glucose concentration and with decreasing amounts of (NH4)2SO4, to determine the optimal growth requirement for this strain. All the experiments were...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Vidotto V,Ochoa LG,Cortes JM,Bruatto M

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present paper is to improve the understanding of the incidence of Candidosis in human infections. 85 species of Candida isolated from deep-seated and superficial Candidosis were studied. Identification was attained using the key of N. van Uden & H. Buckley (22). ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： van Gelderen de Komaid A,Silva J

更新日期：1985-02-01 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：:Fusarium spp. are recognized as the second most frequently filamentous fungi causing opportunistic infections and particularly important due to the increasing number of immunocompromised patients. F. keratoplasticum (a member of F. solani species complex) is one of the Fusarium species commonly associated with human i...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Chiewchanvit S,Chongkae S,Mahanupab P,Nosanchuk JD,Pornsuwan S,Vanittanakom N,Youngchim S

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An intracellular beta-hemolysin capable of lysing human, sheep and cow erythrocytes but not cells from some other animals was isolated from the cell walls of the three developmental cell-forms of Nocardia asteroides and characterised. The spherical cell-forms contained the highest amounts of the hemolysin (100 h.u./mg...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Emeruwa AC

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00