Primary cutaneous mucormycosis presenting as a giant plaque: uncommon presentation of a rare mycosis.

abstract：:We describe the case of a patient with a T-lymphoblastic lymphoma whose disseminated mucormycosis was diagnosed with delay, and we address the diagnostic and therapeutic decision-making process and review the diagnostic workup of patients with potential IFD. The diagnosis was delayed despite a suggestive radiological ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Zimmerli S,Bialek R,Blau IW,Christe A,Lass-Flörl C,Presterl E

更新日期：2016-08-01 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：:Cryptococcosis by Cryptococcus gattii occurs mainly in immunocompetent hosts, however, during the last decades, a growing number of cases in immunocompromised individuals have been noticed around the world. This report presents epidemiological, clinical and outcome aspects of patients with cryptococcosis caused by thi...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Damasceno-Escoura AH,de Souza ML,de Oliveira Nunes F,Pardi TC,Gazotto FC,Florentino DH,Mora DJ,Silva-Vergara ML

更新日期：2019-02-01 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：: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 strain ZK7 of Pochonia chlamydosporia var. chlamydosporia and IPC of Paecilomyces lilacinus are highly effective in the biological control against root-knot nematodes infecting tobacco. When applied, they require a specific monitoring method to evaluate the colonization and dispersal in soil. In this work, the ran...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Zhu ML,Mo MH,Xia ZY,Li YH,Yang SJ,Li TF,Zhang KQ

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hylastes ater and Hylurgus ligniperda are introduced pests of re-established Pinus radiata in New Zealand. Both species breed under the bark of stumps in recently harvested areas. Adult maturation feeding on pine seedlings planted in adjacent areas can significantly impact seedling growth, and in severe cases seedling...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Brownbridge M,Reay SD,Cummings NJ

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:Aflatoxin B1 (AFB1 ) is a carcinogenic mycotoxin found in feeds and in airborne grain dusts. Aflatoxin B1 requires biotransformation to the AFB1-8,9 epoxide (AFBO) by a bioactivation system and subsequent covalent binding to DNA or proteins, to exert its carcinogenic potential. The lung contains cytochrome P450, prost...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Palanee T,Dutton MF,Chuturgoon AA

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BAS 317 00F was not toxic to the total count of fungi after 2 days but was regularly significantly toxic at the three doses after 5, 20 and 40 days and toxic at the low and the high doses after 80 days. In the agar medium, it was toxic to the counts of total fungi. Aspergillus, A. terreus, Rhizopus oryzae and Mucor ra...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Abdel-Fattah HM,Abdel-Kader MI,Hamida S

更新日期：1982-08-20 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：:Sixty-nine farmer's lung patients and 28 normal controls from four countries (Finland, Switzerland, Canada and the United States) were investigated for antibody levels against 13 antigens commonly used for the screening panel for hypersensitivity pneumonitis. Of these antigens, eight were from the Medical College of W...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Kurup VP,Mäntyjärvi RA,Terho EO,Ojanen TH,Kalbfleisch JH

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans biofilms on most medical devices are exposed to a flow of body fluids that provide water and nutrients to the fungal cells. While C. albicans biofilms grown in vitro under static conditions have been exhaustively studied, the same is not true for biofilms developed under continuous flow of replenishin...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Uppuluri P,Chaturvedi AK,Lopez-Ribot JL

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：:Damage to human neurological system cells resulting from exposure to mycotoxins confirms a previously controversial public health threat for occupants of water-damaged buildings. Leading scientific organizations disagree about the ability of inhaled mycotoxins in the indoor environment to cause adverse human health ef...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Karunasena E,Larrañaga MD,Simoni JS,Douglas DR,Straus DC

更新日期：2010-12-01 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 diagnosis of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) is still in challenge in clinical practice, particularly for those patients without an obvious neutropaenia. In this study, a well-validated qPCR method and Platelia galactomannan (GM) assay were compared for their diagnostic performance using paired samples of b...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Zhang S,Wang S,Wan Z,Que C,Li R,Yu J

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：:A competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was developed for the xanthone dimer secalonic acid D. The immunogen and enzyme marker were prepared by direct reaction of secalonic acid D with bovine serum albumin and horseradish peroxidase, respectively. The resultant conjugates were characterized by UV/VIS spectra a...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Neucere JN

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans were previously described as being highly divergent in their level of capsule synthesis in vivo and in their virulence for mice. The highly virulent isolate (NU-2) produced more capsule than a weakly virulent isolate (184A) in vitro under tissue culture conditions and in vivo. T...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Blackstock R,Buchanan KL,Cherniak R,Mitchell TG,Wong B,Bartiss A,Jackson L,Murphy JW

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：:Pistachio nut samples taken during various stages of development from orchards in Iran, showed that contamination with fungi occurred mainly during the later stages of nut development. Members of the genera Aspergillus and Penicillium occurred most frequently. Of the Aspergilli, the species A. niger, A. flavus and A. ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Mojtahedi H,Rabie CJ,Lübben A,Steyn M,Danesh D

更新日期：1979-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A 7-year-old female-spayed, domestic short-haired cat was presented to her veterinarian with a mass on the hind paw. Histopathologic examination of a tissue biopsy revealed nodular pyogranulomatous panniculitis with intralesional pigmented fungal hyphae. A dematiaceous fungal isolate was isolated with a micromorpholog...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Overy DP,Martin C,Muckle A,Lund L,Wood J,Hanna P

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：:Cutaneous aspergillosis is a common systemic mycosis affecting immunosuppressed patients. Here, we describe a novel morphological type of cutaneous aspergillosis in a young immunocompetent woman who presented with a chronic history of multiple nodules and discharging sinuses over left side of the face, mimicking cervi...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Vinay K,Khullar G,Yadav S,Kanwar AJ,Saikia UN,Shivaprakash MR,Chakrabarti A,Dogra S

更新日期：2014-04-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:This paper describes four new cases of lymphomas, two Hodgkin lymphomas and two non-Hodgkin lymphomas in patients with paracoccidioidomycosis. All had mycosis diagnosed before lymphomas with Paracoccidioides brasiliensis demonstrated in several lymph nodes, as seen in the disseminated form of the disease. When lymphom...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Ruiz e Resende LS,Yasuda AG,Mendes RP,Marques SA,Niéro-Melo L,Defaveri J,Domingues MA

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00