Aspergillosis of the Heart and Lung and Review of Published Reports on Fungal Endocarditis.

abstract：:This study investigated the aerobic degradation of phenol by yeast strains isolated from an oil refinery wastewater from the Northeast of Brazil. The samples displayed low fungal diversity, as only yeast colonies were detected on Sabouraud dextrose agar containing chloramphenicol 0.05% (w/v). Among the isolates, three...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Rocha LL,de Aguiar Cordeiro R,Cavalcante RM,do Nascimento RF,Martins SC,Santaella ST,Melo VM

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sunflower (Helianthus annuus) stem canker caused by Diaporthe helianthi is one of the most important sunflower diseases in Croatia. Until recently, sunflower was the only known host for D. helianthi. In our research carried out in the area of Eastern Croatia, isolates of Diaporthe/Phomospis were collected from Xanthiu...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Vrandecic K,Jurkovic D,Riccioni L,Cosic J,Duvnjak T

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：:Liposomes expressing external antibody specific for Candida albicans and encapsulating amphotericin B were developed and characterized in this study. Antibody was first modified by the covalent attachment of palmitic acid residues. Liposomes were produced by reverse-phase evaporation and modified antibody was incorpor...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Hospenthal DR,Rogers AL,Mills GL

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A severe case of juvenile paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM), manifested as cholestatic jaundice, lymph node enlargement and an unusual form of polyserositis, associated with portal hypertension secondary to schistosomiasis, as well as bacteremias caused by E. coli and S. aureus and post-transfusional hepatitis C is reporte...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Shikanai-Yasuda MA,Benard G,Duarte MI,Leite OH,Eira M,Mendes-Giannini MJ

更新日期：1995-05-01 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：: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：: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：:The systematic human hair degradation by Trichophyton terrestre was examined by electron and light microscopy. The cuticular and hair shaft regions were readily decomposed by the wild type or parent strain selected for phenotype studies after exposure to spaceflight parameters. ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Hsu YC,Volz PA

更新日期：1975-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently 11 Malassezia species were isolated. Attention has focused on the relationship between Malassezia species and Malassezia-related disease. The causal fungus of Pityriasis versicolor is M. globosa. The conditions of mycelial form induction are not clear for M. globosa. ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Morishita N,Sei Y

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred strains of the Aspergillus flavus group isolated from groundnuts (peanuts) growing in Israel were examined for their ability to produce mycotoxins in potato dextrose (PD) broth. Almost 77% of the isolates produced aflatoxin; aflatoxins B1 and B2 were formed by most of the isolates. Simultaneous production ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Lisker N,Michaeli R,Frank ZR

更新日期：1993-06-01 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：:A yeast strain isolated from feather waste from a chicken processing plant was identified as Candida parapsilosis by biochemical tests and morphological studies. The yeast was able to grow in phosphate-buffered saline supplemented with 1% native feather as the sole carbon and nitrogen source. A keratin substrate was o...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Vermelho AB,Mazotto AM,de Melo AC,Vieira FH,Duarte TR,Macrae A,Nishikawa MM,da Silva Bon EP

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult CBA mice showed considerably greater resistance to experimental infection with Aspergillus fumigatus than young animals of the same strain (P less than 0.01). Furthermore, in contrast with the young mice, the susceptibility of the adults was only moderately increased by treatment with cortico-steroids. On the ot...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Corbel MJ,Eades SM

更新日期：1977-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of temperature, pH, water potential and sources of nitrogen and carbon on the biocontrol agent Penicillium oxalicum were studied in vitro. The fungus is xerotolerant, mesophillic and has a wide pH tolerance. The parameters evaluated (germination, germ tube length, growth rate and sporulation) showed differe...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Pascual S,Rico JR,De Cal A,Melgarejo P

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basidiospores were isolated from the fruiting bodies of Ganoderma infecting oil palms from an estate in Johor and from ornamental palms (including oil palms) from Singapore. The spores were then germinated to obtain homokaryotic mycelia. Based on clamp connection formation in paired hyphal fusions, tester strains were...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Lim HP,Fong YK

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:Gliotoxin, one of the mycotoxins produced by Aspergillus fumigatus, has various, potent bioactivities. However, it has not been considered to be a toxic (or virulence) factor because of its slow production. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of aeration on the cytotoxicity of A. fumigatus cult...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Watanabe A,Kamei K,Sekine T,Waku M,Nishimura K,Miyaji M,Tatsumi K,Kuriyama T

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipase (Glycerol ester hydrolase E.G. 3.1.1.3) from a Brazilian strain of Penicillium citrinum free of the mycotoxin citrinin has been investigated. Citrinin production was inhibited by using culture medium containing olive oil, soybean oil and corn oil as carbon sources. Potassium concentration and pH play an importa...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Pimentel MC,Melo EH,Lima Filho JL,Durán N

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid and accurate method to quantify ochratoxin A (OTA) at ppt (pg/ml) levels in urine has been developed. The method uses commercial immunoaffinity columns for clean-up and reversed phase high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with fluorescence detector for quantification of the toxin. Average recoveries of...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Pascale M,Visconti A

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated phagocytosis and intracellular killing of clinical and environmental isolates of Aspergillus spp. by human monocyte-derived macrophages (MDMs). Serial pathogens such as Aspergillus fumigatus, Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus terreus were examined with a microbiological assay. Phagocytosis for resting...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Perkhofer S,Speth C,Dierich MP,Lass-Flörl C

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans is an opportunistic pathogen of human mucosal surfaces. Colonization of oral and vaginal mucosa by this yeast is antagonized by the resident normal bacterial population. However, antibacterial therapy can alter the normal flora to allow fungal cells to attach, grow and invade host tissues. We studied ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Liss RH,Letourneau RJ

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been over a decade since Cryptococcus gattii was first recognized as the causative organism of an outbreak of cryptococcosis on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. A number of novel observations have been associated with the study of this emergent pathogen. A novel genotype of C. gattii, VGIIa was described as ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Bartlett KH,Cheng PY,Duncan C,Galanis E,Hoang L,Kidd S,Lee MK,Lester S,MacDougall L,Mak S,Morshed M,Taylor M,Kronstad J

更新日期：2012-06-01 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：:Transformation of sterigmatocystin and O-methylsterigmatocystin (two metabolic aflatoxin precursors) to aflatoxins by aflatoxigenic and nonaflatoxigenic field isolates of Aspergillus flavus was studied. The 24 nonaflatoxigenic isolates investigated failed to transform both precursors. Among the 8 aflatoxin-producing i...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Pro MJ,Moreno MA,Suárez G

更新日期：1991-11-01 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：: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：:Melanin synthesis in Cryptococcus neoformans, catalyzed by phenoloxidase activity, is one of the oldest virulence factors known. However, until now, the relationship between melanin production in C. neoformans and its virulence has been poorly understood. Among different chemical compounds only Fe3+ and Cu2+ cations e...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Vidotto V,Defina N,Pugliese A,Aoki S,Nakamura K,Takeo K

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ALS1 and ALS3 encode cell-surface associated glycoproteins that are considered to be important for Candida albicans biofilm formation. The main goal of the present study was to monitor ALS1 and ALS3 gene expression during C. albicans biofilm formation (on silicone) under continuous flow conditions, using the Centers f...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Nailis H,Vandenbroucke R,Tilleman K,Deforce D,Nelis H,Coenye T

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The action of allylamine antifungal agents on Epidermophyton floccosum was studied using scanning electron microscopy. After 7 days of culture on Sabouraud dextrose agar, Epidermophyton floccosum samples were brought in contact with concentrations of 0.2 and 2 micrograms ml-1 and 0.01 and 0.1 micrograms ml-1 of naftif...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Butty P,Mallié M,Bastide JM

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00