Fatal Talaromyces marneffei Infection in a Patient with Autoimmune Hepatitis.

abstract：:Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis with Hae III, Hind III and Msp I was performed in 45 Exophiala jeanselmei strains (30 Phialophora jeanselmei and 154 Phialophora gougerotii strains) and 31 Exophiala dermatitidis strains. The results were as follows, 1) P. jeanselmei and P. gougerotii are identical, 2) E. jeanselmei ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Kawasaki M,Ishizaki H,Nishimura K,Miyaji M

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of red grain mycetoma on the scalp is described. The disease, caused by Actinomadura pelletieri, is extremely rare in this part of the world, and from India this is perhaps the first case with scalp involvement. The lesion showed satisfactory response to partial excision followed by chemotherapy with streptomyc...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Bedi TR,Kaur S,Kumar B

更新日期：1978-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of this study were to evaluate the epidemiology of nosocomial candidemia in a tertiary hospital in South Brazil and the in vitro antifungal susceptibility of isolates. Blood strains from 108 patients were identified by PCR-based method. Some 30.5 % of candidemia were caused by Candida tropicalis, 28.7 % were ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： da Costa VG,Quesada RM,Abe AT,Furlaneto-Maia L,Furlaneto MC

更新日期：2014-10-01 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：:The introduction of RNA silencing machinery in fungi has led to the promising application of RNAi methodology to knock down essential vital factor or virulence factor genes in the microorganisms. Efg1p is required for development of a true hyphal growth form which is known to be essential for interactions with human h...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Moazeni M,Khoramizadeh MR,Kordbacheh P,Sepehrizadeh Z,Zeraati H,Noorbakhsh F,Teimoori-Toolabi L,Rezaie S

更新日期：2012-09-01 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：:Forty Fusarium isolates obtained from maize fields were screened for moniliformin production on maize kernels. Twelve isolates, including seven of F. subglutinans, were found to produce moniliformin at levels ranging from 0.4 to 64 ppm. Twenty six isolates were also screened for production of deoxynivalenol, diacetoxy...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Hussein HM,Baxter M,Andrew IG,Franich RA

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：: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：:A case of bursitis due to Prototheca wickerhamii is briefly reported. In histological sections the organism stained well with fungal stains, grey with silver methanamine and red with periodic acid Schiff reagent. This unicellular achlorophyllous alga was studied on common laboratory media. The characterization of the ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Kapica L

更新日期：1981-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 200 Albizia lebbeck trees at Sultan Qaboos University campus wilted and died. The symptoms were dieback of large branches due to infection by Scytalidium dimidiatum. The fungus has also infected Ficus benghalensis, F. carica, F. retusa, Thespesia populnea, Delonix regia and Peltophorum petrocarpum. This is the fi...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Elshafie AE,Ba-Omar T

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparative study was conducted with soybean material presenting symptoms of the Diaporthe/Phomopsis complex that was collected in two distant geographical regions of the world: Beltsville, MA, USA, and Vojvodina, Yugoslavia. Contrasting with earlier findings, great variability in the disease symptoms was observed, ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Nevena M,Jelena V,Franić-Mihajlović D

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coccidioidomycosis is a systemic infection caused by the soil-dwelling dimorphic fungi Coccidioides spp. The disease is endemic in semiarid Northeast Brazil, where it is caused by C. posadasii. The aim of this study was to perform antifungal susceptibility tests of clinical and environmental strains of C. posadasii fr...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Cordeiro RA,Brilhante RS,Rocha MF,Fechine MA,Costa AK,Camargo ZP,Sidrim JJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：: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：:In a preliminary study, 256 feed samples collected from different parts of Northern India were examined for the presence of aflatoxigenic strains of Aspergillus favus/parasiticus and for detection of Aflatoxin B1 (AFB1). Out of 198 A. flavus and 15 A. parasiticus strains isolated, 76% and 86% respectively, were found ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Dutta TK,Das P

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phoma herbarum has been associated with two outbreaks of systemic mycosis in hatchery-reared chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) fingerlings. Affected fish exhibited abnormal swimming behavior, exophthalmia, multiple rounded areas of muscle softening, protruded hemorrhagic vents, and abdominal swelling. In all a...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Faisal M,Elsayed E,Fitzgerald SD,Silva V,Mendoza L

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an attempt to evaluate effects of bacterial endotoxin on systemic fungal infection, experimental systemic Aspergillus infection was induced in leukemic mice (AKR strain) with (Group B) or without (Group A) preceding intraperitoneal administration of Pseudomonas aeruginosa derived lipopolysaccharides. All mice in gr...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Abe F,Katoh T,Kaneko T,Hotchi M

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to understand the reproductive biology of pathogenic species in the Sporothrix schenckii complex, we characterized the partial mating type (MAT1-1) loci of Sporothrix schenckii, as well as the S. globosa MAT1-1-1 gene, which encoded 262 amino acid sequences. The data confirmed that the MAT1-1 locus of S. glob...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Kano R,Tsui CK,Hamelin RC,Anzawa K,Mochizuki T,Nishimoto K,Hiruma M,Kamata H,Hasegawa A

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of five fungicides, benomyl (1 mg/l), dodine (50 mg/l), manzate (100 mg/l), cupric sulphate (200 mg/l) and thiabendazole (4 mg/l) was tested under in vitro conditions on development of 15 isolates of fungi pathogenic for insects and other invertebrates (Beauveria brongniartii, Culicinomyces clavisporus, Dud...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Luz C,Netto MC,Rocha LF

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterium Enterobacter cloacae is presently used for biocontrol of postharvest diseases of fruits and vegetables and as a preplant seed treatment for suppression of damping-off. This bacterium has apparent affinities for several grass species, but it is not considered to be an endophyte. While screening corn for f...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Hinton DM,Bacon CW

更新日期：1995-01-01 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

abstract：:Tinea capitis (TC) is the most common type of dermatophytosis in children. The epidemiology of TC depends on the geographical areas, and it changes over time. The aim of the study is to determine the incidence of TC and to identify the causative species in children observed at Dermatology Outpatient Department of the ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Mapelli ET,Cerri A,Bombonato C,Menni S

更新日期：2013-10-01 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：:In order to improve the isolation and identification of yeasts in a cancer research hospital, a protocol was developed utilizing an improved blood culture methodology and a four-test schema for rapid yeast identification. The blood culturing technique, based upon centrifugation, has shown a ten-fold increase in isolat...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Land GA,Dorn GL,Fleming WH 3rd,Beadles TA,Foxworth JH

更新日期：1978-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of Rhinosporidium seeberi have demonstrated that this organism has a complex life cycle in infected tissues. Its in vivo life cycle is initiated with the release of endospores into a host's tissues from its spherical sporangia. However, little is known about the mechanisms of sporangium formation and endospore...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Mendoza L,Herr RA,Arseculeratne SN,Ajello L

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six water-soluble nystatin-polyvilnylpyrrolidone complexes with respective MW of 10 kDa (NC1), 25 kDa (NC2), 30 kDa (NC3), 40 kda (NC4), 90 kDa (NC5), 360 kDa (NC6) were synthesized. The activity of the complexes was compared with that of nystatin against growth and spore germination of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. radici...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Charvalos E,Tsatsakis A,Tzatzarakis M,Dolapsakis G,Stiakakis J

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most important forms of the occurrence of protothecosis is bovine mastitis. Studies on the "in vivo" and "in vitro" susceptibility to antimicrobials have shown that the microorganism is resistant to most of them. Looking for alternative treatments this study aimed to study the susceptibility to copper sulph...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Melville PA,Benites NR,Sinhorini IL,Costa EO

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caries and chronic periodontitis are common oral diseases where a higher Candida colonization is reported. Antifungal agents could be adjuvant drugs for the therapy of both clinical conditions. The aim of the current study has been to evaluate the in vitro activities of conventional and new antifungal drugs against or...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： De-la-Torre J,Ortiz-Samperio ME,Marcos-Arias C,Marichalar-Mendia X,Eraso E,Echebarria-Goicouria MÁ,Aguirre-Urizar JM,Quindós G

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antifungal activity of base-soluble proteins (BSP) and methanol-soluble polysaccharides (PS) from A. flavus resistant (Yellow Creole) and susceptible (Huffman) genotypes of corn were investigated by in vitro studies. Bioassays of fungal growth inhibition in agar media showed antifungal activity by proteins and pol...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Neucere JN,Godshall MA

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00