Nephrotoxicity of Penicillium aurantiogriseum, a possible factor in the aetiology of Balkan endemic nephropathy.

abstract：:We report a case of a 40-year-old Caucasian woman who came under our observation with a 7-year history of a chronic erythematous scaly dermatitis, diagnosed as psoriasis, involving gluteal area and thighs, and treated with topical steroids without benefit. During pregnancy, a progressive worsening of her condition and...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Mapelli ET,Borghi E,Cerri A,Sciota R,Morace G,Menni S

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fumonisin B1 (FB1), a mycotoxin produced by Fusarium moniliforme and F. proliferatum, induces liver damage and pulmonary edema in swine. We examined the temporal and dose-response features of FB1 toxicosis in male weanling crossbred pigs fed nutritionally balanced diets, containing corn screenings naturally contaminat...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Motelin GK,Haschek WM,Ness DK,Hall WF,Harlin KS,Schaeffer DJ,Beasley VR

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the technique of immunoelectroosmophoresis-immunodiffusion (IEOP-ID), two antigenic fractions of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis one of them species-specific, produced precipitin bands in both the cathodic and anodic zones. Reactions of complete identity among the bands formed in these zones were demonstrated by a...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Conti-Díaz IA,Mackinnon JE

更新日期：1980-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of mycetoma caused by the black fungus Madurella grisea in northern Brazil is reported. The lesion was located on the patient's right foot without bone involvement. Clinical samples were collected by opening the fistules with a scalp and the grains removed for microbiological and histopathological analyses. Alt...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Vilela R,Duarte OM,Rosa CA,Castro JG,Lyon S,Motta RL,Moura AC

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hair and scalp mycobiota of 1389 clinically normal children aged 6-12 years attending 12 schools in the Nablus District, Palestinian Authority, was assessed on three occasions over 8-month period (October 1998-May 1999) using the hair brush technique. One hundred and one fungal species belonging to 33 genera were reco...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Ali-Shtayeh MS,Salameh AA,Abu-Ghdeib SI,Jamous RM

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conidia produced by the mycelial form of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis were examined by scanning electron microscopy for the first time. Several different conidial types were characterized. These included intercalary arthroconidia, several types of septate conidia that are formed from other conidia, pedunculate co...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Samsonoff WA,Salazar ME,McKee ML,Restrepo A,Cano LE,Edwards MR

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyacrylamide gel electropheresis and thin layer chromatography (TLC) were applied to detect the fate of aflatoxin B-1 in milk fermented with an active culture of Streptococcus lactis (ATCC-11454). TLC analysis revealed the formation of two fluorescent metabolites (B2a and R0) in fermented milk. Electropheretic analy...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Megalla SE,Mohran MA

更新日期：1984-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutaneous lesions which can lead to false positive results have been observed in several rabbits used for the determination of the cutaneous irritation capacity of a product (ITA, PII). The responsible agent was Microsporum canis. A preventive treatment by an antifungal agent did not modify toxicological experimental ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Dutertre-Catella H,de Bievre C,Nguyen VH

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichosporon species are opportunistic pathogens associated with a high mortality rate in immunocompromised patients. Disseminated trichosporonosis is uncommon but reports are increasing. In this study, using 16 stock clinical isolates of suspected Trichosporon species and 4 known Trichosporon strains, we investigated...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Li HM,Du HT,Liu W,Wan Z,Li RY

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic dermatophytosis was observed in 2276 (10.02%) of 22,692 patients with dermatophytosis during a period of 5.5 years. Males were affected at least 3 times more frequently than females. The age group most commonly affected was between 20 and 40 years of age. Females were affected more between the ages of 30 to 40...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Sentamilselvi G,Kamalam A,Ajithadas K,Janaki C,Thambiah AS

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

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：:The major mycotoxin problem in Australia is the formation of aflatoxins in peanuts by Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus. This is controlled by good farm management practice, segregation into grades on aflatoxin content at intake to shelling facilities, colour sorting and aflatoxin assays. A second problem is the p...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Pitt JI,Hocking AD

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) is an insidious pulmonary disorder caused by hypersensitivity reactions mounted against Aspergillus fumigatus. Usually, complicating the course of patients with asthma and cystic fibrosis, the affliction has recently been described in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Agarwal R

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 227 marine isolates of ubiquitous fungi were cultivated on different media and the secondary metabolite content of the extracts (ethyl acetate/chloroform/methanol 3:2:1) characterized by HPLC. The fungi were secured from animals, plants and sediments of Venezuelan waters (0-10 m) including mangroves and lag...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Christophersen C,Crescente O,Frisvad JC,Gram L,Nielsen J,Nielsen PH,Rahbaek L

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:Chromoblastomycosis and phaeohyphomycosis represent two poles of a disease spectrum caused by melanized fungi. Veronaea botryosa belongs to a small genus of saprobic fungi that occasionally cause human infections. To date, 11 cases of V. botryosa-induced cutaneous phaeohyphomycosis have been actually reported since 19...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Zhu CY,Yang YP,Sheng P,Li W,Huang WM,Fan YM

更新日期：2015-08-01 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：:We previously described an in vitro assay showing that neutrophils (PMNs) from patients with paracoccidioidomycosis (PARA) have a specific digestive deficiency against suspensions of live Paracoccidioides brasiliensis. We now report that this defect is equally detectable against autoclaved, but not Amphotericin B-kill...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Goihman-Yahr M,Rothenberg A,Bretaña A,Istúriz G,Rosquete R,Avila-Millán E,Viloria N,Saavedra de Borges N,Carrasquero M,Pérez de Fernández B

更新日期：1989-04-01 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：:The habit of cigarette smoking is associated with higher oral candidal carriage and possible predisposition to oral candidosis. The effects of exposure to smoke on the virulence properties of oral yeasts remain obscure. Hence, we showed in vitro the effect of cigarette smoke condensate (CSC) on ten clinical isolates o...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Baboni FB,Barp D,Izidoro AC,Samaranayake LP,Rosa EA

更新日期：2009-11-01 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：:Ecologic and hygienic interests led us to analyze the mycoflora of the sands of a sand box for children's play in Turin. Along with traditional methods, we have also employed selective techniques suitable for the isolation of cellulolytic and keratinolytic fungi. A total of 89 species were isolated. As supported by th...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Filipello Marchisio V,Luppi Mosca AM

更新日期：1982-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichosporon species cause wide varieties of fungal infections. White piedra, a superficial fungal infection on the hair shaft, is caused by Trichosporon species. We report here a case of white piedra over the scalp due to T. inkin, a rarely isolated pathogen from such a lesion. The identification of the fungus was co...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Shivaprakash MR,Singh G,Gupta P,Dhaliwal M,Kanwar AJ,Chakrabarti A

更新日期：2011-12-01 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：:A case of a 62-year-old man with Candida krusei peritonitis secondary to duodenal perforation due to Candida duodenitis that was successfully treated with a 14-day course of caspofungin is reported. The potential role of Candida infection in the pathogenesis of peptic ulcers and duodenal perforation is considered. If ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Cascio A,Bartolotta M,Venneri A,Musolino C,Iaria C,Delfino D,Navarra G

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 1,303 sera from 202 patients at risk for disseminated candidiasis were analyzed for the presence of Candida antigen using a commercially available latex agglutination test (Cand-Tec). Twenty-three patients had disseminated candidiasis documented by positive blood cultures, deep biopsy culture and histopatho...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Sanchez ML,Pfaller MA,Cabezudo I,Bale M,Buschelman B

更新日期：1992-06-01 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：:Zoospores from the crayfish plague fungus Aphanomyces astaci could germinate and grow in vitro on scales of Salmo salar. The fungicidal activity of different compounds was tested against the fungus growing on fish scales as well as in lake water. Malachite green was the most effective fungicide, but scale mucus protec...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Häll L,Unestam T

更新日期：1980-11-28 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：: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