In vivo and in vitro characteristics of six Paracoccidioides brasiliensis strains.

abstract：:An improved DNA-mediated transformation system for nematode-trapping fungus Arthrobotrys oligospora based on hygromycin B resistance was developed. The transformation frequency varied between 34 and 175 transformants per microg linearized DNA and 93% of the transformants were stable for drug resistance when tested 100...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Jin X,Ming-He M,Xiao-Wei H,Ke-Qin Z

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This case report discusses a patient with sickle cell disease who presented with fungemia from Pichia anomala (teleomorph: Candida pelliculosa). The organism was identified as P. anomala by MALDI-TOF VITEK mass spectrometry and VITEK 2 yeast identification card. Pichia anomala should be considered in sickle cell patie...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Chan AW,Cartwright EJ,Reddy SC,Kraft CS,Wang YF

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this research was to study the effects of different concentrations of magnesium oxide nanoparticles (MgO NPs) on the growth and key virulence factors of Candida albicans (C. albicans). The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of MgO NPs against C. albicans was determined by the micro-broth dilution method...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Kong F,Wang J,Han R,Ji S,Yue J,Wang Y,Ma L

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Edenia gomezpompae, isolated from a patient suffering from keratitis, who was an agricultural worker with a 4-year history of diabetes mellitus, is described. Fungal hyphae were detected in corneal scrapings after microscopic examination and repeated culture. Isolates were identified by morphology and by sequencing th...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Cui Y,Jia H,He D,Yu H,Gao S,Yokoyama K,Li J,Wang L

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Killer activity expressed at pH values ranging from 3.5 to 6.0 was found in the ustilaginaceous yeast-like species, Pseudozyma tsukubaensis. Its killer phenotype was incurable, and extrachromosomal genetic elements were not detected. The toxin excreted with a molecular mass above 15 kDa is fungicidal, resistant to pro...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Golubev WI,Pfeiffer I,Golubeva EW

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated two DNA fragments from Sporothrix schenckii. These fragments were nonspecifically amplified from the whole-cell DNA using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primers originally designed in the gene encoding heat shock protein 70 of Mycobacterium leprae. Reverse transcription PCR demonstrated that the smal...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Sugita Y,Fukushima J,Murakami M,Takahashi I,Nakajima H

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:Coccidioidomycosis is a common infection in the desert southwestern USA; approximately 3 % of healthy persons in Arizona alone become infected annually. Coccidioidomycosis may be severe in immunocompromised persons, but experience among patients with solid organ cancer has not been fully described. Therefore, we aimed...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Fitterer C,Berg Z,Halfdanarson TR,Vikram HR,Kusne S,Orenstein R,Seville MT,Blair JE

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：: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：: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：:A series of glasshouse and incubator studies were conducted to investigate the role played by Pythium splendens in a decline disorder of carambola, Averrhoa carambola. Plants, 4-6 months old, were grown in native calcareous soil either infested or not infested with the pathogen. Isolates recovered from atemoya, caramb...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Ploetz RC

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candidiasis was experimentally produced in young Japanese quail by oral administration of Candida albicans cells. Lesions were confined to upper digestive tract with most characteristic changes occurring on the mucosa of crop. No lesions were observed in other tissues of the body. The initial changes in the crop were ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Asrani RK,Gupta RK,Sadana JR,Pandita A

更新日期：1993-02-01 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 present study reproduced the experimental model of ocular paracoccidioidomycosis in guinea pigs, by the intracardiac inoculation of yeast-forms of P. brasiliensis. Ocular involvement was observed in 80% of the infected animals. The uvea, ciliary body, choroid, iris, lids and the conjunctiva were the structures mos...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Kamegasawa A,Viero RM,Rezkallah-Iwasso MT,Franco MF

更新日期：1988-07-01 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：:Four fungal isolates that were able to use vegetable tissues for multiplication in soil were isolated and identified as Pseudallescheria boydii based on morphological characteristics and ITS sequence similarity. When grown in broth prepared from the same vegetable tissues used in soil amendment, all these isolates of ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Ko WH,Tsou YJ,Ju YM,Hsieh HM,Ann PJ

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outbreak of exogenous Fusarium endophthalmitis after cataract surgery was evaluated. Twenty patients developed postoperative endophthalmitis. In 19 eyes, pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) was performed, in 14 cases (74 %) with primary intraocular lens explantation. In one case, the PPV was not performed because of poor gene...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Buchta V,Feuermannová A,Váša M,Bašková L,Kutová R,Kubátová A,Vejsová M

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of sporothricosis originating from the same geographical area (Province of Barcelona) are described, including the circumstances of infection and the isolation of a wild strain of Sporothrix schenckii at the same locality. This finding could classify this particular area as a zone of interest in the epidemio...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Ventin M,Ramírez C,Ribera M,Ferrandiz C,Savall R,Peyri J

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A ten year old boy developed lymphocutaneous sporotrichosis following a wild rodent bite. The infection was successfully treated with potassium iodide. Sporotrichosis in humans has followed bites, pecks and stings inflicted by a variety of animals, birds and insects. Many species of animals are susceptible to infectio...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Frean JA,Isaäcson M,Miller GB,Mistry BD,Heney C

更新日期：1991-10-01 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：: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：: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：:Early diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis (IA) is a challenge. Non-specific clinical and radiologic findings, as well as difficulties in conventional diagnostic method application, may delay correct diagnosis. Nowadays, nucleic acid-based assays have reduced the need for conventional antigen detection and culture-base...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Erman-Daloglu A,Ozhak B,Salim O,Turhan O,Ongut G,Gunseren F,Colak D,Ogunc D

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudallescheria boydii is a fungal organism known to affect immunocompromised patients. This organism is known to cause, in severe cases, invasive infection of various organs such as the central nervous, cardiovascular, and respiratory systems. We report an unusual case of pulmonary P. boydii pneumonia in an immunoco...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Lahmer T,Messer M,Ehmer U,Eser S,Beitz A,Fekecs L,Schmid RM,Huber W

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A phosphate-solubilizing strain of Penicillium bilaii was tested for the production of gliotoxin and other toxic compounds. The strain was fermented under five different conditions to allow the expression of various metabolites, including gliotoxin. These included Czapek-yeast extract medium under both shaken and stil...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Savard ME,Miller JD,Blais LA,Seifert KA,Samson RA

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A severe root rot disease of cotton caused by Pythium carolinianum was diagnosed in a cotton field in Beni-Musa village, 20 km southwest of El-Minia city, Egypt, during the summer of 1996. This was the first reported isolation of this fungus in Egypt. In the light of the importance of the cotton industry in Egypt, res...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Abdelzaher HM,Elnaghy MA

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural infection of Aspergillus flavus was observed in adults of Blattella germanica. Though the adult insects exhibited no external symptoms, they became hypoactive and later died. The dead and experimentally infected insects repeatedly yielded Aspergillus flavus in culture on Czapek's medium. Direct microscopic obs...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Kulshrestha V,Pathak SC

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucormycosis is an uncommon systemic mycosis affecting the immunocompromised individuals. It is usually caused by organisms of the genera Rhizopus and Mucor, although rarely other organisms have also been implicated. Mycoses due to these angioinvasive fungi have an acute onset, rapidly progressive course with high mor...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Vinay K,Chandrasegaran A,Kanwar AJ,Saikia UN,Kaur H,Shivaprakash MR,Dogra S

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disseminated histoplasmosis in South America is associated with AIDS in 70-90 % of cases. It is visceral and cutaneous, compromising the oral, pharynx, and laryngeal mucous membranes. The involvement of the nasal mucosa is unusual. Two patients with perforation of the nasal septum as the only sign of their disease wer...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Jaimes A,Muvdi S,Alvarado Z,Rodríguez G

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00