Application of immunoprecipitation techniques to the diagnosis of cutaneous and extracutaneous forms of sporotrichosis.

abstract：:We report a case of cutaneous protothecosis due to Prototheca wickerhamii in an immunocompetent man presented with a specific eczema-like lesions. Dermatological examination revealed erythematous plaques, dark red papules with some coalescence, and a few superficial ulcerations, covered with less scales on his right s...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Zhang Q,Li L,Yuli K,Zhao Y,Zhu J,Zhu M

更新日期：2015-02-01 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：:Sediments from eight river mouths along the Catalonian coast (Spain) were surveyed for keratinolytic fungi and related Onygenales. The actidione plating technique was employed. Of 532 actidione-treated sediment samples, 268 (50.3%) were positive for the fungi. Altogether, 384 fungal strains from 35 species were isolat...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Ulfig K,Guarro J,Cano J,Gené J,Vidal P,Figueras MJ,Lukasik W

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of invasive Candida krusei infections can be difficult due to its intrinsic fluconazole resistance and its reduced susceptibility to amphotericin B and flucytosine. Caspofungin (CAS) acts on a different cellular target, and its combination with voriconazole (VOR) or amphotericin B (AmB) appears promising. We...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Oz Y,Dag I,Kiraz N

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-four isolates of the eight most common Fusarium species isolated from Norwegian cereals; F. avenaceum, F. culmorum, F. equiseti, F. graminearum, F. poae, F. sporotrichioides, F. torulosum and F. tricinctum were studied for their cytotoxicity and ability to produce mycotoxins. The strains were cultivated on rice...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Langseth W,Bernhoft A,Rundberget T,Kosiak B,Gareis M

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histoplasma capsulatum has not typically been associated with sinusitis in either immunocompetent or immunocompromised hosts. We report a case of sinusitis caused by H. capsulatum in a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and discuss the reported cases of this rare clinical manifestation of histoplasmosis in the ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Alves MD,Pinheiro L,Manica D,Fogliatto LM,Fraga C,Goldani LZ

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of Candida spp. infection is increasing, and resistance to azole antifungals is becoming increasingly common. Therefore, there is a need for discovery of new antifungal agents and for development of new modes of treatment using existing agents. In this in vitro study, the antifungal activity of two new imidaz...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Shi C,Liu C,Liu J,Wang Y,Li J,Xiang M

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：:As actinomycetoma is more frequent in males than in females, the possibility that hormones might modify the Nocardia brasiliensis growth and the course of experimental actinomycetoma was explored. Five N. brasiliensis strains were grown on Sabouraud agar containing estradiol, progesterone or testosterone, in 3 differe...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Hernandez-Hernandez F,Lopez-Martinez R,Mendez-Tovar LJ,Manzano-Gayosso P

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen fungal species were isolated from 182 specimens collected from four ruminants (buffalo, camel, cattle and sheep) in Southern Iraq. Fungi represented by five species of dermatophytes and eleven species of other fungi were screened for the activity of four enzymes: keratinase. proteinase, lipase and amylase. Ker...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Muhsin TM,Salih TH

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some epidemiologic, diagnostic and immunologic aspects of 93 (75 males and 18 women) cases of cryptococcosis (CRY) associated with AIDS, hospitalized in the Muñiz Hospital (MH) in Buenos Aires during 1994, were retrospectively studied. The median age (MA) of the patients under study was 28 years (17-49 y); 30 (17-49) ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Bava AJ,Negroni R,Arechavala A,Robles AM,Bianchi M

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：: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：: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：:Systemic cladosporiosis is described in 25 merino sheep from a flock consisting 250 animals. The fungal pneumonia appeared after an intensive antibiotic treatment, because of a respiratory system disorder. The pen of the flock was humid and crowded, and animals had signs of respiratory distress, coughing, fever and an...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Haligur M,Ozmen O,Dorrestein GM

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three new Uruguayan paracoccidioidomycosis human cases are presented. Two of them correspond to the disseminated form with metastatic lesions at the oral mucosa; the remaining one, with important pulmonary bilateral lesions corresponds to the pure chronic pulmonary form of the disease which is recognized by the first ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Asconeguy FR,Bonasse J,Calegari LF,Conti Díaz IA

更新日期：1982-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusarium spp. are recognized as the second most frequently filamentous fungi causing opportunistic infections and particularly important due to the increasing number of immunocompromised patients. F. keratoplasticum (a member of F. solani species complex) is one of the Fusarium species commonly associated with human i...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Chiewchanvit S,Chongkae S,Mahanupab P,Nosanchuk JD,Pornsuwan S,Vanittanakom N,Youngchim S

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodotorula species are increasingly being identified as a cause of fungal infection in the central nervous system, especially in patients with compromised immunity. The diagnosis could easily be missed due to low index of suspicion, as cryptococcus meningitis and cerebral toxoplasmosis are more common amongst immunoc...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Mohd Nor F,Tan LH,Na SL,Ng KP

更新日期：2015-08-01 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：: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：:The mycoflora of nine varieties of grain sorghum was determined by plating serial dilutions of ground samples on rose bengal-streptomycin agar. Seventeen species of fungi representing 10 genera were identified. Curvularia, Penicillium, Mucor, and Aspergillus were dominant genera. Extracts of P. herquei were highly tox...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Diener UL,Morgan-Jones G,Wagener RE,Davis ND

更新日期：1981-07-10 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：:The number of new fungal pathogens is increasing due to growing population of immunocompromised patients and advanced identification techniques. Fereydounia khargensis is a yeast and was first described in 2014 from environmental samples. As far as we know, this is the first report of human infections associated with ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Tap RM,Ramli NY,Sabaratnam P,Hashim R,Bakri AR,Bee LB,Ginsapu SJ,Ahmad R,Razak MF,Ahmad N

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maximum challenge exposure of Liposcelis bostrychophila to Beauveria bassiana, Paecilomyces fumosoroseus, Aspergillus parasiticus or Metarhizium anisopliae resulted in no more than 16% mortality. We investigated several of L. bostrychophila's cuticular lipids for possible contributions to its tolerance for entomopatho...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Lord JC,Howard RW

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-one strains of Fusarium verticillioides and F. proliferatum isolated from corn collected from four different geographic areas in Iran, namely Fars, Khuzestan, Kermanshah and Mazandaran (an endemic oesophageal cancer (OC) area) were evaluated for their ability to produce fumonisins B1 (FB1), B2 (FB2) and B3 (FB3)...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Ghiasian SA,Rezayat SM,Kord-Bacheh P,Maghsood AH,Yazdanpanah H,Shephard GS,van der Westhuizen L,Vismer HF,Marasas WF

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Vietnam is a tropical country so fungal diseases including dermatophytosis may be prevalent, but epidemiological profiles of agents responsible for the infection have rarely been reported. OBJECTIVE:To find out the distribution of dermatophytes among patients living in a central province of Vietnam. METH...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Do NA,Nguyen TD,Nguyen KL,Le TA

更新日期：2017-12-01 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：:Diaporthe helianthi is the causal agent of sunflower stem canker, a serious pathogen of sunflower in Europe but recorded sporadically in Italy. The genetic diversity of D. helianthi isolates from different geographic origins (Argentina, France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Romania) was investigated using IGS sequences. A 400 bp...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Pecchia S,Mercatelli E,Vannacci G

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal infection is a severe problem in children suffering from cancer. We report a case of a four-year-old girl who was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and multiple Aspergillus niger abscesses at the induction phase of the treatment. She was treated with granulocyte transfusions, liposomal amphotericin B ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Patiroglu T,Unal E,Karakukcu M,Ozdemir MA,Tucer B,Yikilmaz A,Deniz K

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A set of Diaporthe helianthi isolates collected in different geographic areas was studied in order to examine whether different genetic biotypes could be responsible for epidemiological differences shown by sunflower stem canker. D. helianthi causes serious losses in France and in former Yugoslavia, while the pathogen...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Vergara M,Cristani C,Regis C,Vannacci G

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00