Isolation of Histoplasma capsulatum from tissues of bats captured in the Aguas Buenas Caves, Aguas Buenos, Puerto Rico.

abstract：:The order Mucorales is an ancient group of fungi classified in the subphylum Mucoromycotina. Mucorales are mainly fast-growing saprotrophs that belong to the first colonizers of diverse organic materials and represent a permanent part of the human environment. Several species are able to cause human infections (mucorm...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Walther G,Wagner L,Kurzai O

更新日期：2020-10-01 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 effect of increased temperature during transportation of clinical dermatophyte specimens was investigated. Recovery rates from untransported specimens cultured at dermatologists' offices and from duplicate transported specimens were compared. During the months of hot weather specimens could be exposed intermittent...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Sinski JT,Moore TM,Kelly LM

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the year of 1994, 417 samples of agricultural commodities, comprising: maize, compound animal feeds, oil seeds, soya bean, fish meal and forage were examined for fungi and over 20 mycotoxins using a multi-screen augmented with individual assays. Trichothecenes had the highest incidence of over 19% in all sample...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Dutton MF,Kinsey A

更新日期：1995-07-01 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：:Hylastes ater and Hylurgus ligniperda are introduced pests of re-established Pinus radiata in New Zealand. Both species breed under the bark of stumps in recently harvested areas. Adult maturation feeding on pine seedlings planted in adjacent areas can significantly impact seedling growth, and in severe cases seedling...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Brownbridge M,Reay SD,Cummings NJ

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was developed for the xanthone dimer secalonic acid D. The immunogen and enzyme marker were prepared by direct reaction of secalonic acid D with bovine serum albumin and horseradish peroxidase, respectively. The resultant conjugates were characterized by UV/VIS spectra a...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Neucere JN

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：: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：:Organ transplant recipients (OTR) are at higher risk of developing life-threatening infections. In this study, we tested 527 Candida isolates obtained from the oral and genital mucosa from OTR and healthy controls in order to monitor antifungal susceptibility patterns in this particular risk group. Testing was carried...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Geusau A,Antoniewicz L,Poitschek C,Presterl E,Willinger B

更新日期：2014-04-01 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：:Three hundred and forty-eight Vencob broiler chickens were fed diets containing Penicillium griseofulvum rice culture material with 0, 12.5, 25 and 50 ppm of the mycotoxin cyclopiazonic acid (CPA) for 28 days. Serum samples were collected from 9 birds in each group at weekly intervals to study the effect of sublethal ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Balachandran C,Parthasarathy KR

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterization of 62 isolates belonging to the genus Nocardia and related bacteria was obtained by using the API ZYM system. The difference in enzymatic profile should allow a relatively efficient, low-cost means to identify aerobic actinomycetes of clinical significance. ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Boiron P,Provost F

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scedosporium apiospermum is an ubiquitous fungus responsible for various infections in immunocompromised and immunocompetent patients. Ear infections are infrequent. We report an exceptional case of S. apiospermum external otitis complicated by temporomandibular joint arthritis. After 6 months of antibiotherapy, diagn...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Huguenin A,Noel V,Rogez A,Chemla C,Villena I,Toubas D

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：: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：:A stainless steel paper-embedded biofilm reactor (PEBR) was developed for Candida spp. growth, permitting confluent distribution of nutrients by capillary diffusion through ordinary laboratory filter paper. Antibiogram disks were distributed along the filter paper rim, and the PEBR received 0.1 or 0.01 % crystal viole...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Selow ML,Rymovicz AU,Ribas CR,Saad RS,Rosa RT,Rosa EA

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Penicillium genera, encompassing about 225 different species of fungi, are naturally present in the environment. These genera are poorly linked to human disease, except for Penicillium marneffei causing septicemia in immunocompromised hosts. Thus, Penicillium species recovered from respiratory tract samples are of...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Radulesco T,Varoquaux A,Ranque S,Dessi P,Michel J,Cassagne C

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida dubliniensis, yeast closely related to Candida albicans, is a new pathogen associated mainly with infections of immunocompromised hosts. In this study, we report the first isolation of three isolates of C. dubliniensis in Slovakia. The first selection of both C. albicans and C. dubliniensis from the other Cand...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Melkusovà S,Lisalovà M,Pavlìk P,Bujdàkovà H

更新日期：2005-04-01 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：INTRODUCTION:Invasive fungal disease (IFD) remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients. METHODS:Examination of 1,3-β-D-glucan (BDG) for IFD and as outcome parameter in immunocompromised critically ill patients with septic shock. RESULTS:Thirty-two (69 %) out of 46 included patien...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Lahmer T,Held J,Rasch S,Schnappauf C,Beitz A,Schmid RM,Huber W

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Testing for Candida albicans germ-tube antibody IFA IgG assay (CAGTA) is used to detect invasive candidiasis infection. However, most suitable assays lack automation and rapid single-sample testing. The CAGTA assay was adapted in an automatic monotest system (invasive candidiasis [CAGTA] VirClia® IgG monotest (VirClia...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Parra-Sánchez M,Zakariya-Yousef Breval I,Castro Méndez C,García-Rey S,Loza Vazquez A,Úbeda Iglesias A,Macías Guerrero D,Romero Mejías A,León Gil C,Martín-Mazuelos E,CAVA Trem Study Group.

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although abdominal cryptococcomas and visceral cryptococcal lymphadenitis as part of disseminated fungal infection have been reported mostly in HIV-infected patients, localized intra-abdominal involvement due to Cryptococcus gattii has not been previously described in non-HIV-infected patients. In general, a smaller p...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Araújo BS,Bay M,Reichert R,Goldani LZ

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors perfected, for standardization purposes, a microautomated system (Dynatech MIC 2000 Inoculator) to obtain the accurate quantitative results, i.e., determination of minimum inhibitory (MIC) and fungicidal (MFC) concentrations, avoiding the work and time consuming procedure of the classic broth dilution meth...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Polonelli L,Morace G

更新日期：1984-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to detect antibodies against Paracoccidioides brasiliensis in dogs seropositive and seronegative for leishmaniasis. Sera from 836 dogs (449 positive and 387 negative to leishmaniasis) were analysed by ELISA and the immunodiffusion test using gp43 and exoantigen, respectively. The analysis of ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Silveira LH,Domingos IH,Kouchi K,Itano EN,Silva EA,Landgraf VO,Werneck SM,Camargo ZP,Ono MA

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Life-threatening disseminated infection with Trichosporon beigelii (trichosporonosis) is a rare mycosis most commonly seen in patients with hematologic malignancies made neutropenic by cytotoxic therapy. This infection is usually resistant to conventional antifungal therapies. Poor correlation between therapeutic outc...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Hospenthal D,Belay T,Lappin P,Rogers A,Kennedy M

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary aspergilloma is by no means uncommon in Malaysia. The lack of documentation of its occurrence in Malaysia, is mainly due to the lack of clinical awareness, and the absence of facilities for the proper diagnosis of the infection. ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Arianayagam S,Jayalakshmi P,Tuck Soon SH

更新日期：1986-03-01 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：: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：:Soils from 100 irrigated fields (95 under vegetables, 5 under citrus) in different geographical locations in the West Bank (Palestinian Autonomous Territory) were surveyed for hymexazol-insensitive (HIS) Pythium species using the surface soil dilution plate (SSDP) method with the VP3 medium amended with 50 mg/L hymexa...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Ali-Shtayeh M,Salah AM,Jamous RM

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00