Case reports. Disseminated cryptococcoses without cryptococcal antigen detection.

abstract：:Oral terbinafine (Lamisil, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland) is an effective therapy for fungal infections of the skin and nails. A post-marketing surveillance study was undertaken to evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of oral terbinafine. A total of 454 patients with clinically and mycologically confirme...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Binder M,Nell G

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case record of patients with kerion Celsi observed in the Clinic of Dermatology, University of Cagliari (Italy) from 1981 to 1995. Altogether, 31 children (18 male and 13 female) with an age range of 40 days to 12 years were studied. In all cases the lesions were confined to the scalp. In 10 cases the dis...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Aste N,Pau M,Biggio P

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preservation under sterilized paraffin oil is a suitable method for the long-time maintenance of fungus strains in a medical-mycological laboratory. 140 strains of dermatophytes and moulds were checked for their viability by subculturing them after 2-15 year-storage under paraffin oil without changing the medium in th...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Schönborn C

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pulmonary cryptococcosis (PC) is not considered an rare, opportunistic infection anymore. The immunocompetent population accounts for an increasing proportion of the morbidity. OBJECTIVE:This study investigated the clinical characteristics of PC patients spanning 20 years, in a referral centre of China. PA...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Hou X,Kou L,Han X,Zhu R,Song L,Liu T

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interdigital ulcer is an exceptionally rare condition while erosio interdigitalis blastomycetica is common for candidiasis. Four Chinese patients with Candida interdigital ulcers were reported. The exudates were examined directly and cultured for fungi. Skin biopsies were stained with haematoxylin-eosin and periodic a...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Luo DQ,Yang W,Wu LC,Liu JH,Chen WN

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight cases of imported mycetomata in The Netherlands are reviewed. Seven of these were cultured; only one isolate, Actinomadura madurae, belonged to a species commonly known as an agent of mycetoma. The remaining strains either belonged to very rare species, such as Phialophora cyanescens, or could not be identified ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： de Hoog GS,Buiting A,Tan CS,Stroebel AB,Ketterings C,de Boer EJ,Naafs B,Brimicombe R,Nohlmans-Paulssen MK,Fabius GT

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mycological survey was conducted on non-neutropenic patients in three distinct intensive care units in two hospitals in Marseille (France) from November 1993 to November 1995. Candida albicans positive cultures from 62 patients were included in this study. Every first isolate of each patient was typed by multilocus ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Arnavielhe S,De Meeüs T,Blancard A,Mallié M,Renaud F,Bastide JM

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral aspergillosis usually occurs in severely immunocompromized hosts, is difficult to diagnose, and has a poor prognosis. After 14 months of chronic meningitis, ventriculitis, choroid plexitis, and lumbar arachnoiditis, which was complicated by acute hydrocephalus, Aspergillus, suspected to be from the candidus g...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Moling O,Lass-Floerl C,Verweij PE,Porte M,Boiron P,Prugger M,Gebert U,Corradini R,Vedovelli C,Rimenti G,Mian P

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:It was shown previously that dermatophytes can markedly be inhibited by a photochemical treatment with curcumin. This kind of photo-inactivation needs to be improved, however, because curcumin is poorly water-soluble. Therefore, a new water-soluble γ-cyclodextrin formulation of curcuminoids was tested for ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Brasch J,Beck-Jendroschek V,Walther G,Rubbel D

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, 36 extracts derived from 29 plant species selected using an ethnobotanical approach were tested for antifungal activity against a taxonomically diverse group of 13 human pathogenic fungi. We compared the inhibitory characteristics of these plant extracts with those of the commonly used antifungals, amph...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Ficker CE,Arnason JT,Vindas PS,Alvarez LP,Akpagana K,Gbéassor M,De Souza C,Smith ML

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytostatic chemotherapy of hematological malignancies if often complicated by neutropenia, which increases the risk of infections, especially if the neutrophil count is below 500/ml. Frequently, fever is the first and in most patients the only sign of an infection. Unexplained fever is defined as follows: temperature ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Link H

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichophyton raubitschekii is a rare dermatophyte which belongs to the Trichophyton rubrum species complex. Since 1981, only a few cases of dermatophytosis due to this anthropophilic causative agent were published. In this paper the authors report the first cases of Tinea corporis caused by Trichophyton raubitschekii ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Tietz HJ,Hopp M,Gräser Y

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast cultures of Histoplasma capsulatum var. duboisii and H. capsulatum var. capsulatum in collagen containing defined, semi-defined and complex media produced extracellular collagenolytic proteinases, assayed using 4-phenylazo-benzyloxycarbonyl-L-propyl-L-leucyl- glycyl-L-propyl-D-arginine, a specific collagenase su...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Okeke CN,Müller J

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although conventional identification of pathogenic fungi is based on the combination of tests evaluating their morphological and biochemical characteristics, they can fail to identify the less common species or the differentiation of closely related species. In addition these tests are time consuming, labour-intensive...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Kiraz N,Oz Y,Aslan H,Erturan Z,Ener B,Akdagli SA,Muslumanoglu H,Cetinkaya Z

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenicity of fungi is connected with their ability to easily penetrate the host tissues, survive in the infected host organism and use the elements of the host tissues as nutrients. Hence, the co-occurrence of pathogenic properties with the high enzymatic activity, which is manifested through the production of var...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Ciebiada-Adamiec A,Małafiej E,Ciebiada I

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The standard methods for yeast susceptibility testing require 24-48 h of incubation. As there has been an increase in incidence of non-albicans Candida species, the clinician is very often wary of initiating therapy with fluconazole until a final susceptibility report is generated, especially when treating very sick p...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Rudensky B,Broide E,Berko N,Wiener-Well Y,Yinnon AM,Raveh D

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of Candida dubliniensis in oropharyngeal swabs of 132 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive and 89 HIV-negative patients was determined. The samples were plated onto CHROMagar Candida medium and 82 strains, presumptively identified as C. albicans or C. dubliniensis, were further investigated (tempe...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Faggi E,Pini G,Campisi E,Martinelli C,Difonzo E

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcus gattii species complex has evolved as a pathogen in the last two decades causing infection among both immunocompetent and immunocompromised hosts. We aimed to analyse the clinical features of CNS infection caused by C. gattii sensu lato, molecular and antifungal susceptibility profile of this pathogen. Ca...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Lahiri Mukhopadhyay S,Bahubali VH,Manjunath N,Swaminathan A,Maji S,Palaniappan M,Parthasarathy S,Chandrashekar N

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Airborne invasive fungal infections in various risk groups of people suffering from immunodeficiencies are an increasing problem for modern medicine. Because of the acute and rapid course of invasive infections, prevention is of principal significance. Such prevention mainly concerns the control of fungal spores in in...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Staib F

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although human immundeficiency virus (HIV) infection is endemic in Southeast Asia, data on oral mycotic flora in this disease in Asians are sparse. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of Candida species in HIV-infected Cambodians with oral candidosis, unexposed (group 1) and exposed to antimycotics (...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Schmidt-Westhausen AM,Bendick C,Reichart PA,Samaranayake LP

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen essential oils were screened in vitro for their fungitoxicity against the two dermatophytes Trichophyton rubrum and Microsporum gypseum. Five oils (from Artemisia nelagrica, Caesulia axillaris, Chenopodium ambrosioides, Cymbopogon citratus and Mentha arvensis) showed strong activity and were assessed for their...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Kishore N,Mishra AK,Chansouria JP

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From stratum corneum samples of a palmar eczema, a fungus was isolated that developed white colonies with a yellowish dark reverse, suggestive of dermatophytes. The isolate produced numerous chlamydospores and sparse aleuroconidia, was resistant to cycloheximide, grew well on human stratum corneum samples and was posi...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Brasch J,Beck-Jendroscheck V,Voss K,Yurkov A,Stchigel AM,Gräser Y

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The secreted aspartyl proteinases (Saps) of Candida albicans have been implicated as immunodominant antigens and virulence factors associated with adherence and tissue invasion. A hybrid phage displaying the Sap epitope VKYTS was constructed by cloning the corresponding DNA fragments into the pfd88 vector. Similar to ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Yang Q,Su QP,Wang GY,Wen DZ,Zhang YH,Bao HZ,Wang L

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate caspofungin in high-risk invasive aspergillosis (IA) patient, a retrospective review of patient characteristics, antifungal therapies and clinical outcomes on hospitalised patients at sites in Russia, Canada, Germany, and Thailand was performed. Fifty-five patients were included, six with proven and 49 wit...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Wisniewski T,Klimko N,Laverdiere M,Kiertiburanakul S,Kliasova G,Trenschel R,Kumar RN

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumocystosis (PCP) mortality in the U.S. has received less attention in recent years. This study describes recent trends in mortality and the estimated burden of PCP in the U.S., using the national multiple cause of death data during 1999-2014. PCP mortality rates were calculated for age, sex, race and year. Demogra...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Wickramasekaran RN,Jewell MP,Sorvillo F,Kuo T

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to compare phospholipase production between fluconazole-resistant and fluconazole-susceptible strains of Candida albicans in order to explore the relationship between resistance to antifungal drugs and virulence of C. albicans. Fifteen each of fluconazole-resistant (MIC ≥ 64 μg ml(-1)) ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Ying S,Chunyang L

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Itraconazole is a lipophilic triazole antifungal with a broad spectrum of activity. Most of the important fungal pathogens respond to itraconazole concentrations of 100 ng/ml. Therefore, itraconazole is suitable for treatment of a variety of systemic mycoses, as aspergillosis, cryptococcosis, candidosis as well as non...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Cauwenbergh G

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of four media or media combinations on the growth and the in vitro susceptibility to amphotericin B, 5-fluorocytosine, fluconazole and itraconazole of 51 isolates of Cr. neoformans was studied. The drug concentration producing a 50% decrease in OD405 (IC50) was determined in microtiter format. The following...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： St-Germain G,Dion C

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of septic arthritis of multiple joints in an 18-year-old male caused by Aspergillus fumigatus. His initial presentation was of low-grade fever followed by involvement of both knee and ankle joints. Later, there was also involvement of metacarpophalangeal joints. Diagnosis was based on biopsy and cultu...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Mekan SF,Saeed O,Khan JA

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 36-year-old HIV-infected male patient presented with relapsing fever episodes to 39 degrees C, night sweats and weight loss. Computerized tomography of the abdomen showed enlarged multiple lymph nodes. After surgical resection of multiple lymph nodes, disseminated infection with Histoplasma capsulatum was diagnosed....

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Rieg GK,Shah PM,Helm EB,Just-Nübling G

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00