Mycotic keratitis: profile of Fusarium species and their mycotoxins.

abstract：:Outbreaks of tinea capitis (TC) can be a source of medical and economic burden for healthcare systems; Griseofulvin and terbinafine are considered to be effective first-line treatments for TC. In order to compare the efficacy of griseofulvin and terbinafine for the treatment of TC in a paediatric population of African...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Bar J,Samuelov L,Sprecher E,Mashiah J

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A double-blind trial was undertaken in Karonga District, Northern Malawi comparing Whitfield's cream (3% salicylic acid and 6% benzoylic acid) and clotrimazole cream in the treatment of dermatophyte infections of the skin. To date, 138 patients have been reviewed; 65 of these patients received Whitfield's cream and 73...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Pönnighaus JM,Gooskens V,Clayton Y,Mkandawire P,Sterne J

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of tinea incognito (TI) appears to have increased over recent years, although no large series of cases has been reported in children. The aim of this study was to analyse the main epidemiological, clinical and microbiological characteristics of TI diagnosed in children in comparison with other tineas. We...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： del Boz J,Crespo V,Rivas-Ruiz F,de Troya M

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusarium species have emerged as an important human pathogen in skin disease, onychomycosis, keratitis and invasive disease. Onychomycosis caused by Fusarium spp. The infection has been increasingly described in the immunocompetent and immunosuppressed hosts. Considering onychomycosis is a difficult to treat infection...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Rosa PD,Heidrich D,Corrêa C,Scroferneker ML,Vettorato G,Fuentefria AM,Goldani LZ

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perforative eye injuries in two patients were complicated by fulminant endophthalmitis. In both patients the cornea was free of micro-organisms. Vitrectomy of the posterior pars plana was performed and the contents of the vitreous body were examined mycologically and bacteriologically. Fusarium moniliforme var. subglu...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Srdić N,Radulović S,Nonković Z,Velimirović S,Cvetković L,Vico I

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cunninghamella bertholletiae, a rare causative agent of mycosis among immunocompromised patients has been reported with increased frequency from western countries in recent years. We report a case of C. bertholletiae pulmonary infection in a 42-year-old male patient who developed graft-vs.-host disease following bone ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Sivakumar S,Mathews MS,George B

更新日期：2005-09-01 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：:Mucormycosis, previously termed as zygomycosis, is caused by fungi belonging to the order Mucorales and is a very severe disease in immunocompromised patients with an often unfavourable outcome. Given the high morbidity and mortality of mucormycosis, establishing a timely diagnosis followed by immediate treatment is o...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Tacke D,Koehler P,Markiefka B,Cornely OA

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Is non-response to maintenance treatment for recurrent vulvovaginal candidosis (RCVV) related to the impaired glucose metabolism? In the ReCiDiF trial, women with RCVV were given a degressive regimen with fluconazole according to their clinical, microscopic and mycologic response. Data obtained from optimal, suboptima...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Grinceviciene S,Bellen G,Ruban K,Donders G

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphotericin formulations, indicated for invasive fungal infections (IFIs), vary in effectiveness, safety and costs. In Brazil, only the conventional formulation is provided by the Public Health System. The aim of this study was to perform a cost-effectiveness analysis comparing conventional amphotericin B (CAB), lipo...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Borba HHL,Steimbach LM,Riveros BS,Tonin FS,Ferreira VL,Bagatim BAQ,Balan G,Pontarolo R,Wiens A

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The annual incidence of cryptococcosis during 1981-2000 was determined in subscribers of a large integrated health care program in Northern California and in those among them who were HIV positive. The incidence of cryptococcosis had been measured in this setting in the previous decade. The 20-year incidence per milli...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Friedman GD,Jeffrey Fessel W,Udaltsova NV,Hurley LB

更新日期：2005-03-01 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：: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：:An early diagnosis of an invasive fungal infection is essential for the initiation of a specific antifungal therapy and to avoid unnecessary discontinuation of a baseline therapy for haematological or oncological diseases. A real-time PCR assay for the detection and strain identification of Aspergillus species from cu...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Fricke S,Fricke C,Oelkrug C,Blatz R,Schönfelder U,Niederwieser D,Hilger N,Ruhnke M,Rodloff AC

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive aspergillosis predominantly occurs in patients with impaired host defence and is often resistant to different therapeutically strategies. However, mortality significantly increases if the central nervous system is affected. In this report, we describe a case of successful treatment of invasive aspergillosis w...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Kaffarnik M,Utzolino S,Blaich A,Hopt UT

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mycetoma is a pathological process in which fungal or actinomycotic agents of exogenous origin produce grains. In the absence of data on the global burden, it is important to map mycetoma cases, which are useful to implement control strategies. OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to map mycetoma cases...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Badiane AS,Ndiaye M,Diongue K,Diallo MA,Seck MC,Ndiaye D

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To describe the epidemiology of invasive Candida infection in a tertiary care paediatric hospital. Prospective single-centre survey on all Candida strains isolated from normally sterile fluids and urines in the period 2005-2015 . A total of 299 ICI were documented in 262 patients. Urinary tract infection represented t...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Mesini A,Bandettini R,Caviglia I,Fioredda F,Amoroso L,Faraci M,Mattioli G,Piaggio G,Risso FM,Moscatelli A,Loy A,Castagnola E

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-four patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection were studied to assess the load of oral carriage of Candida spp. The mean oral Candida carriage density (30,305.93 +/- 56,643.93 CFU ml(-1)) in HIV patients was significantly higher than that seen in the control population (93.48 +/- 358.48 CFU ml(-...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Girish Kumar CP,Menon T,Rajasekaran S,Sekar B,Prabu D

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:We report a case of mixed intranasal infection caused by Fusarium solani and a zygomycete, with probable sinus and brain involvement. The patient had chronic myelogenous leukaemia and was treated with chemotherapy. Diagnosis of the infection was established by direct examination of the intranasal eschar and histopatho...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Lopes JO,de Mello ES,Klock C

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an 84-year-old man cryptococcosis with a pronounced osteomyelitic course (involvement of a rib, two thoracic vertebrae, the sacrum and a femur) was diagnosed histologically post mortem, thus directing attention to cryptococcosis in advanced age. The presumptive chronic course of the Cryptococcus neoformans (Cr. n.)...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Kromminga R,Staib F,Thalmann U,Jautzke G,Seibold M,Hochrein H,Witt H,Bürger H

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Candidaemia in the elderly has not been extensively investigated. OBJECTIVES:We compared the management of candidaemia in the elderly patients (age ≥65 years) and the very elderly subgroup of patients (age ≥75 years) with those belonging to the younger group (age <65 years) using the European Confederation ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Bal AM,Palchaudhuri M

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred and seventy isolates of Trichophyton rubrum from 182 patients were subjected to susceptibility testing with griseofulvin according to Granade & Artis. A slight modification of the method concerning homogenization procedures gave better growth of controls in our investigation. In 245 cases an MIC could be d...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Scholz R,Meinhof W

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the different physical-chemical conditions of the therapeutical azoles it is necessary to choose an adequate testing procedure. In the group of azoles caused by its hydrophilia fluconazole susceptibility testing can be handled easily. However it is not possible to take the same test conditions for itraconazole ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Tintelnot K,Seibold M

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pichia anomala is an emerging yeast causing serious nosocomial infections in newborn and immunocompromised children. We describe nosocomial port catheter infection due to P. anomala in three children who were receiving cancer chemotherapy, bloodstream infection in a preterm infant and in an infant with severe combined...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Bakir M,Cerikcioğlu N,Tirtir A,Berrak S,Ozek E,Canpolat C

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adherence of Candida has been implicated as the first step in the pathogenesis of oral candidosis, and germ tube formation, a contributory attribute. While chlorhexidine gluconate is by far the most common antiseptic mouthwash prescribed in dentistry, its intraoral concentration fluctuates considerably because of the ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Ellepola AN

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：:Patients with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) after cytotoxic chemotherapy or haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) are at risk for life-threatening invasive fungal disease (IFD). The aim was to evaluate the characteristics, antifungal therapy and outcome of adult patients with ALL after chemotherapy or ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Kiehl MG,Egerer G,Engelhardt M,Gross B

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tinea faciei is an uncommon dermatophytosis affecting the glabrous skin of the face. Between 1988 and 2007 at the Dermatology Department of Cagliari University, 107 cases of tinea faciei have been diagnosed, involving 72 females and 35 males, aged 2-72 years. Incidence peaks were observed between 6 and 15 years (48.59...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Nicola A,Laura A,Natalia A,Monica P

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The localisation of a dermatophytosis on the face is rare. Differential diagnoses include a broad range of dermatological disorders, e. g. contact dermatitis, psoriasis vulgaris, seborrhoeic dermatitis, demodicosis, and polymorphic photo eruptions. Two patients suffering from tinea faciei incognito caused by Trichophy...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Nenoff P,Mügge C,Herrmann J,Keller U

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00