Scutular tinea of the scrotum: report of two cases.

abstract：:Cryptococcus neoformans is an encapsulated yeast-like fungus that causes life-threatening infections, particularly in immunocompromised patients. The formation of brown pigment on many media described in the literature, such as that in Niger seed (Guizotia abyssinica) agar, has been used to identify C. neoformans. The...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Mseddi F,Sellami A,Sellami H,Cheikhrouhou F,Makni F,Ayadi A

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of onychomycosis differs according to geographic area and over time and is influenced by several factors. The epidemiology of onychomycosis in Italy is still unclear. To evaluate the prevalence of onychomycosis in a representative sample of the Italian population a group of Dermatologists and General Pr...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Papini M,Piraccini BM,Difonzo E,Brunoro A

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：:Using intraperitoneal (i. p.) infection of mice with Candida albicans we determined which parameters might be useful for characterization of virulence in this model. Upon i. p. infection of mice with two reference strains striking differences in lethality were detected. These differences in virulence corresponded with...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Kretschmar M,Bertsch T,Göller M,Schaller M,Hof H,Nichterlein T

更新日期：1999-12-01 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：:Rhinocerebral mucormycosis is a fulminant fungal infection of the nose and paranasal sinuses in immunocompromised patients. But mucormycosis following dental manipulation in immunocompetent patients leading to orbital involvement is rare. The objective of this study was to highlight the variable presentations of mucor...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Chopra H,Dua K,Bhatia S,Dua N,Mittal V

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Invasive fungal disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in children with cancer and high-risk febrile neutropenia (HRFN). Repeated serum galactomannan (sGM) measurements have been described as an effective tool to guide therapy in adults under suspicion of invasive aspergillosis. However, the uti...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Delgado-Araneda M,Valenzuela R,de la Maza V,Rabello M,Álvarez AM,Contardo V,Zubieta M,Gutierrez V,Claverie X,Torres JP,Salgado C,Tordecilla J,Varas M,Avilés CL,Venegas M,Villarroel M,Santolaya ME

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assays, which operate at a single temperature and require no postreaction processing, have been described for rapid species-specific detection of numerous fungi. The technology has much less commonly been applied to identification of other key genetic traits such...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： King KM,Hawkins NJ,Atkins S,Dyer PS,West JS,Fraaije BA

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutaneous infections by Zygomycetes may have underestimated clinical consequences. Apophysomyces elegans is a Zygomycete that rarely causes disease in humans. However, it has been reported with increasing frequency in warm climate zones as a result of infection in healthy patients after injury to the cutaneous barrier...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Saravia-Flores M,Guaran DM,Argueta V

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：:Pityriasis versicolor (p.v.) is a superficial mycosis occurring frequently on the face. Epidemiological and clinical data regarding cases of p.v. on the face over a period of 11 years are discussed and some explanation given for conditions which favour facial involvement. This study underlines that face lesions of p.v...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Terragni L,Lasagni A,Oriani A

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemiology of two cases of pseudallescheriasis in organ transplant patients are described and the disease in that population is reviewed. Disseminated hospital-acquired infection occurred in a liver transplant recipient and was fatal despite therapy with miconazole. A heart transplant recipient developed localiz...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Patterson TF,Andriole VT,Zervos MJ,Therasse D,Kauffman CA

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro hair perforation test as described by Ajello and George, was applied to eight species of Chrysosporium and one species each of Microsporum and Trichophyton. Six of them were found to perforate hair while four were negative. Chr. keratinophilum, M. gypseum and Tr. vanbreuseghemii were able to perforate and...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Bahuguna S,Kushwaha RK

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The newly developed AspID PCR assay for detection of Aspergillus spp. was evaluated with an interlaboratory quality control programme panel and human bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) samples. With the quality control programme, 8 out of 9 panel members were correctly identified. With the clinical study, 36 BALF sam...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Prattes J,Hoenigl M,Zinke SE,Heldt S,Eigl S,Johnson GL,Bustin S,Stelzl E,Kessler HH

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Invasive mould infections (IMIs) are very rare in patients with lymphoid malignancies. However, IMIs, mostly due to Aspergillus species, have been increasingly reported in such patients receiving ibrutinib (IBR). There is paucity of information regarding non-Aspergillus invasive mould infections (NAIMIs) in ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Anastasopoulou A,DiPippo AJ,Kontoyiannis DP

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven clinical and veterinary strains of filamentous Basidiomycetes were compared with 15 reference strains representing the orders Aphyllophorales and Agaricales. The methods used were restriction analysis of small subunit (18S) (SSU) rDNA and internal transcribed spacers (ITS) 1 and 2 and variable domain 9 (V9)-ITS...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： de Hoog GS,Gerrits van den Ende AH

更新日期：1998-05-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) due to viral infection are at risk for secondary complications like invasive aspergillosis. Our study evaluates coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) associated invasive aspergillosis at a single centre in Cologne, Germany. METHODS:A retrospective chart r...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Koehler P,Cornely OA,Böttiger BW,Dusse F,Eichenauer DA,Fuchs F,Hallek M,Jung N,Klein F,Persigehl T,Rybniker J,Kochanek M,Böll B,Shimabukuro-Vornhagen A

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of cutaneous phaeohyphomycosis caused by Cladosporium cladosporioides in a 50-year-old housewife is described. The clinical presentation was an ecthyma-like crusted lesion on the back of her left hand. Scanning electron microscopy of the culture showed the conidiophores and the limoniform or ellipsoidal conidia...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Duquia RP,de Almeida HL Jr,Vettorato G,Rocha NM,de Castro LA

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucor is a fungus, which give rise to opportunistic infection in immunocompromised patients. We described a 55-year-old immunocompetent woman with cutaneous mucormycosis after scorpion sting. Mucormycosis may happen in patients with intact immunity and is not allocated only to patients with immune deficiency. ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Pourahmad M,Sepidkar A,Farokhnia MH,Tadayon SM,Salehi H,Zabetian H

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive candidiasis is a common nosocomial infection among critically ill patients, constitutes an important cause of sepsis, and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) has created evidence-based guidelines for the management of invasive candidiasis. ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Hollenbach E

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last decade cryptococcoses were most frequently diagnosed in AIDS patients, where serologically high amounts of glucoronoxylomannan (GXM) were detectable. Disseminated cryptococcoses without cryptococcal antigen detection is unusual. Between August and October 1998 disseminated cryptococcoses were diagnosed...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Tintelnot K,Adler S,Bergmann F,Schönherr K,Seibold M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superficial fungal infections are expected to be more prevalent in renal transplant recipients because of graft-preserving immunosuppressive therapy. Here we report the case of a 45-year-old patient with widespread erosive tinea corporis transmitted by domestic animals. Sequencing of the internal transcribed spacer re...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Budihardja D,Freund V,Mayser P

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichophyton rubrum, T. mentagrophytes, T. verrucosum, Microsporum canis, M. gypseum and Epidermophyton flocoosum represent the cause of human dermatomycoses isolated most often at the University Hospital of Dermatology in Graz, Austria, between 1991 and 1998. So far, identification was mainly based on the cultivation...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Blanz P,Buzina W,Ginter G,Gräser Y

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Posaconazole represents an antifungal extended-spectrum triazole whose absolute bioavailability following oral drug administration is considerably variable. Special conditions including increased gastric pH values, malabsorption syndrome, diarrhoea, intake on an empty stomach and some concomitantly administered potent...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Lipp HP

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of onychomycosis with nail dystrophy due to Microsporum gypseum in a healthy 35-year-old woman is described. The infection had a 2-year history, occurring in the site of a nail trauma sustained in a fall from a horse. Diagnosis was based on mycological examination (direct microscope observation and culture). Cl...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Romano C,Ghilardi A,Fimiani M

更新日期：2006-07-01 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：:Fungi have been used for a long time in industrial production. Recent developments in biotechnology have lead to an increased awareness of possible health hazards connected with the use of microorganisms in industries. In order to avoid potential risks by appropriate protective measures it is necessary to assess the m...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Meinhof W,Lüders A,Finkeldey E,Balter A

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of superficial skin mycoses was carried out among miners and office workers employed in different establishments in Jos, Nigeria. Mycotic infection was demonstrable by microscopy and culture in 45 (10.4%) subjects: 20 males and 25 females. Malassezia furfur was the predominant aetiological agent, followed by ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Ayanbimpe GH,Bello CS,Gugnani HC

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the pharmacokinetics and efficacy of posaconazole (PSC) in combination with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) in a neutropaenic murine model of disseminated zygomycosis (mucormycosis) due to Rhizopus microsporus. Male BALB/c mice were rendered neutropaenic with cycloph...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Saoulidis S,Simitsopoulou M,Dalakiouridou M,Walsh TJ,Wheat LJ,Papaioannidou P,Roilides E

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00