Successful multimodal therapy of invasive pulmonary and central nervous system aspergillosis in a neutropenic surgical patient: case report and review of the literature.

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：:This is an observational-retrospective study comparing the real-world outcomes associated with posaconazole vs itraconazole as prophylaxis treatments. Two hundred and ninety-three patient admissions attributable to 174 patients were included in the study. Patients were treated with itraconazole (n = 114 admissions; 39...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Tormo M,Pérez-Martínez A,Calabuig M,Hernández-Boluda JC,Amat P,Navarro D,Solano C

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to determine zinc, copper and iron levels, erythrocyte oxidant/antioxidant status, vitamin C and β-carotene in dogs with dermatophytosis. A total of 23 dogs with clinically established diagnosis of dermatophytosis by trichogram and positive fungal culture and six dogs as control were included ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Beigh SA,Soodan JS,Singh R,Khan AM,Dar MA

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of Candida species with and without denture-related stomatitis were evaluated in 167 Jordanian patients. The study revealed that 47 (28%) of the patients with denture-related stomatitis were colonized with Candida species (clinical group). Candida albicans was responsible for most cases of denture-relat...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Dar-Odeh NS,Shehabi AA

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different commercial enzyme-linked immunsorbent assays (ELISA) were evaluated in a preliminary study for diagnosis of systemic candidosis: Biomerica and Virotech GmbH, which allowed immunoglobulin G detection, and Platelia, which associated total antibody to antigen detection. They were tested with a home-made ELISA a...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Persat F,Topenot R,Piens MA,Thiebaut A,Dannaoui E,Picot S

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paracoccidioides brasiliensis is a thermally dimorphic fungus agent of paracoccidioidomycosis, a deep-seated systemic infection of humans with high prevalence in Latin America. Until now no vaccine has been reported. Ionizing radiation can be used to attenuate pathogens for vaccine development and we have successfully...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Demicheli MC,Goes AM,de Andrade AS

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an open study 31 patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation for various haematological diseases received fluconazole as prophylaxis or treatment of fungal infections. In 26 of these patients an antecedent oral prophylaxis with polyene antimycotics had failed to prevent infections with Candida species. Five of ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Quabeck K,Müller KD,Beelen DW,Dermoumi H,Kölbel M,Kraft J,Schaefer UW

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Screening of 217 soil samples of different habitats, such as PG study centre, garden, farmhouse, nursery, roadside, hostel, animal habitat, bird habitat, marriage garden, temple, vegetable market and house dust, was carried out for the presence of dermatophytes and related fungi in relation to soil pH. A total of 461 ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Jain N,Sharma M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of cerebral mucormycosis in a 28-year-old male who was affected by chronic myeloid leukaemia and underwent allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. Nine months post-transplantation, he was admitted to the hospital with fever, bilateral eyelid oedema and neutropenia. X-ray analysis showed numerous areas...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Cavrini F,Stanzani M,Liguori G,Sambri V

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty soil samples from different desert localities in Kuwait were surveyed for keratinophilic and geophilic dermatophytic fungi. Sixteen species classified in 9 genera were recovered on wool baits. Chrysosporium species were the most common fungi: Chr. tropicum (60%), Chr. pannicola (32.5%), Chr. queenslandicum (27.5...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： al-Musallam AA

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A biofilm composed of various microorganisms including Candida is found on denture surfaces and is likely to be involved in the etiology of denture-induced stomatitis. The purpose of this study was to examine the role of hydrophobic interactions in candidal adherence to acrylic surfaces, particularly that of the hypha...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Yoshijima Y,Murakami K,Kayama S,Liu D,Hirota K,Ichikawa T,Miyake Y

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For anthropophilic tinea capitis (TC), household spread and asymptomatic scalp carriage (ASC) is considered an important route of transmission and incomplete clearance. To investigate ASC in household contacts of patients diagnosed with TC in a tertiary hospital in Athens, Greece, we retrospectively reviewed the medic...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Dessinioti C,Papadogeorgaki E,Athanasopoulou V,Antoniou C,Stratigos AJ

更新日期：2014-06-01 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：:One atypical isolate of the pathogenic yeast Candida albicans was isolated from an Italian patient with vulvovaginitis. The strain, germ tube positive and chlamydospore-negative showed white-thin turquoise colonies on Candida ID 2 medium. The yeast was identified as Candida africana by using morphological and biochemi...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Romeo O,Criseo G

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this prospective study 197 serum and 152 urine samples were collected from 40 bone marrow and solid organ transplant recipients with clinically suspected invasive fungal infection before, during and after empirical treatment with lipid formulation of amphotericin B or fluconazole. Serum was analysed by Candida poly...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Chryssanthou E,Klingspor L,Tollemar J,Petrini B,Larsson L,Christensson B,Ringdén O

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：: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：:Yeast-phase lysate antigens were prepared from 10 different isolates of Blastomyces dermatitidis. Comparative studies were performed using the lysate antigens in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the detection of antibodies in sera from dogs with blastomycosis and histoplasmosis. In order to evaluate th...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Wakamoto A,Abuodeh RO,Scalarone GM

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro and in vivo tolerance of sertaconazole gel, a new topical azole antifungal, was studied. Ketoconazole gel (Panfungol) was used as a reference substance. The methods applied for tolerance assessment were the bovine corneal opacity and permeability test for the in vitro assay and a modified Draize test for ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Romero A,Grau MT,Villamayor F,Zapatero J,Mayordomo L,Tortajada A,Sacristán A,Ortiz JA

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistotyping was used to characterise 106 strains of Candida albicans classified as to whether they came from deep or superficial infections. The data were analysed by logistic regression analysis. There was a statistically significant difference between the two groups of strains. After removal of variables by the lo...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Hunter PR

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Oral follow-up therapy is problematic in moulds with reduced azole-susceptibility, such as azole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus infection. Currently, only intravenous liposomal amphotericin B (L-AmB) is advocated by guidelines for the treatment of azole-resistant aspergillosis infections. Preclinical resear...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Schauwvlieghe AFAD,Buil JB,Verweij PE,Hoek RAS,Cornelissen JJ,Blijlevens NMA,Henriet SSV,Rijnders BJA,Brüggemann RJM

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida wangnamkhiaoensis is a species clustered under the Hyphopichia clade has not ever been isolated from any clinical specimens. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of C. wangnamkhiaoensis associated with fungaemia in immunocompromised paediatric patient. The isolate was assigned a strain name a...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Tap RM,Ho Betty LS,Ramli NY,Suppiah J,Hashim R,Sabaratnam P,Ginsapu SJ,Gowbei A,Razak MF,Sipiczki M,Ahmad N

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic vegetating pyoderma is usually associated with staphylococci and streptococci. A case that started as a therapeutically resistant tinea of the hand caused by Trichophyton mentagrophytes is described. The vegetating skin lesion was associated with low immunoglobulin levels and impaired phagocytosis. It healed a...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Skorepová M,Stuchlík D

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was carried out to evaluate the utility of serological tests in the diagnosis of candidal infections in non-neutropenic critically ill patients. A prospective study was carried out in a 10-bed general intensive care unit; all patients with at least one organic sample with Candida spp. were included. A thera...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Ibàñez-Nolla J,Torres-Rodríguez JM,Nolla M,León MA,Mèndez R,Soria G,Díaz RM,Marrugat J

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and fifty cases of corneal ulcers from the Government Ophthalmic Hospital, Madras, were investigated during 1980-1982 for the mycoflora. 68 cases (45%) were positive for fungi, comprising species of Aspergillus (36 cases), Penicillium, Fusarium (8 cases each), Curvularia (4 cases), Candida albicans and Muc...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Sundaram BM,Badrinath S,Subramanian S

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of voriconazole fully includes Aspergillus, and also emerging moulds like Fusarium, Pseudallescheria boydii, and Penicillium marneffei. The minimal inhibitory concentrations of voriconazole for Candida krusei and Candida glabrata, which are resistant or less susceptible to fluconazole, promise cl...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Kappe R

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycetoma is a chronic granulomatous, subcutaneous disease endemic in tropical and subtropical countries. It is currently a health problem in rural areas of Africa, Asia and South America. Nine cases of mycetoma were analysed in a retrospective study. All isolates were identified by morphological features. The level of...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Rojas OC,León-Cachón RB,Moreno-Treviño M,González GM

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microsporum canis is a zoophilic species, found to be the most frequently isolated species in animals. M. canis causes sporadic outbreaks of infections in humans, such as the one that occurred in Canada, where more than 1000 human cases were detected over an 8-year period. Despite the medical importance of M...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Abastabar M,Jedi A,Guillot J,Ilkit M,Eidi S,Hedayati MT,Shokohi T,Daie Ghazvini R,Rezaei-Matehkolaei A,Katiraee F,Javidnia J,Ahmadi B,Badali H

更新日期：2019-11-01 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