Is there a need for autopsies in the management of fungal disease?

abstract：:Although case series of talaromycosis have been reported in China, their detailed clinical and microbiological characteristics have never been systematically profiled. In this study, we report the clinical characteristics, molecular epidemiology, rapid identification and antifungal susceptibilities of talaromycosis in...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Lau SKP,Xing F,Tsang CC,Tang JYM,Tan YP,Ye H,Lau RWT,Chen JHK,Lo SKF,Woo PCY

更新日期：2019-05-01 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:Despite reports of fungal infections in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), their clinical and microbiological characteristics remain unknown. OBJECTIVES:The aim of this systematic review was to examine all available evidence regarding fungal infections in patients with IBD. METHODS:Systematic ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Stamatiades GA,Ioannou P,Petrikkos G,Tsioutis C

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of fixed cutaneous sporotrichosis that developed on the extensor aspect of the left wrist of an 83-year-old woman was treated once a week with 200 mg of oral fluconazole. This dermatological lesion healed within 4 months, leaving a scar. No side-effects were seen. At the time of writing, 7 months after the end ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Yoshida M,Hiruma M,Tezuka T

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 45-year-old woman was found to have cerebral phaeohyphomycosis caused by an Exophiala species. The portal of entry of the fungus remained unknown. Despite surgery and antimycotic therapy the patient died from circulation failure. The fungus is compared to several related Exophiala species. ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Tintelnot K,de Hoog GS,Thomas E,Steudel WI,Huebner K,Seeliger HP

更新日期：1991-05-01 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：:Fungal infections of the maxillary sinus are frequently caused by Aspergillus species, particularly A. fumigatus. In otherwise healthy persons there is an association with overfilling of dental root canals, when zinc-containing filling materials were used. Below, a maxillary sinus aspergilloma is reported in a young i...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Horré R,Schumacher G,Marklein G,Krömer B,Wardelmann E,Gilges S,De Hoog GS,Wahl G,Schaal KP

更新日期：2002-11-01 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：: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：:Orointestinal mycoses are localized mainly in the oral cavity and in the oesophagus. Candida oesophagitis is not only found in AIDS-patients, also in patients of risk admitted to intensive care units. Upper intestinoscopies were made in 124 patients. Oesophageal candidosis was found in 6 patients, two of them had also...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Bernhardt J

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For several years, the Platelia Candida mannan antigen enzyme immunoassay (Candida EIA) has been commercially available as a diagnostic test for invasive candidosis. We evaluated the Candida EIA with patients with proven fungemia caused by yeasts from which at least one serum sample was available. Fifty-nine patients ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Rimek D,Redetzke K,Singh J,Heinrich K,Kappe R

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The infections caused by fungi represent a global concern and an important cause of hospital admissions in endemic areas. The influence of socio-environmental factors in infectious diseases has been documented; however, this phenomenon remains unclear regarding mycoses. OBJECTIVES:This study aimed to analys...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： da Silva LC,de Oliveira LVN,Silva FB,Santos JRN,de Araújo MLS,Mendes AGG,Miranda RCM,Santos DA,Holanda RA,Santos JRA

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim was to evaluate efficacy and tolerance of a short-schedule treatment regimen using a small dose of itraconazole in pulse intermittently. The open study evaluated the pulse therapy consisting of monthly 1-week cycles of oral itraconazole 200 mg daily for 2-3 consecutive months in 42 patients with onychomycosis....

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Wu J,Wen H,Liao W

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the existence of endemic mycoses in Latin America and the Caribbean, in addition to a large population of patients at risk for invasive mycoses, the capability of medical centres to perform a proper diagnosis in mycology has not been studied in the region. Moreover, availability of antifungal drugs in the regi...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Falci DR,Pasqualotto AC

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relevance of infections with moulds in humans is increasing. Relevant genera are Alternaria, Cladosporium, Scopulariopsis, and Fusarium. Fusarium thereby is characterized by typical makroconidia and special makroscopical features. Known as pathogen in plants the fungi can also cause intoxications and - more seldom...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Seyfarth F,Hipler UC

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：:Mycological and/or bacteriological studies were performed on 294 samples isolated from the external auditory control (EAC). It was observed that 185 (81.5%) of the mycological analysis were negative while 42 (18.5%) were positive with the following distribution: 22 Candida (9.7%), 15 Aspergillus (6.5%) and five associ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Amigot SL,Gomez CR,Luque AG,Ebner G

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phaeohyphomycosis refers to infections caused by phaeoid fungi that can have an aggressive course in normal hosts. We report a case of left-sided renal phaeohyphomycosis due to Bipolaris spicifera in a 7-year-old immunocompetent male child. He presented with fever, dysuria, nausea, vomiting and flank pain. Examination...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Kaur R,Bala K

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic fungal infection is a frequent complication in patients receiving intensive chemotherapy for acute leukaemia. Hepatic lesions may be detected using computerised tomographic (CT) scans, but there is no standardised CT protocol for the diagnosis and follow-up of hepatic fungal infection. We therefore retrospecti...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Petrausch U,Frauenfelder T,Mueller NJ,Arn K,Stussi G,Schanz U

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a retrospective study on the superficial mycoses due to Trichophyton violaceum in the greater Athens area for the last 15 years - 1989-2003. During this period 104 patients were found to have an infection due to T. violaceum- an incidence rate of 0.75% of all dermatophytosis. Of the patients 59 were Greeks, 15...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Frangoulis E,Papadogeorgakis H,Athanasopoulou B,Katsambas A

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 29-year-old woman with swelling, multiple nodules and discharging sinuses of her right foot is presented. A single nodule on the sole was excised 15 years ago and since then she has had recurrent attacks of swelling and discharging sinuses that improved partially with antibiotics. Magnetic resonance images (MRI) rev...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Gündüz K,Orgüç S,Demireli P,Inanir I,Sürücüoglu S,Ovali GY

更新日期：2006-09-01 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：: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 phenomenon of persistent suppression of Candida albicans yeast cell growth after short drug exposures (postantifungal effect, PAFE) was determined by performing comparative studies using different concentrations of 5-fluorocytosine (5-FC), amphotericin B (AMPH) and miconazole (MCZ). An in vitro turbidometric metho...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Scalarone GM,Mikami Y,Kurita N,Ichihara Y,Yazawa K,Miyaji M

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work presents the epidemiology of dermatomycoses and their etiological agents of people living in the Lódź region, Central Poland, over the years 1987-1996. The analysis involved subjects referred by physicians to three major mycological laboratories in Lódź (covering the entire mycological diagnostics of the Lód...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Seneczko F,Lupa S,Jeske J,Głowacka A,Ochecka-Szymańska A

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate a possible effect of optical brighteners on the growth of dermatophytes. Typical strains of Trichophyton rubrum, T. mentagrophytes, Microsporum canis and Epidermophyton floccosum were grown on agar plates containing two different brighteners of stilbenedisulfonic acid type in c...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Brasch J,Kreiselmaier I,Christophers E

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 165 sporotrichosis cases occurring in Nagasaki prefecture, and examined at Nagasaki University Hospital, were evaluated. Both males and females were equally affected, with no significant differences in the affected body regions. Lesions were frequently seen on the face (49 cases, 29.5%) and upper limbs (101...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Takenaka M,Yoshizaki A,Utani A,Nishimoto K

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of systemic candidal infection in neutropenic patients continues to be a major problem, and only 20% of patients survive despite treatment with amphotericin B (Amph B). Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) is a haemopoietic glycoprotein that appears to control the survival, cycle, activation, pr...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Hamood M,Bluche PF,De Vroey C,Corazza F,Bujan W,Fondu P

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate if there is some relation between the sensitisation to fungi and the occurrence of food hypersensitivity reactions in atopic dermatitis patients aged 14 years and older. Complete dermatological and allergological examination was performed in all included patients; the occurrence o...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Čelakovská J,Bukač J,Ettler K,Vaneckova J,Krcmova I,Ettlerova K

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the course of infection of Balb/c mice with Candida albicans. After intravenous infection of mice, the yeasts were evenly distributed in the liver sections. There was a 90% reduction in the yeasts found within 7 days after infection. This reduction was accompanied by an increase in the number of p...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Kretschmar M,Jung C,Fontagnier E,Quade B,Nichterlein T,Hof H

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00