Colorimetric MTT assessment of antifungal activity of D0870 against fluconazole-resistant Candida albicans.

abstract：:This retrospective study reviews the occurrence and treatment of various forms of tinea capitis at the out-patient clinic for Dermatology and Pediatric Dermatology of the University Hospital Sophia/Dijkzigt over the period 1977-1988. Tinea capitis was diagnosed in 64 children. Trichophyton violaceum was the pathogen m...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： van der Willigen AH,Oranje AP,de Weerdt-van Ameijden S,Wagenvoort JH

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The observation of a considerable incidence of fungal infections in oncology patients has promoted a large number of studies both on prophylaxis and treatment in this patient group. Trials using triazoles, especially fluconazole, have shown effect in preventing fungal infections. In neutropenic patients, their role in...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Schuler U,Mölle M,Ehninger G

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Japan, Trichophyton tonsurans infection has become an increasing problem among combat sports participants. We investigated the prevalence of T. tonsurans infection in athletes affiliated to judo clubs in the 21 First Division universities that were registered with the University Judo Federation of Tokyo in 2008. St...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Hirose N,Suganami M,Ogawa YS,Hiruma M,Ogawa H

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：: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：:Cryptococcus neoformans is a widely distributed saprophytic fungus that may cause opportunistic infections in normal and immunocompromised individuals particularly in patients with HIV infection. Disseminated infection in HIV-negative individuals is occasionally seen: a 57-year-old HIV-negative Turkish female initiall...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Kokturk N,Ekim N,Kervan F,Arman D,Memis L,Caglar K,Kalkanci A,Demircan S,Kurul C,Akyurek N

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：UNLABELLED:Cryptococcosis is frequently associated to the immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) in AIDS patients on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). This study aimed to evaluate clinical and evolutive features of IRIS associated cryptococcosis patients in Uberaba, Brazil. PATIENTS:Eighty-one ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： da Cunha Colombo ER,Mora DJ,Silva-Vergara ML

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：:A commercially available antigen assay (Pastorex Aspergillus) was used to detect Aspergillus antigen in serial bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluids and sera of patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation (six patients with autopsyproven aspergillosis and 10 control patients without evidence of fungal infection). As...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Rath PM,Oeffelke R,Müller KD,Ansorg R

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the diagnostic value of serum Candida mannan antigen (MN) and anti-mannan IgG and IgM antibodies for candidiasis. METHODS:This study was a prospective cohort study. Clinical data and venous blood samples from 23 medical centres in Beijing, China were collected between 1 January 2017 and 31 December...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Wang K,Luo Y,Zhang W,Xie S,Yan P,Liu Y,Li Y,Ma X,Xiao K,Fu H,Cai J,Xie L

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

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 objective of this research was to conduct a survey of fungi in activated sludge plants with membrane bioreactors (MBRs). Thirty-six samples of both aerobic and anoxic activated sludge were taken from two plants with MBRs treating domestic wastewater. Over a period of 8 months, two samples from each plant were take...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Awad MF,Kraume M

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultraviolet B light (UVB) can have negative phototropic effects on fungi. Candida albicans is often found on human skin exposed to UVB. Therefore, it is of medical interest to know whether a negative phototropic response to UVB irradiation can support an invasive growth of this potentially dangerous agent. In our stud...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Brasch J,Kay C

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) is a neglected fungal disease that elicits an important granulomatous inflammatory reaction which aims to isolate the fungi and resolve the infection; besides the innate cellular response, the patients' sera may contain different levels of antibodies directed against PCM's pathogenic agent...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： de Carli ML,Cardoso BC,Malaquias LC,Nonogaki S,Pereira AA,Sperandio FF,Hanemann JA

更新日期：2015-06-01 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：:Deep fungal infections are an increasing problem in the treatment of acute leukemias and malignant lymphomas. Risk factors are known but unavoidable. Because of diagnostic difficulties most patients are treated empirically with intravenous amphotericin B. This drug's toxicity increases morbidity and mortality. An oral...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Prentice AG,Bradford GR

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：:Anti-Candida antibodies were determined in 2053 sera with an indirect hemagglutination test (HAT; Labor Diagnostika, Heiden, Germany) and with an enzyme immunoassay (ELISA) which detects IgG antibodies (Institut Virion, Würzburg, Germany). Antigen diagnostics was performed with the Cand-Tec-test (Ramco, Houston, USA)....

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Werle E,Kappe R,Fiehn W,Sonntag HG

更新日期：1994-01-01 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 report deals with three patients, who developed paracoccidioidomycosis in Europe after having been in South America 50, 25 and 38 years before, respectively. The conditions for the long period of quiescent infection and for the late manifestations are discussed. ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Ginarte M,Pereiro M Jr,Toribio J

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty strains of Candida isolated from 38 patients with oropharyngeal candidosis were tested in vitro for fluconazole susceptibility with a disk diffusion test and for determination of minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs). For 25 patients treated with fluconazole, the relationship between in vitro susceptibility a...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Dannaoui E,Lacoste V,Prat C,Piens MA

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pityriasis versicolor (PV) is a superficial fungal infection where Malassezia species play a definite causative role, but the clinical significance of each of these species is not fully understood. The aim of our study was to analyse the prevalence of Malassezia species in PV lesions and to examine if the range of spe...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Prohic A,Ozegovic L

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive aspergillosis has increasingly been recognised to cause significant morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients. Fever unresponsive to broad-spectrum antibiotics is the earliest and most common sign of an invasive fungal infection. As invasive Aspergillus infections are usually acquired by inhalatio...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Schwartz S,Thiel E

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of localized cutaneous cryptococcosis successfully treated with oral itraconazole is reported. The patient, a 63-year-old Japanese housewife, had had an erythematous and partly eroded lesion in the area of her right earlobe for about 10 months. No findings suggesting a primary focus of Cryptococcus infection we...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Sato T,Koseki S,Takahashi S,Maie O

更新日期：1990-09-01 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 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：:Scedosporium apiospermum is an emerging agent of opportunistic mycoses in humans. Previously, we showed that mycelia of S. apiospermum secreted metallopeptidases which were directly linked to the destruction of key host proteins. In this study, we analysed the effect of metallopeptidase inhibitors on S. apiospermum de...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Silva BA,Souza-Gonçalves AL,Pinto MR,Barreto-Bergter E,Santos AL

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The opportunistic black yeast are particularly known through the genus Exophiala, characterised by annellidic budding cells. However, this phenotype is polyphyletic within the order Chaetothyriales. Seventeen generic names are available in the family Herpotrichiellaceae, one of which is Exophiala. Future taxonomy will...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Moussa TAA,Al-Zahrani HS,Kadasa NMS,Moreno LF,Gerrits van den Ende AHG,de Hoog GS,Al-Hatmi AMS

更新日期：2017-06-01 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