Cutaneous purulent aspergillosis in a young man with chronic granulomatous disease.

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：:Histoplasmosis occurs in approximately 5% of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) patients in endemic areas and often evolves to a disseminated picture if diagnosis is delayed and/or CD4 count falls below 150 cells x mm(3) without high active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). This report presents clinical features ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Mora DJ,dos Santos CT,Silva-Vergara ML

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scedosporium prolificans infections of normal hosts usually require extensive debridement and sometimes amputation to effect cure, due to the intrinsic resistance of this species to available antifungal agents. Newer agents have not tested favourably. Variable results are obtained with voriconazole, and 100% resistanc...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Gosbell IB,Toumasatos V,Yong J,Kuo RS,Ellis DH,Perrie RC

更新日期：2003-06-01 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：:A total of 133 Candida spp. strains originating from a group of 100 patients from Santa Casa de Misericórdia of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, between March 1995 and December 1996, were first identified and classified into six different species: Candida albicans (51%), C. tropicalis (33%), C. parapsilosis (8%), C. glabrata (...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Resende JC,de Resende MA,Saliba JL

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：:Aspergillus fumigatus is the leading cause of mortality in severely immunocompromised individuals. Understanding pathogen dispersion and relatedness is essential for determining the epidemiology of nosocomial infections. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the diversity and putative origins of clinical...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Falahatinejad M,Vaezi A,Fakhim H,Abastabar M,Shokohi T,Zahedi N,Ansari S,Meis JF,Badali H

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug-resistant Candida auris has emerged as a cause of insidious hospital outbreaks and complicated infections. We present the analysis of an ongoing C. auris outbreak including the largest published series of C. auris bloodstream infection. All C. auris-positive patients from April-2016 to January-2017 were incl...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Ruiz-Gaitán A,Moret AM,Tasias-Pitarch M,Aleixandre-López AI,Martínez-Morel H,Calabuig E,Salavert-Lletí M,Ramírez P,López-Hontangas JL,Hagen F,Meis JF,Mollar-Maseres J,Pemán J

更新日期：2018-07-01 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：: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：:Detection of serum galactomannan (GM) and (1,3)-β-d-glucan (BG) is considered useful for non-culture diagnosis of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) in neutropenic patients. Only few studies evaluated these seromarkers in non-neutropenic patients suspected of having IPA. The aim of this study was to evaluate both ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Dobias R,Jaworska P,Tomaskova H,Kanova M,Lyskova P,Vrba Z,Holub C,Svobodová L,Hamal P,Raska M

更新日期：2018-08-01 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：:Candida albicans was maintained in various culture media and incubated with different concentrations of the antifungal agent rilopirox. After fixation, dehydration and embedding in Spurr's medium, the cells were analysed at the ultrastructural level to investigate morphological aspects of the antifungal mode of action...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Reitze HK,Dannhorn DR,Hänel H,Seitz KA

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prophylactic treatment with human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (hG-CSF) affords significant protection against systemic aspergillosis or pulmonary aspergillosis in neutropenic (cyclophosphamide-treated) mice but not in cortisone-treated animals. Cryptococcosis does not respond to hG-CSF therapy. Our data show...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Polak-Wyss A

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance of Pastorex Aspergillus, a new latex agglutination test for the detection of circulating galactomannan in the serum of patients with invasive aspergillosis, was evaluated in a blind trial in standardized guinea-pig models of invasive aspergillosis and other invasive mycoses. In these animal models, the...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Van Cutsem J,Meulemans L,Van Gerven F,Stynen D

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro antifungal activity of D0870 against eight isolates of fluconazole-resistant Candida albicans was compared with that of itraconazole, ketoconazole and miconazole. The colorimetric MTT [3-(4,5-dimethyl-2-thiazolyl)-2,5-diphenyl-2H tetrazolium bromide] assay was used to assess the antifungal activities. The...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Yang HC,Mikami Y,Yazawa K,Taguchi H,Nishimura K,Miyaji M,Branchini ML,Aoki FH,Yamamoto K

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new semi-solid culture medium was developed by substituting the agar in Sabouraud glucose medium by Lutrol FC 127 (BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany). This culture medium can be liquefied by cooling it down from the incubation temperature to 5-10 degrees C, thus allowing the full harvest of fungal mycelium without any con...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Garg AP,Müller J

更新日期：1992-11-01 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：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：:There is scarcity of data regarding significance of candiduria in patients with haematologic malignancies and its association with invasive candidiasis. To that end, we retrospectively evaluated all hospitalised, non-intensive care unit patients with haematologic malignancies and candiduria during a 10-year period (20...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Georgiadou SP,Tarrand J,Sipsas NV,Kontoyiannis DP

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：: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：:Paracoccidioidomycosis is a deep mycosis endemic to Latin America, with considerable morbidity and mortality. It is caused by the dimorphic fungus Paracoccidioides brasiliensis, which affects, among other organs in the human body, the oral cavity. Fungus virulence and immunocompetence of the host determine the establi...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Abreu e Silva MÀ,Salum FG,Figueiredo MA,Cherubini K

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：:Oral, pharyngeal and esophageal infections caused by Candida species occur very frequently when it comes to radiation therapy for head and neck cancer. In clinical terms oral candidosis is most often characterized by pseudomembranes or erythema. The erythematous form of oral candidosis has in particular to be distingu...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Poland JM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim was to evaluate the in vitro activity of voriconazole compared with those of amphotericin B, itraconazole and fluconazole against 132 bloodstream isolates of Candida non-albicans and Saccharomyces cerevisiae species. The minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs) were determined by an adapted National Committee ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Swinne D,Watelle M,Van der Flaes M,Nolard N

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent observations on reciprocal regulation of humoral and cell-mediated immunity to Candida albicans are presented and their significance in the exploration of the host-fungus-relationship is discussed. ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Romani L

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scedosporium apiospermum is a ubiquitous filamentous fungus, commonly found in soil, sewage and polluted waters. It is rarely pathogenic but can cause a broad spectrum of clinical diseases, which can be localised or disseminate to distant organs. The disseminated form of the disease is mostly seen among immunocompromi...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Dinh A,Demay O,Rottman M,Gaudot F,Bougnoux ME,Bouchand F,Coignard H,Rouzaud C,Davido B,Duran C,Nich C

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Summary The authors report a case of bullous tinea pedis caused by Trichophyton violaceum with dermatophytid reaction in a 26-year-old woman who had been in Africa. Diagnosis was based on mycological examination (direct microscope observation and culture). Recovery was achieved after systemic antimycotic therapy with ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Romano C,Rubegni P,Ghilardi A,Fimiani M

更新日期：2006-05-01 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