Molecular diagnostics of clinical strains of filamentous Basidiomycetes.

abstract：:Oral terbinafine (Lamisil, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland) is an effective therapy for fungal infections of the skin and nails. A post-marketing surveillance study was undertaken to evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of oral terbinafine. A total of 454 patients with clinically and mycologically confirme...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Binder M,Nell G

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumocystosis (PCP) mortality in the U.S. has received less attention in recent years. This study describes recent trends in mortality and the estimated burden of PCP in the U.S., using the national multiple cause of death data during 1999-2014. PCP mortality rates were calculated for age, sex, race and year. Demogra...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Wickramasekaran RN,Jewell MP,Sorvillo F,Kuo T

更新日期：2017-09-01 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：: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 effects of photodynamic therapy (PDT) using rose bengal or erythrosine with light emitting diode (LED) on Candida albicans planktonic cultures and biofilms. Seven C. albicans clinical strains and one standard strain (ATCC 18804) were used. Planktonic cultures and biofilms of e...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Costa AC,Rasteiro VM,Pereira CA,Rossoni RD,Junqueira JC,Jorge AO

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:A universal PCR-assay for the detection of fungal DNA was compared with microscopy and culture for the diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis using 78 samples from 42 patients. Eighteen patients were suffering from invasive aspergillosis, 5 patients were colonized with Aspergillus in the respiratory tract, 19 patients di...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Rimek D,Garg AP,Kappe R,Sonntag HG

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular characterization of Malassezia spp. isolates from animals and humans has not been thoroughly studied. We have analysed the DNA profile by random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD)-PCR to compare the genetic diversity between isolates from the external ears of cattle, dogs and humans. The analysis of electr...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Duarte ER,Hamdan JS

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histoplasmosis is an important systemic mycosis in the Americas, Asia, and Africa. Increasingly cases are recognised in nonendemic areas. Proper management requires recognition of the clinical syndromes caused by Histoplasma capsulatum infection, familiarity with the uses and limitations of the diagnostic tests, an un...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Wheat LJ

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) is a complication of respiratory bacterial and viral infections such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). PATIENTS/METHODS:In University Hospital La Paz (Madrid, Spain), we reviewed the clinical and demographic characteristics of 10 patients with positive severe acu...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Falces-Romero I,Ruiz-Bastián M,Díaz-Pollán B,Maseda E,García-Rodríguez J,SARS-CoV-2 Working Group.

更新日期：2020-08-04 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：: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：: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：: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：:Colonisation of the gastrointestinal tract is influenced by primary microbial exposure and bioactive factors in breastmilk. The aim was to explore the prevalence of oral Candida in the first year of life in relation to selected exposures. Oral Candida was studied in 100 healthy infants at 4 and 8 weeks, 3, 6 and 12 mo...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Stecksén-Blicks C,Granström E,Silfverdal SA,West CE

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Limited specific data and investigations are available for the diagnosis of Invasive Fungal Infection (IFI) in paediatrics cancer patients. Three non-invasive tests; Platelia Aspergillus EIA for galactomannan (GM), β-D-glucan (BDG) assay and pan-fungal real-time PCR for fungal DNA in blood were evaluated. One hundred ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Gupta P,Ahmad A,Khare V,Kumar A,Banerjee G,Verma N,Singh M

更新日期：2017-04-01 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：:A 54-year-old Japanese man without apparent immunosuppression presented with nodules with purulent drainage on the right lower leg. He had ringworm of the right leg and tinea unguium. A biopsy specimen of the nodule showed intradermal abscesses with fungal elements, and Trichophyton rubrum was cultured from both the p...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Inaoki M,Nishijima C,Miyake M,Asaka T,Hasegawa Y,Anzawa K,Mochizuki T

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The work reported here is the first nationwide, multicenter surveillance study conducted in Korea to obtain data on fluconazole susceptibility of Candida albicans (C. albicans) isolates. A total of 1137 isolates of C. albicans obtained from 17 university hospitals in South Korea during the 6-month period, July through...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Lee MK,Kim HR,Kang JO,Kim MN,Kim EC,Kim JS,Kim JJ,Park YJ,Song W,Shin JH,Lee KM,Lee NY,Lee M,Lee WG,Lee CK,Lee HJ,Chang CL,Choi TY

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the 21 patients with aspergillosis of central nervous system seen during the years 1990-1997, 16 (76%) had aspergillosis of sino-cranial origin. The occupation in patients with sino-cranial aspergillosis was either agricultural or manual work and predisposing risk factors were present in only two (12.5%) patients. ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Murthy JM,Sundaram C,Prasad VS,Purohit AK,Rammurti S,Laxmi V

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：:Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are one of the most common pharmacological agents. They have three primary therapeutic properties including anti-inflammatory, anti-pyretic and analgesic effects. Seven NSAIDs were tested against two species of dermatophytes. Percentage inhibition was determined for effec...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Al-Janabi AA

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth and viability of two Paracoccidioides brasiliensis strains were evaluated in PYG and MMcM media containing no boric acid. The two P. brasiliensis strains exhibited a similar growth pattern in PYG medium, which was considered to be good compared with the growth curves in defined MMcM medium without boric aci...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： de Moraes Borba C,Mendes da Silva AM,Cunha de Oliveira P

更新日期：1996-03-01 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：:Infections caused by dermathophytes in the scrotal skin are uncommon especially due to Microsporum gypseum, which may form scutular or favus-like lesions. We report two patients with this type of tinea: one immune suppressed by HIV infection and another immunocompetent without comorbidity. In the literature we found o...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Prochnau A,de Almeida HL Jr,Souza PR,Vetoratto G,Duquia RP,Defferrari R

更新日期：2005-05-01 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：:Cryptococcal meningitis (CM) is one of the most common opportunistic infections of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), as well as an important cause of hospitalisation and death. In recent years, the mortality of CM has remained high in HIV/AIDS population, with up to 30%, including within developed countries. ...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Wu X,Shen Y

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone lesions in African histoplasmosis caused by Histoplasma capsulatum var, duboisii, without other signs of the infection, are often misdiagnosed as cancer. A case of isolated osteomyelitis due to this fungus in a 30-year-old woman is described. Diagnostic and therapeutic problems of isolated bone lesions in African...

journal_title：Mycoses

authors： Onwuasoigwe O,Gugnani HC

更新日期：1998-03-01 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：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