abstract：:Toxigenic saprophytic fungi were isolated from samples of shellfish, sediment and seawater obtained from marine shellfish farming areas. The 456 strains identified included 12 different genera, with a clear predominance (68%) of Penicillium, Aspergillus, Trichoderma and Cladosporium. To assess the risk of poisoning du...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Sallenave-Namont C,Pouchus YF,Robiou du Pont T,Lassus P,Verbist JF

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight food-borne mycotoxins epidemiologically implicated in human disease were tested for their cytotoxic effects on human cells previously immortalised and transfected to introduce human cytochrome p450 (CYP 450) genes. Such cells retain many characteristics of normal cell growth and differentiation while simultaneou...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Lewis CW,Smith JE,Anderson JG,Freshney RI

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kernel samples of common and dwarf Brazilian cashew nuts were highly contaminated with field and storage fungi in comparison to healthy ones. In general, dwarf cashews were more contaminated than common. A total of 37 fungal species were identified. Aspergillus niger was the dominant species with more colonies being i...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Freire FC,Kozakiewicz Z,Paterson RR

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans were previously described as being highly divergent in their level of capsule synthesis in vivo and in their virulence for mice. The highly virulent isolate (NU-2) produced more capsule than a weakly virulent isolate (184A) in vitro under tissue culture conditions and in vivo. T...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Blackstock R,Buchanan KL,Cherniak R,Mitchell TG,Wong B,Bartiss A,Jackson L,Murphy JW

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of Rhinosporidium seeberi have demonstrated that this organism has a complex life cycle in infected tissues. Its in vivo life cycle is initiated with the release of endospores into a host's tissues from its spherical sporangia. However, little is known about the mechanisms of sporangium formation and endospore...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Mendoza L,Herr RA,Arseculeratne SN,Ajello L

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of four mycotoxins, T-2 toxin, deoxynivalenol (DON), ochratoxin A (OTA) and fumonisin B1 (FB1) on the response of bovine peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBM) in vitro to the mitogens concanavalin A (Con A), phytohaemagglutinin A (PHA) and pokeweed mitogen (PWM) were assayed after 4 days' incubation usi...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Charoenpornsook K,Fitzpatrick JL,Smith JE

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary conidia of the entomopathogens Erynia (subgenus Neopandora) delphacis (1 isolate) and Erynia (Neopandora) neoaphidis (3 isolates) were stimulated to form germ-tubes with Tween 20 and with free, long-chain fatty acids, each incorporated into Entomophthora complete medium (ECM). When combined with other basal me...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Uziel A,Kenneth RG

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A severe root rot disease of cotton caused by Pythium carolinianum was diagnosed in a cotton field in Beni-Musa village, 20 km southwest of El-Minia city, Egypt, during the summer of 1996. This was the first reported isolation of this fungus in Egypt. In the light of the importance of the cotton industry in Egypt, res...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Abdelzaher HM,Elnaghy MA

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sediments from eight river mouths along the Catalonian coast (Spain) were surveyed for keratinolytic fungi and related Onygenales. The actidione plating technique was employed. Of 532 actidione-treated sediment samples, 268 (50.3%) were positive for the fungi. Altogether, 384 fungal strains from 35 species were isolat...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Ulfig K,Guarro J,Cano J,Gené J,Vidal P,Figueras MJ,Lukasik W

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of a modified natural porcine surfactant (Curosurf) on phagocytosis and killing of Cryptococcus neoformans by alveolar macrophages and on the production of superoxide anions were investigated in vitro. Attachment and ingestion were evaluated separately by a fluorescent quenching technique. The nitroblue te...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Gross NT,Camner P,Chinchilla M,Jarstrand C

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-four isolates of the eight most common Fusarium species isolated from Norwegian cereals; F. avenaceum, F. culmorum, F. equiseti, F. graminearum, F. poae, F. sporotrichioides, F. torulosum and F. tricinctum were studied for their cytotoxicity and ability to produce mycotoxins. The strains were cultivated on rice...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Langseth W,Bernhoft A,Rundberget T,Kosiak B,Gareis M

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malbranchea gypsea IMI 338,168 isolated from the soils of Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur was studied for its ability to produce exocellular proteases on glucose-gelatin medium at pH 7; 28 degrees C. The fungus was observed to be a potent producer of such enzymes. Protease production was optimal at 15 days of incuba...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Singh CJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 227 marine isolates of ubiquitous fungi were cultivated on different media and the secondary metabolite content of the extracts (ethyl acetate/chloroform/methanol 3:2:1) characterized by HPLC. The fungi were secured from animals, plants and sediments of Venezuelan waters (0-10 m) including mangroves and lag...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Christophersen C,Crescente O,Frisvad JC,Gram L,Nielsen J,Nielsen PH,Rahbaek L

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fumonisins are mycotoxins produced by Fusarium moniliforme, F. proliferatum, and related Fusarium species found on corn. They occur naturally in corn-based feeds and foods and are suspected human esophageal carcinogens. Fumonisin B1 (FB1), the most common homologue, causes the animal diseases associated with F. monili...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Voss KA,Plattner RD,Riley RT,Meredith FI,Norred WP

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mycological survey was carried out on the fruit surface of Indian jujube during its growth period (before harvest). A total of 32 microfungi belonging to 20 genera were isolated by surface washing technique. Artificial inoculations with the isolated myco-propagules were also performed in mature jujube fruits and mos...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Singh YP,Sumbali G

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) types based on restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) patterns with HaeIII were investigated in clinical isolates of Sporothrix schenckii in North and South America. In addition to 14 mtDNA types (Types 1-14) so far reported, six new mtDNA types, Types 15-20 were found in this study....

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Ishizaki H,Kawasaki M,Aoki M,Matsumoto T,Padhye AA,Mendoza M,Negroni R

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated two DNA fragments from Sporothrix schenckii. These fragments were nonspecifically amplified from the whole-cell DNA using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primers originally designed in the gene encoding heat shock protein 70 of Mycobacterium leprae. Reverse transcription PCR demonstrated that the smal...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Sugita Y,Fukushima J,Murakami M,Takahashi I,Nakajima H

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections by Cunninghamella bertholletiae have been on the increase in recent years. However, little is known about this fungus and its infection. To clarify the pathogenicity of C. bertholletiae, we made a murine model, and to our knowledge, the first infectious model of this fungus. ICR mice pretreated with cortiso...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Honda A,Kamei K,Unno H,Hiroshima K,Kuriyama T,Miyaji M

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of temperature, pH, water potential and sources of nitrogen and carbon on the biocontrol agent Penicillium oxalicum were studied in vitro. The fungus is xerotolerant, mesophillic and has a wide pH tolerance. The parameters evaluated (germination, germ tube length, growth rate and sporulation) showed differe...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Pascual S,Rico JR,De Cal A,Melgarejo P

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparative study was conducted with soybean material presenting symptoms of the Diaporthe/Phomopsis complex that was collected in two distant geographical regions of the world: Beltsville, MA, USA, and Vojvodina, Yugoslavia. Contrasting with earlier findings, great variability in the disease symptoms was observed, ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Nevena M,Jelena V,Franić-Mihajlović D

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To quantify the thigmotropism, we adapted the our previous method using a chemotaxifilter system in combination with a bioluminescent adenosine triphosphate (ATP) assay based on firefly luciferase-luciferin system and analyzed the relationship between the ability of germ tube formation and thigmotropism of C. albicans...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Nikawa H,Nishimura H,Hamada T,Sadamori S

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of a sub-inhibitory concentration of chlorhexidine on lipid and sterol composition of Candida albicans was investigated. The total lipid content of this yeast grown in the presence of chlorhexidine was reduced whilst the total sterol content was increased compared with control-grown cells. Lipids and sterol...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Abu-Elteen KH,Whittaker PA

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Argentina, there is rather little information about the natural occurrence of mycotoxins in feedstuffs. The aim of this work was to determine the fungal flora and natural incidence of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1), zearalenone (ZEA) and deoxynivalenol (DON) in poultry feeds from 5 factories of Río Cuarto, Córdoba. Three hund...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Dalcero A,Magnoli C,Chiacchiera S,Palacios G,Reynoso M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo interactions of rabbit alveolar macrophages (AM) and Cryptococcus neoformans, a yeast pathogenic for humans, were studied. As a control, inert silica particles of a similar diameter (5-6 microns) were used. Of 16 rabbits, 6 were instilled intratracheally with fluorescein-labelled heat-killed C. neoformans, 6 w...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Nessa K,Gross NT,Jarstrand C,Johansson A,Camner P

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural infection of Aspergillus flavus was observed in adults of Blattella germanica. Though the adult insects exhibited no external symptoms, they became hypoactive and later died. The dead and experimentally infected insects repeatedly yielded Aspergillus flavus in culture on Czapek's medium. Direct microscopic obs...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Kulshrestha V,Pathak SC

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some epidemiologic, diagnostic and immunologic aspects of 93 (75 males and 18 women) cases of cryptococcosis (CRY) associated with AIDS, hospitalized in the Muñiz Hospital (MH) in Buenos Aires during 1994, were retrospectively studied. The median age (MA) of the patients under study was 28 years (17-49 y); 30 (17-49) ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Bava AJ,Negroni R,Arechavala A,Robles AM,Bianchi M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microorganisms capable of producing opportunist infections include the yeast-like organisms of the genus Candida, and the unicellular algae of the genus Prototheca, which share common features and can, therefore, lead to confusion. Their colonies are almost identical and they grow in the same culture media used ro...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Casal M,Linares MJ,Solís F,Rodríguez FC

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic dermatophytosis was observed in 2276 (10.02%) of 22,692 patients with dermatophytosis during a period of 5.5 years. Males were affected at least 3 times more frequently than females. The age group most commonly affected was between 20 and 40 years of age. Females were affected more between the ages of 30 to 40...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Sentamilselvi G,Kamalam A,Ajithadas K,Janaki C,Thambiah AS

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraperitoneal administration of the mycotoxin penitrem A 30 min before a training session in passive avoidance task, impaired performance of rats subjected to a test-session 24 h after. This effect was not antagonised by pretraining administration of physostigmine or bicuculline. Administration of penitrem A 20 min ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Deschaux O,Bizot JC

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty isolates of Verticillium fungicola var. fungicola collected from diseased fruit-bodies of Agaricus bisporus from prochloraz-treated crops, were exposed to a range of concentrations of six chemicals (benomyl, chlorothalonil, formaldehyde, iprodione, prochloraz-Mn-complex and prochloraz + carbendazim) in vitro. E...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Gea FJ,Tello JC,Honrubia M

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty commercial corn hybrids with different endosperm characteristics, vegetative cycle length and cross class grown in the same geographical area (Cordoba Province, Argentina) were analysed for fumonisin accumulation. All hybrids analysed showed fumonisin B(1) and B(2) contamination ranging from 185 to 27,050 ng/g f...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Ramirez ML,Pascale M,Chulze S,Reynoso MM,March G,Visconti A

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipase (Glycerol ester hydrolase E.G. 3.1.1.3) from a Brazilian strain of Penicillium citrinum free of the mycotoxin citrinin has been investigated. Citrinin production was inhibited by using culture medium containing olive oil, soybean oil and corn oil as carbon sources. Potassium concentration and pH play an importa...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Pimentel MC,Melo EH,Lima Filho JL,Durán N

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic exposure to moniliformin results in the development of myocardial hypertrophy and degeneration. The cause of this hypertrophy is unknown. However, moniliformin-induced hypoxia or altered function of cardiac pyruvate dehydrogenase, rather than direct cardiostimulation have been proposed as potential mechanisms....

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Reams RY,Thacker HL,Harrington DD,Novilla MN,Wilson B

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipases have only been detected in a few fungi and yeasts, in particular in Candida albicans. Secreted phospholipases are considered by some researchers to be a potential factor of virulence and pathogenicity in C. albicans. Twenty-three Cryptococcus neoformans strains were tested in order to observe phospholip...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Vidotto V,Sinicco A,Di Fraia D,Cardaropoli S,Aoki S,Ito-Kuwa S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histoplasma capsulatum var. duboisii is the etiological agent of African histoplasmosis, an important deep mycosis in West Africa. Not much is known about the physiological properties of this fungus. This communication reports on the extracellular proteolytic enzyme activity of this fungus. Five isolates of this fungu...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Muotoe-Okafor FA,Gugnani HC,Obidoa OO

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a survey of the mycoflora and mycotoxins in foods and feeds, 66 samples of mixed poultry feeds and some component raw materials were investigated. Fungal counts ranged from < 10(2) to 1.3 x 10(6) CFU/g. Fusarium spp. counts ranged from 10(2) to 1.0 x 10(6) CFU/g. The fusarium spp. strains isolated were screened for...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Castellá G,Bragulat MR,Cabañes FJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of microfloral components on medicated and non-medicated swine and chicken feed pellets and crumbles, produced in a Manitoba feed mill between June 1991 and October 1992, was determined. Addition of medicates to feeds generally decreased bacterial incidence and increased that of Eurotium spp. fungi. The...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Mills JT,White ND,Woods SM

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As actinomycetoma is more frequent in males than in females, the possibility that hormones might modify the Nocardia brasiliensis growth and the course of experimental actinomycetoma was explored. Five N. brasiliensis strains were grown on Sabouraud agar containing estradiol, progesterone or testosterone, in 3 differe...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Hernandez-Hernandez F,Lopez-Martinez R,Mendez-Tovar LJ,Manzano-Gayosso P

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective study of the cytology of blastomycosis was undertaken. Sixty-one samples from 43 naturally infected dogs diagnosed ante-mortem by means of cytology were reviewed. Skin and lymph nodes rendered the highest number of positive samples with 17 out of 18 and 14 out of 17 respectively. Transtracheal washes c...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Garma-Aviña A

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the year of 1994, 417 samples of agricultural commodities, comprising: maize, compound animal feeds, oil seeds, soya bean, fish meal and forage were examined for fungi and over 20 mycotoxins using a multi-screen augmented with individual assays. Trichothecenes had the highest incidence of over 19% in all sample...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Dutton MF,Kinsey A

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00