abstract：:A competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was developed for the xanthone dimer secalonic acid D. The immunogen and enzyme marker were prepared by direct reaction of secalonic acid D with bovine serum albumin and horseradish peroxidase, respectively. The resultant conjugates were characterized by UV/VIS spectra a...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Neucere JN

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mycotic keratitis case which was caused by Curvularia lunata var. aeria in a patient with an injury in the eye is described. The diagnosis was based on the mycologic analysis of several samples taken from the ulcer of cornea. In vitro tests of the sensitivity of the isolated species to several antifungal drugs were ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Luque AG,Nanni R,de Bracalenti BJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three fungi, Alternaria humicola, A. pluriseptata and Aspergillus niger are being reported as new probable etiologic filamentous fungi, causing onychomycosis. The morphology and physiology of these fungi is discussed. ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Wadhwani K,Srivastava AK

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast-like forms of six P. brasiliensis strains were characterized and compared using in vitro (growth curve determination) and in vivo (pathogenicity to sensitive inbred mice) criteria. Strains Pb 18 and Pb 265 which behaved similarly in vitro, showing low counts of fungi and long mean generation times, were resp...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Kashino SS,Calich VL,Burger E,Singer-Vermes LM

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study of 450 Amazonian anurans, we isolated yeasts and yeast-like fungi from 54 animals (Bufo granulosus, B. marinus, Dendrophrynyscus sp., Hyla geographica, H. lanciformes, Ololygon rubra, Adenomera hylaedactyla, Eleutherodactylus fenestratus, Leptodactylus fuscus, L. ocellatus, L. pentadactylus). The internal o...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Mok WY,Morato de Carvalho C

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Killer toxins were isolated from eight selected killer yeasts. Their activity on 100 Candida albicans isolates of human and animal origin was studied. A computer aided system for differentiating C. albicans strains was developed. By using this system, it was possible to differentiate 14 biotypes of C. albicans isolate...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Polonelli L,Castagnola M,Rossetti DV,Morace G

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultures of the lysogenic strain of Bacillus thuringiensis var. tolworthi were made in the presence of various drugs. The determination of bacterial size and plaque forming units (by using an indicator strain of B. thuringiensis var. galleriae) as well as colony forming units were then performed. Treatment of lysogeni...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Auffray Y,Boutibonnes P

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutaneous lesions which can lead to false positive results have been observed in several rabbits used for the determination of the cutaneous irritation capacity of a product (ITA, PII). The responsible agent was Microsporum canis. A preventive treatment by an antifungal agent did not modify toxicological experimental ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Dutertre-Catella H,de Bievre C,Nguyen VH

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In view of our previous findings that vaccination of mice with Candida albicans ribosomes protects them against experimental systemic candidiasis, the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of this vaccination on the course of infection in immunized animals. Since the kidney is the major target in systemic ca...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Levy R,Segal E,Barr-Nea L

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research was carried out on the distribution of moulds on cereals in vegetation and in storerooms in the period from 1974 to 1981 and on ochratoxin (OA) in stored maize and wheat as well as residues of OA in the organs of swine in the nephropathic and non-nephropathic areas in the SR of Croatia, Yugoslavia. It was sho...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Pepeljnjak S,Cvetnić Z

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a review of factors affecting carotenogenesis by the order Mucorales which includes Phycomyces blakesleeanus, Choanephora cucurbitarum and Blakeslea trispora. The Mucorales have opposite sex types and when mated, beta-carotene production is increased 15 to 20 times. Trisporic acids are the substances produced ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Lampila LE,Wallen SE,Bullerman LB

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a survey of 296 sylvatic animals captured from virgin forests in the north-eastern and south-western Amazon of Brazil, Histoplasma capsulatum was isolated, via the indirect hamster inoculation method, from the liver and spleen of four common opossums Didelphis marsupialis and two pacas Agouti paca. The infected ani...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Naiff RD,Mok WY,Naiff MF

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present paper is to improve the understanding of the incidence of Candidosis in human infections. 85 species of Candida isolated from deep-seated and superficial Candidosis were studied. Identification was attained using the key of N. van Uden & H. Buckley (22). ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： van Gelderen de Komaid A,Silva J

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fungal flora of wheat flour and baladi bread in upper Egypt were investigated. Most of the isolated fungal species belong to the genus Aspergillus. The presence of non heat resistant fungi of the both flat surfaces of baladi bread, came from contamination after baking and from improper handling at homes. Among the...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Megalla SE,Abdou RF,Bagy MM

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of intraperitoneal paracoccidioidomycosis was studied in groups of female and male rats: a) Under normal conditions (intacts), b) After castration and c) After castration but submitted to a treatment with, respectively, testosterone and estradiol. The criterion of susceptibility to infection was based ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Kerr IB,Schaeffer GV,Miranda DS

更新日期：1984-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyacrylamide gel electropheresis and thin layer chromatography (TLC) were applied to detect the fate of aflatoxin B-1 in milk fermented with an active culture of Streptococcus lactis (ATCC-11454). TLC analysis revealed the formation of two fluorescent metabolites (B2a and R0) in fermented milk. Electropheretic analy...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Megalla SE,Mohran MA

更新日期：1984-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of phytate on the production of aflatoxins by Aspergillus parasiticus and Aspergillus flavus grown on synthetic media was examined. In the absence of pH control (initial pH 4.5-6.5) for A. parasiticus, phytate (14.3 mM) caused a six-fold decrease in aflatoxins in the medium and a ten-fold decrease in those ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Ehrlich K,Ciegler A

更新日期：1984-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A dematiaceous fungus, Phialophora richardsiae (Nannf.) Conant, was isolated from human bone. In culture the fungus produced no yeast forms and was less pigmented than two other P. richardsiae isolates. While growth rates were similar, colonial forms differed. Phialides were of two kinds. While both had broad bases an...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Yangco BG,TeStrake D,Okafor J

更新日期：1984-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors perfected, for standardization purposes, a microautomated system (Dynatech MIC 2000 Inoculator) to obtain the accurate quantitative results, i.e., determination of minimum inhibitory (MIC) and fungicidal (MFC) concentrations, avoiding the work and time consuming procedure of the classic broth dilution meth...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Polonelli L,Morace G

更新日期：1984-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Sporotrichosis is a mycosis which in our country has been described as only producing cutaneous and subcutaneous infections; in other countries it has been reported as causing pulmonary, bone, joint and meningeal infections. Possibly the systemic form also occurs in Venezuela since, along with the causative agent, all...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： de Albornoz MB,Villanueva E,de Torres ED

更新日期：1984-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the grain-plate method and on glucose- Czapek 's agar at 28 degrees C, fifty-eight species belonging to 26 genera were collected from barley (42 species and 19 genera), maize (29 species and 16 genera), sorghum (32 species and 17 genera) and wheat grains (42 species and 18 genera). The most frequent genera were ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Abdel-Hafez SI

更新日期：1984-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-seven strains of Cryptococcus neoformans and C. bacillisporus were examined for 44 biochemical characters and the results were analyzed numerically. One phenon emerged at the 86% level of similarity when strains were clustered according to their M-similarity values. All strains grew in ten carbon sources (D-glu...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Schmeding KA,Jong SC,Hugh R

更新日期：1984-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycoproteins were isolated by ethanol precipitation, Con A-sepharose 4B and DEAE-sephadex A-50 chromatography from culture filtrates of Sporothrix schenckii ATCC 10268 at incubation periods of 2, 7, and 14 days, and their chemical and immunological properties investigated. Sugar composition of the isolated glycoprote...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Takata M,Ishizaki H

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to ascertain whether cell-mediated immunity (CMI) is induced in animals by vaccination with Candida albicans ribosomes. Delayed type hypersensitivity (DTH) was detected in vivo in ribosome-vaccinated mice and guinea pigs by the footpad swelling and skin tests, respectively. The observe...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Levy R,Segal E,Eylan E,Barr-Nea L

更新日期：1983-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Sporotrichosis is characterized by a wide range of clinical manifestations from mild fixed cutaneous forms to systemic dissemination of the disease, despite an apparent regular pattern of virulence of the etiological agent, S. schenckii. These facts suggest that immunological mechanisms of the host could play an impor...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Meléndez Ruiz CE,González Mendoza A,Sotomayor JM,Ruiz Godoy VM,Ramos Zepeda R

更新日期：1983-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A 59-year-old man visited our hospital. The patient had suffered from generalized tinea superficialis for thirty years, had been treated with several topical antifungal preparations and was administered griseofulvin at another hospital. Clinical manifestations were as follows: There were large pigmentations on the che...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Nishiyama C,Miyaji M,Morioka S

更新日期：1983-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The parasitic form of Fonsecaea pedrosoi in the superficial hyperkeratotic layer of the skin, in a patient with chromoblastomycosis, was observed by a scanning electron microscope using some technical improvements. The fungus elements were comprised of branched septate hyphae with spherical cells and sclerotic cells. ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Harada S,Kusunoki T

更新日期：1983-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzymatic profiles of several yeastlike organisms were studied using 19 substrates included in the API ZYM system. The isolates evaluated were: 186 Candida albicans, 19 C. stellatoidea, 4 C. tropicalis, 2 C. parapsilosis, 2 C. pseudotropicalis, 1 C. guilliermondii, 3 C. krusei, 11 Torulopsis (Candida) glabrata, 1 ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Casal M,Linares MJ

更新日期：1983-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a case of tinea unguis in a 20 year old female student from Caracas. The peri-ungual skin of a thumb appeared altered first and, since 6 months, the lamina was being progressively invaded and destroyed. At the direct mycologic examination numerous, regular and irregular, hyaline fungal hyphae were visible....

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Marcano C,Borelli D

更新日期：1983-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspects of the fine structural characteristics of conidial and hyphal cells of the imperfect Chrysosporium state of the newly reported gymnoascaceous fungus, Renispora flavissima, are described and illustrated by electron micrographs of ultrathin sections. Preservation of the substructure of the thick-walled, smooth t...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Garrison RG,Mirikitani FK

更新日期：1983-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Prototheca wickerhamii was isolated from the stool of a two month-old infant with diarrhea resistant to treatment. This is the first description from Spain of algae of the genus Prototheca isolated from human clinical specimens. The possible pathogenicity of the Prototheca in this case is discussed. ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Casal M,Zerolo J,Linares UJ,Ibarra A

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A systematic study on autolysis of the cell walls of fungi has been made on Neurospora crassa, Botrytis cinerea, Polystictus versicolor, Aspergillus nidulans, Schizophyllum commune, Aspergillus niger, and Mucor mucedo. During autolysis each fungus produces the necessary lytic enzymes for its autodegradation. From auto...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Perez-Leblic MI,Reyes F,Martinez MJ,Lahoz R

更新日期：1982-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecologic and hygienic interests led us to analyze the mycoflora of the sands of a sand box for children's play in Turin. Along with traditional methods, we have also employed selective techniques suitable for the isolation of cellulolytic and keratinolytic fungi. A total of 89 species were isolated. As supported by th...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Filipello Marchisio V,Luppi Mosca AM

更新日期：1982-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of candidiasis in 125 symptomless, non-gravid women in Ile-Ife State Hospital, Ile-Ife, Oyo-State of Nigeria was determined by either microscopic observation or cultural methods. Among the three techniques investigated, the cultural method had the highest recovery rate with 60% of the cultures from 125 p...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Elegbe IA,Botu M

更新日期：1982-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:BAS 317 00F was not toxic to the total count of fungi after 2 days but was regularly significantly toxic at the three doses after 5, 20 and 40 days and toxic at the low and the high doses after 80 days. In the agar medium, it was toxic to the counts of total fungi. Aspergillus, A. terreus, Rhizopus oryzae and Mucor ra...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Abdel-Fattah HM,Abdel-Kader MI,Hamida S

更新日期：1982-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The aflatoxins B1, G1 and their metabolites exist in the systemic blood as protein conjugate. This conjugation is specific to plasma albumin and proceeds enzymatically by liver and kidney cells. The aflatoxin-albumin conjugate is permanent and the conjugation is an irreversible one. This may interpret the acute liver ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Nassar AY,Megalla SE,El-Fattah HM,Hafez AH,El-Deap TS

更新日期：1982-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Three new Uruguayan paracoccidioidomycosis human cases are presented. Two of them correspond to the disseminated form with metastatic lesions at the oral mucosa; the remaining one, with important pulmonary bilateral lesions corresponds to the pure chronic pulmonary form of the disease which is recognized by the first ...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Asconeguy FR,Bonasse J,Calegari LF,Conti Díaz IA

更新日期：1982-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Clearance of cryptococcal polysaccharide (CP) from tissues and body fluids of nonimmune mice was studied. Mice were injected intravenously only with one mg of purified CP, and serum, urine and tissues were obtained from each animal at various intervals for a period of 84 days. Tissue extracts, serum and urine were tes...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Muchmore HG,Scott EN,Felton FG,Fromtling RA

更新日期：1982-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Using four different assat procedures we found a 50 to 86% decrease in viability of Cryptococcus neoformans over a one year period after two towers in the Oklahoma City area were modified to exclude pigeons and weather elements, especially rain. In homogeneous pigeon dropping samples a sharp decrease in viability occu...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Ruiz A,Neilson JB,Bulmer GS

更新日期：1982-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 1244 cases suspected of superficial mycoses were analysed in a period of 12 months in Italy. Dermatophytoses were found in 62.4%; the other common disease was Pityriasis versicolor (44.1%)., The predominant species Epidermophyton floccosum (34,2%) was strikingly high in relation to other statistics; this sp...

journal_title：Mycopathologia

authors： Caretta G,Del Frate G,Picco AM,Mangiarotti AM

更新日期：1981-10-10 00:00:00