Cao, Cunwei Xi, Liyan Chaturvedi, Vishnu
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Mycopathologia
Talaromycosis (penicilliosis) is a major fungal disease endemic across a narrow band of tropical countries of South and Southeast Asia. The etiologic agent is a thermally dimorphic fungus Talaromyces (Penicillium) marneffei, which was first isolated from a bamboo rat in Vietnam in 1956, but no formal description was published. In 1959, Professor Ga...
Tsang, Chi-Ching Lau, Susanna K P Woo, Patrick C Y
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Mycopathologia
The fungus Talaromyces marneffei was described by Professor Gabriel Segretain in 1959, originally as a member of the genus Penicillium. As early as 60 years ago, its peculiarity in exhibiting temperature-dependent morphological dimorphism, its characteristic ability to secrete diffusing red pigment during the mycelial phase and its pathogenicity ha...
Capoor, Malini R Mishra, Neelangi Kolte, Sachin Singla, Gaurav Gogna, Arun Rudramurthy, Shivaprakash Prakash, Hariprasath Chakrabarti, Arunaloke
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Mycopathologia
We report here a case of disseminated Emergomyces pasteurianus infection from India in a patient with AIDS. The patient presented with weight loss, dyspnoea and multiple non-tender skin lesions over face, neck and chest over 3 months. The case was diagnosed by microscopy, histopathology of sample and isolation of fungus from skin lesion, breast nod...
Quan, Yu van den Ende, Bert Gerrits Shi, Dongmei Prenafeta-Boldú, Francesc X Liu, Zuoyi Al-Hatmi, Abdullah M S Ahmed, Sarah A Verweij, Paul E Kang, Yingqian de Hoog, Sybren
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Mycopathologia
The prevalence of black fungi in the order Chaetothyriales has often been underestimated due to the difficulty of their isolation. In this study, three methods which are often used to isolate black fungi are compared. Enrichment on aromatic hydrocarbon appears effective in inhibiting growth of cosmopolitan microbial species and allows appearance of...
Garzoli, L Riccucci, M Patriarca, E Debernardi, P Boggero, A Pecoraro, L Picco, A M
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Mycopathologia
White-nose disease, caused by the dermatophyte Pseudogymnoascus destructans, is a devastating pathology that has caused a massive decline in the US bat populations. In Europe, this fungus and the related infection in bats have been recorded in several countries and for many bat species, although no mass mortality has been detected. This study repor...
Pinheiro, Dolores Monteiro, Carolina Faria, Miguel A Pinto, Eugénia
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Mycopathologia
Infections caused by filamentous fungi are rising in incidence and became a serious health concern. Their rapid and reliable identification in the clinical laboratory is essential for an early and accurate diagnosis to guide timely therapy. Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) has been reported...
Zheng, Hailin Blechert, Oliver Mei, Huan Ge, Liyu Liu, Jia Tao, Ye Li, Dongmei de Hoog, G S Liu, Weida
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Mycopathologia
Trichophyton rubrum (T. rubrum) is anthropophilic fungus and thus a very common cause of dermatophyte infections around the world. Infection of T. rubrum could result in conditions such as tinea capitis, tinea corporis, tinea inguinalis, tinea manus, tinea unguium, or tinea pedis. Because of this, the resistance of T. rubrum to antifungal therapies...
Danesi, P Falcaro, C Dukik, K Jiang, Y Rizzoli, A P Allavena, R Simpson, V Ravagnan, S Zanardello, C Capelli, G
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Mycopathologia
Using specific primers based on the ribosomal operon, positive DNA amplification was obtained from lungs of 11/215 tested small burrowing animals, both terrestrial and aquatic, and including frozen (n = 4) and formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (n = 7) samples. The main species detected in Europe in mice, otters and river rats was Emmonsia crescens. ...
Righi, E La Rosa, A Sartor, A Londero, A Carnelutti, A Bassetti, M
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Mycopathologia
Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia in non-HIV patients is infrequent and characterized by atypical presentations and increased severity. Although hematogenous dissemination from the lungs can lead to extrapulmonary infections, isolation of oocysts from blood in human subjects has not been documented. We report a case of P. jiroveci pneumonia with pers...
Shumoto, Godai Nagashima, Luciene Airy Itano, Eiko Nakagawa Minakawa, Tomoko Ueda, Keiichi Sano, Ayako
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Mycopathologia
Recently, we have reported serological cross-reactivity between paracoccidioidomycosis ceti and paracoccidioidomycosis, histoplasmosis, and coccidioidomycosis. However, data on the interaction of Arthrographis kalrae with the above pathogenic fungal infections are lacking. A. kalrae is a widely occurring ascomycetous fungus; causes superficial and ...
