Onychomycosis due to Cunninghamella bertholletiae in an Immunocompetent Male from Central India [PDF]
Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2015 Onychomycosis is a fungal infection of nails seen frequently in immune competent and immune compromised patients due to dermatophytes, Candida spp., Fusarium spp., Scopulariopsis brevicaulis, Penicillium spp., and Aspergillus spp.
Karuna Tadepalli +3 more
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A Rare Fungal Infiltration of Lungs in a Healthy Young Girl [PDF]
Case Reports in Pulmonology, 2011 Cunninghamella bertholletiae is an opportunistic fungal organism found in soil and is a rare cause of human disease. The few reported cases of C. bertholletiae have involved immune compromised hosts. We report a case of C.
Rajesh Gupta +5 more
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A case report of successful treatment of pulmonary mucormycosis caused by Cunninghamella bertholletiae infection in a patient with T-lymphoblastic lymphoma [PDF]
HeliyonMucormycosis caused by Cunninghamella bertholletiae (C. bertholletiae) is a rare opportunistic infection in patients with hematological malignancies (HM), with high mortality rates.
Qing Yang +5 more
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An autopsy case of disseminated Cunninghamella bertholletiae infection in an immunocompetent patient: a case report [PDF]
BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2023 Background Recently, deaths due to mucormycosis in immunocompromised hosts have increased; however, the clinical and pathological features of mucormycosis are not fully understood, especially in view of the associated high mortality and rare incidence in
Masanori Harada +9 more
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Fatal disseminated mucormycosis due to Cunninghamella bertholletiae infection after ABO-incompatible living donor liver transplantation: a case report [PDF]
Surgical Case Reports, 2022 Background Fungal infection may develop because of immunosuppression after organ transplantation, in which invasive types, such as Aspergillus and Mucorales, fungi cause morbidity.
Atsuyoshi Mita +10 more
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Detection of circulating fungal DNA by polymerase chain reaction in a fatal case of Cunninghamella bertholletiae infection [PDF]
IDCases, 2020 Introduction: Cunninghamella bertholletiae although rarely causing mucormycosis, is responsible for the highest mortality among mucormycetes. The diagnosis of mucormycosis is challenged by the absence of specific biomarkers.
Rika Hiramoto +9 more
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Extraction of short chain chitooligosaccharides from fungal biomass and their use as promoters of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Short chain chitooligosaccharides (COs) are chitin derivative molecules involved in plant-fungus signaling during arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) interactions.
Andrea Crosino +12 more
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Fungal Oxidoreductases as Biocatalysts for Fine Chemicals Transformations [PDF]
Chemical Engineering Transactions, 2016 Fungal oxidoreductases are promising tools for the production of fine chemicals as pharmaceuticals, flavors and fragrances. In this study, 28 filamentous fungi, belonging to 24 genera, were tested in the bioconversion of methyl cinnamate; only ...
A. Romagnolo +6 more
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Heavy metal tolerance of fungal and bacterial isolates, and their functional groups following biosorption [PDF]
Ceylon Journal of Science, 2023 Heavy metal contamination still prevails due to improper discharge of effluents from industries, mining activities, agricultural and domestic sources.
I. O. Sule +3 more
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Peritoneal dialysis-associated peritonitis from pauci-septated mold: Life-threatening but curable [PDF]
Medical Mycology Case Reports, 2023 Two cases of PD-associated peritonitis due to Cunninghamella (C. bertholletiae and C. guizhouensis) were reported here with favorable outcomes, albeit presenting with septicemia.
Theerachai Thammathiwat +5 more
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