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Fungal Infections, Treatment and Antifungal Resistance: The Sub-Saharan African Context. [PDF]

open access: yesTher Adv Infect Dis
Boakye-Yiadom E   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Emergomyces: A New Genus of Dimorphic Fungal Pathogens Causing Disseminated Disease Among Immunocompromised Persons Globally

open access: yesCurrent Fungal Infection Reports, 2018
The emergence of a group of previously unknown or unrecognized dimorphic fungal species causing systemic human disease resulted in taxonomic shifts and the creation of a new genus, Emergomyces, within Onygenales. We review the morphology, taxonomy, physiology, and ecology of Emergomyces spp., and the epidemiology, clinicopathology, diagnosis, and ...
Nelesh P Govender   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

First Report of Urease Activity in the Novel Systemic Fungal Pathogen Emergomyces Africanus: A Comparison With the Neurotrope Cryptococcus neoformans. [PDF]

open access: yesFEMS Yeast Research, 2017
Cryptococcus neoformans is an opportunistic pathogen responsible for the AIDS-defining illness, cryptococcal meningitis. During the disease process, entry of cryptococcal cells into the brain is facilitated by virulence factors that include urease enzyme activity.
Nelesh P Govender   +2 more
exaly   +6 more sources

Disseminated Emergomyces pasteurianus Infection in India: A Case Report and a Review

Mycopathologia, 2019
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 nodule,
Malini R. Capoor   +7 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Fatal pulmonary mycoses by Emergomyces pasteurianus in a renal transplant recipient from India

Journal of Medical Mycology
We describe a rare case of pulmonary infection by an emerging dimorphic fungus, Emergomyces pasteurianus in a 73-year-old renal transplant recipient from Northern India. The patient presented with fever and shortness of breath for ten days. The bronchoalveolar lavage revealed yeast cells and grew E.
Harsimran Kaur   +9 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Emergomyces africanus : a new cause of opportunistic infections in immunocompromised hosts

2018
Emergomyces africanus is a dimorphic fungus reported from South Africa in 2013 (as Emmonsia sp.) as a cause of invasive fungal disease (IFD) in immunocompromised hosts. Herein we describe the clinical features of the disease and the ecological niche of Es.
openaire   +2 more sources

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