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Climate Change, Natural Disasters, and Cutaneous Fungal Infections

open access: yesInternational Journal of Dermatology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fungal infections are an important source of morbidity and mortality that can manifest as superficial or invasive diseases. Diagnostic techniques for human fungal pathogens remain problematic, and multi‐drug resistance is emerging. This review addresses the potential emergence of new fungal pathogens in changing environments and reported ...
Aditya K. Gupta   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comprehensive Review of Tinea Capitis in Adults: Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Clinical Presentations, and Management

open access: yesJournal of Fungi
Tinea capitis is a fungal infection of the scalp and hair caused by dermatophyte molds, that most often affects children and may also affect adults. Previous estimates suggest that between 3% and 11% of all tinea capitis cases worldwide occur in adults ...
Rachel C. Hill   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Isolamento de dermatófitos em animais domésticos em Vila Real, Portugal Dermathophytes isolated from domestic animals in Vila Real, Portugal

open access: yesArquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, 2008
During a six-year period from 2000 to 2006, 257 animal samples (fur and skin desquamation) were submitted to mycological examination in the Laboratory of Microbiology at the Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal. Dermathophytes
A.C. Coelho, N. Alegria, J. Rodrigues
doaj   +1 more source

A novel approach for feline sporotrichosis pathogen detection based on loop‐mediated isothermal amplification

open access: yesVeterinary Dermatology, EarlyView.
Background – Sporotrichosis is a chronic, mycotic infection caused by fungi of the genus Sporothrix. Zoonotic sporotrichosis occurs mainly through S. brasiliensis transmission, resulting from the organism's traumatic introduction via scratches or bites, or contact with exudate from contaminated cats.
Steffanie Amadei   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tinea capitis due to Trichophyton tonsurans in a Maltese patient [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
We report a case of tinea capitis caused by Trichophyton tonsurans in a 16-year-old male. This appears to be the first documented case of tinea capitis caused by this dermatophyte in a native Maltese patient.peer ...
Baldacchino, Godfrey   +3 more
core  

Tinea capitis among children at one suburban primary school in the City of Maputo, Mozambique Tinea capitis entre as crianças de uma escola primária suburbana na Cidade Maputo, Mozambique

open access: yesRevista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2007
This study evaluated the prevalence of Tinea capitis among schoolchildren at one primary school and also identified the causative agents. Scalp flakes were collected from children presenting clinical signs suggestive of Tinea capitis.
Mohsin M. Sidat   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Skin microbiome engineering: Challenges and opportunities in skin diseases treatment

open access: yesiMetaOmics, Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2025.
The skin microbiome plays a crucial role in skin health, influencing barrier integrity, immune responses, and disease susceptibility. Various interventions can reshape the microbiome, broadly categorized into targeted and untargeted approaches. Targeted strategies, such as phage therapy, engineered bacteria, and phage lysins, selectively modulate ...
Yiang Lyu, Juntao Shen, You Che, Lei Dai
wiley   +1 more source

Antifungal Activity of Osthole on Microsporum canis through Interfering with Biosynthesis of Fungal Cell Wall

open access: yes, 2018
Osthole extracted from Cnidii Fructus, a herb used in traditional Chinese medicine, was reported to possess multiple activities such as antibacterial, antiinflammatory, antitumor and insecticidal.
C. Y. Liu   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A revision of Schoenobryum (Cryphaeaceae, Bryopsida) in Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
The nine species and two varieties of Schoenobryum reported for Africa were investigated, and no characters were found that uniquely identified any of the taxa to be other than the pantropical Schoenobryum concavifolium.
O’Shea, Brian J.
core  

Toward a Novel Multilocus Phylogenetic Taxonomy for the Dermatophytes. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Type and reference strains of members of the onygenalean family Arthrodermataceae have been sequenced for rDNA ITS and partial LSU, the ribosomal 60S protein, and fragments of β-tubulin and translation elongation factor 3.
de Hoog, G.S.   +12 more
core   +2 more sources

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