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Retrospective Epidemiological Analyses of 12,976 Culture-Positive Superficial Fungal Infections in Shanghai, East China. [PDF]

Mycoses
ABSTRACT Background Superficial fungal infections (SFIs) are common dermatological conditions, and both domestic and international reports indicate an increasing incidence in recent years. Their prevalence is strongly affected by climate, temperature, humidity and lifestyle, resulting in significant regional variations.
Zheng C, He W, Tan J, Liu X, Wang Y, Li L, Ni L, Yu Q, Yang L.   +8 more
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Immunologic Diagnosis of Endemic Mycoses

Journal of Fungi, 2022
The endemic mycoses blastomycosis, coccidioidomycosis, histoplasmosis, paracoccidioidomycosis, cryptococcosis, sporotrichosis, talaromycosis, adiaspiromycosis, and emergomycosis are mostly caused by geographically limited thermally dimorphic fungi ...
Rodrigo Almeida-Paes, Andrea Reis Bernardes-Engemann, Beatriz da Silva Motta, Claudia Vera Pizzini, Marcos de Abreu Almeida, Mauro de Medeiros Muniz, Renata Alves Barcelos Dias, Rosely Maria Zancopé-Oliveira   +7 more
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Cryptococcosis Serotypes Impact Outcome and Provide Evidence of Cryptococcus neoformans Speciation

mBio, 2015
Cryptococcus neoformans is a human opportunistic fungal pathogen causing severe disseminated meningoencephalitis, mostly in patients with cellular immune defects. This species is divided into three serotypes: A, D, and the AD hybrid.
Marie Desnos-Ollivier, Sweta Patel, Dorothée Raoux-Barbot, Joseph Heitman, Françoise Dromer   +4 more
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Diversity of SCCmec elements and spa types in South African Staphylococcus aureus mecA-positive blood culture isolates

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2020
Background The prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus varies depending on the healthcare facility, region and country. To understand its genetic diversity, transmission, dissemination, epidemiology and evolution in a particular geographical location, it is ...
Ashika Singh-Moodley, Michelle Lowe, Ruth Mogokotleng, Olga Perovic   +3 more
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Mortality due to systemic mycoses as a primary cause of death or in association with AIDS in Brazil: a review from 1996 to 2006

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2009
Deaths caused by systemic mycoses such as paracoccidioidomycosis, cryptococcosis, histoplasmosis, candidiasis, aspergillosis, coccidioidomycosis and zygomycosis amounted to 3,583 between 1996-2006 in Brazil. When analysed as the underlying cause of death,
Marli Prado, Marcelo Barbosa da Silva, Ruy Laurenti, Luiz R Travassos, Carlos P Taborda   +4 more
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In Vitro Activity of Ceftolozane-Tazobactam against Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa Obtained from Blood Cultures from Sentinel Public Hospitals in South Africa

Antibiotics, 2023
Multidrug-resistant (MDR) Gram-negative bacteria are responsible for the majority of healthcare-associated infections and pose a serious threat as they complicate and prolong clinical care.
Olga Perovic, Ashika Singh-Moodley, Michelle Lowe   +2 more
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Molecular Diagnosis of Endemic Mycoses

Journal of Fungi, 2022
Diagnosis of endemic mycoses is still challenging. The moderated availability of reliable diagnostic methods, the lack of clinical suspicion out of endemic areas and the limitations of conventional techniques result in a late diagnosis that, in turn ...
Clara Valero, María Teresa Martín-Gómez, María José Buitrago   +2 more
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Challenges in microbiological diagnosis of invasive Aspergillus infections [version 1; referees: 2 approved]

F1000Research, 2017
Invasive aspergillosis (IA) has been increasingly reported in populations other than the historical hematology patients and there are new questions about the performance of microbiological tools.
Alexandre Alanio, Stéphane Bretagne
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Epidemiological Characterization of Imported Systemic Mycoses Occurred in Korea [PDF]

Osong Public Health and Research Perspectives, 2018
Objectives Imported systemic mycoses is a severe fungal infection that can cause diseases in healthy people. However, there is a serious lack of epidemiological data about imported systemic mycoses.
Seung-Hak Cho, Young-Bin Yu, Je-Seop Park, Keun-Dol Yook, Young-Kwon Kim   +4 more
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Human mycoses [PDF]

Zbornik Matice Srpske za Prirodne Nauke, 2005
Fungi are an independent group of plant kingdom which members do not contain chlorophyll and have no capability of photo synthesizing, meaning that they can not synthesize nutritive compounds, so they exist as the saprophytes or parasites of plants ...
Tasić Siniša B., Stojanović Slobodan N., Poljački Mirjana N.   +2 more
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