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Emerging Frontiers in Clinical Mycology: Innovations, Insights, and Impacts. [PDF]

Mycoses
ABSTRACT The Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium (MSGERC)—a group comprising clinicians, researchers, patients, and industry partners—meets every 2 years to review the most significant challenges facing the clinical mycology community and plan research, education, and advocacy strategies to prevent fungal infections and improve ...
Apostolopoulou A, Stewart AG, Yoon H, Steinbrink JM, Friedman DZP, Ostrosky-Zeichner L, Schwartz IS, Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium (MSGERC).   +7 more
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Infrared Spectroscopy as a Promising Tool for Diagnosing and Typing Human Pathogenic Fungi. [PDF]

Mycoses
ABSTRACT Fungal infections are increasingly recognised as a global health challenge, responsible for millions of cases annually and substantial mortality, especially in immunocompromised individuals. Yet, the diagnosis of these infections remains notoriously difficult, often delayed by slow culture‐based methods or hindered by the high cost and ...
Medeiros AGJ, Nascimento ALF, Rossato L, Santos DA, Peres NTA, Neto RGL, Meis JF, Lima KMG, Bastos RW.   +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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An overview of antimicrobial resistance surveillance among healthcare-associated pathogens in South Africa

African Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2018
Healthcare-associated infections are a serious public health concern resulting in morbidity and mortality particularly in developing countries. The lack of information from Africa, the increasing rates of antimicrobial resistance and the emergence of new
Ashika Singh-Moodley, Husna Ismail, Olga Perovic   +2 more
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Superficial and subcutaneous mycoses

Microbiologia Medica, 2020
Tegument mycoses are classified into three groups: 1) Superficial skin mycoses or superficial mycoses: infections sustained by fungi limited to the skin horny layer or the hair extrafollicular portion, without a significant inflammatory response in the ...
Gianluigi Lombardi, Giuliana Lo Cascio, Stefano Andreoni, Elisabetta Blasi, Marco Conte, Claudio Farina, Paolo Fazii, Silvana Sanna, Laura Trovato   +8 more
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Histoplasma capsulatum Infection in an Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Patient Receiving Voriconazole Prophylaxis [PDF]

, 2020
Histoplasma capsulatum infection is a rare complication in the allogeneic stem cell transplant patients. Minimal guidance exists on how to appropriately manage histoplasmosis in these patients.
Agrawal, Vaibhav, Brinda, Bryan J., Farag, Sherif S.   +2 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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Fungicidal activity plus reservoir effect allow short treatment courses with terbinafine in tinea pedis [PDF]

, 2008
Terbinafine, a synthetic allylamine, exerts fungicidal activity against dermatophytes, the causative pathogens of tinea pedis. As proven in numerous clinical trials, tinea pedis can be effectively and safely treated by topical terbinafine.
Korting, Hans Christian, Schäfer-Korting, Monika, Schöllmann, C.   +2 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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Analysis of Aspergillus spp. Isolates According to Temporal-Spatial, Sociodemographic, and Clinical Variables-Microsatellite Typing of Clinical and Environmental Samples of Aspergillus fumigatus in a University Hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil. [PDF]

Mycoses
ABSTRACT Background Typing Aspergillus species is crucial for understanding the sources of infection in hospital environments. Objectives This study analysed clinical and air samples as well as their relationship with the clinical forms of aspergillosis.
Fonseca CA, Araujo R, Coelho VC, Camargo CH, Magri MMC, Motta AL, Côrtes MF, Mamana AC, Batista MV, Moreira DVDS, Croce AP, Giudice MC, Costa AN, Demarzo SE, Dos Santos AG, Guimarães T, de Freitas VLT, Costa SF, Shikanai Yasuda MA.   +18 more
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