Histoplasma Urinary Antigen for the Diagnosis Histoplasmosis in Non-HIV Individuals. [PDF]
MycosesABSTRACT Background Histoplasmosis is an endemic mycosis in the Americas. While urinary Histoplasma antigen enzyme immunoassay testing (HAET) has been validated mainly in HIV‐infected patients with disseminated disease, its performance in HIV‐negative populations with heterogeneous clinical presentations is unclear.
Nobrega de Almeida J +5 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 +7 more
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Lateral Flow Assays for the Diagnosis of Invasive Aspergillosis: Current Status. [PDF]
, 2017 Purpose of reviewDiagnosis during early stages of invasive aspergillosis (IA) and targeted antifungal treatment has the potential to improve survival significantly.
Heldt, Sven, Hoenigl, Martin
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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 +2 more
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Cryptococcosis Serotypes Impact Outcome and Provide Evidence of
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 +4 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 +8 more
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Isolation of keratinophilic fungi and aerobic actinomycetes from park soils in Gorgan, North of Iran [PDF]
, 2013 Background: Keratinophilic fungi are a group of fungi that colonize in various keratinous substrates and degrade them to the components with low molecular weight.
Abbasi Nejat, Z. +7 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 +2 more
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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 +3 more
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An efficient method for DNA extraction from Cladosporioid fungi [PDF]
, 2010 We developed an efficient method for DNA extraction from Cladosporioid fungi, which are important fungal plant pathogens. The cell wall of Cladosporioid fungi is often melanized, which makes it difficult to extract DNA from their cells.
Abd-Elsalam, K.A. +3 more
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