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Mycoses in AIDS [PDF]

Medical Mycology, 2000
Major changes are occurring in the epidemiology of opportunistic infections (OI) in patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and treated with highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). A marked decrease of minor and major OI was observed and clinical resistance of thrush to antifungal agents became extremely rare.
B, Dupont, H H, Crewe Brown, K, Westermann, M D, Martins, J H, Rex, O, Lortholary, C A, Kauffmann   +6 more
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A Retrospective Analysis of Culture-Confirmed Enterococci Bloodstream Infections in South Africa, 2016–2020: A Cross-Sectional Study

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022
(1) Background: The emergence of multidrug resistance enterococci is a major public health concern. This study aimed to determine the prevalence and antimicrobial resistance of enterococci isolated from blood cultures over a five-year period (2016–2020 ...
Ruth Mogokotleng, Husna Ismail, Olga Perovic, Sabelle Jallow   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Molecular diagnostics in South Africa and challenges in the establishment of a molecular laboratory in developing countries

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2020
The laboratory plays a significant role in public health surveillance, outbreak investigation and infection prevention and control strategies. Microbiology laboratories are moving towards incorporating molecular biology techniques for the surveillance ...
Ashika Singh-Moodley, Husna Ismail, Olga Perovic   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence of fungal infections using National Health Insurance data from 2009-2013, South Korea [PDF]

Epidemiology and Health, 2014
OBJECTIVES The symptoms of fungal infections vary from minor to severe. According to recent reports, fungal infection prevalence is increasing due to increases in the aging population and in patients with compromised immune systems.
Hee Jung Yoon, Hwa Young Choi, Young Kwon Kim, Yeong Jun Song, Moran Ki   +4 more
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No Impact of Fluconazole to Echinocandins Replacement as First-Line Therapy on the Epidemiology of Yeast Fungemia (Hospital-Driven Active Surveillance, 2004–2017, Paris, France)

Frontiers in Medicine, 2021
Replacement of fluconazole by echinocandins as the first-line therapy for yeast-related fungemia could have an impact on both the mortality rate and the epidemiology of yeast species responsible for candidemia.
Stéphane Bretagne, Stéphane Bretagne, Stéphane Bretagne, Marie Desnos-Ollivier, Karine Sitbon, Olivier Lortholary, Olivier Lortholary, Olivier Lortholary, Didier Che, Françoise Dromer, Participants of the YEASTS   +10 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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

AIDS-Related Mycoses: Current Progress in the Field and Future Priorities. [PDF]

, 2017
Opportunistic fungal infections continue to take an unacceptably heavy toll on the most disadvantaged living with HIV-AIDS, and are a major driver for HIV-related deaths. At the second EMBO Workshop on AIDS-Related Mycoses, clinicians and scientists from
Hoving, Jennifer C, Hoving, JC, Nielsen, Kirsten, Armstrong-James, Darius, Tihana Bicanic, Bicanic, T, Kamuyango, Alfred A., Brown, Gordon D, Meintjes, Graeme, Working group from the, EMBO Workshop on AIDS-Related Mycoses, Jennifer C. Hoving, Brown, Gordon D., Armstrong-James, D, Gordon D. Brown, Working Group from the EMBO-AIDS Related Mycoses Workshop, Bicanic, Tihana, Working Group from the EMBO Workshop on AIDS-Related Mycoses, Nielsen, K, Brown, GD, Hoving, Jennifer C., Graeme Meintjes, Darius Armstrong-James, Kirsten Nielsen, Meintjes, G   +23 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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