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Epidemiology of Systemic Mycoses in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Journal of Fungi, 2021
The physiopathologic characteristics of COVID-19 (high levels of inflammatory cytokines and T-cell reduction) promote fungal colonization and infection, which can go unnoticed because the symptoms in both diseases are very similar.
M. G. Frías-De-León, Rodolfo Pinto-Almazán, R. Hernández-Castro, E. García-Salazar, Patricia A Meza-Meneses, C. Rodríguez-Cerdeira, R. Arenas, Esther Conde-Cuevas, G. Acosta-Altamirano, E. Martínez-Herrera   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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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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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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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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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INVASIVE MYCOSES IN INTENSIVE CARE UNITS

Žurnal Grodnenskogo Gosudarstvennogo Medicinskogo Universiteta, 2020
Background: The number of patients of ICU with invasive mycoses has increased in recent years. This is due to the introduction of invasive methods of treatment, immunosuppressive therapy, organ transplantation, as well as success in the treatment of ...
Yakubtsevich R. E.
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SPREAD OF ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS MYCOSES IN THE WORLD

Журнал микробиологии, эпидемиологии и иммунобиологии, 2016
Contemporary information on the spread in the world of especially dangerous mycoses - coccidioidomycosis, histoplasmosis, blastomycosis and paracoccidioidomycosis are presented in the review.
A. Yu. Popova, A. V. Toporkov, A. V. Lipnitsky, N. V. Polovets, D. V. Viktorov   +4 more
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