opportunistic infections due to free-living amoebae such as granulomatous amoebic encephalitis (gae), cutaneous acanthamoebiasis and disseminated infections could be the causative agent of mortality in people living with hiv/aids. in this study, we report the occurrence of the acanthamoeba belonging to the t4 genotype isolated from nasal and oral swabs of a 15 -yr-old man with hiv infection. hi...

Epizootic pneumonia of bighorn sheep is a devastating disease of uncertain etiology. To help clarify the etiology, we used culture and culture-independent methods to compare the prevalence of the bacterial respiratory pathogens Mannheimia haemolytica, Bibersteinia trehalosi, Pasteurella multocida, and Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae in lung tissue from 44 bighorn sheep from herds affected by 8 outbrea...

Candida albicans is the most frequent opportunistic fungal agent in human being. One of its virulence factors is phenotypic switching. In this study, we investigated the susceptibility of different phenotypes of C. albicans, obtained from clinical specimens, to fluconazole (FLZ) and voriconazole (VRZ) with microdilution reference method. In this study, 281 C. albicans of six different phenotype...

Skin infection caused by Tricophyton rubrum and some opportunistic fungi such as Candida. Albicance and Aspergillus. fumigatus occur in various parts of the body and sometimes are difficult to be treated. Antifungal effects of spherical silver nanoparticles (nano-Ag) were investigated in this study. Although silver nanoparticle has long been used as effective inorganic antifungal agent; the ant...

With the expansion of immune-impaired people during second wave Covid-19 case mucormycosis and aspergillosis caused by different fungi such as Rhizopus oryzae, Candida albicans Aspergillus niger arose in states. The current study reveals molecular interaction ligand protein to find novel natural drug. docking was carried out CB-dock tool compound n-heptadecanol-1 were docked with opportunistic ...

Suspended goals are those that are postponed by an agent because they do not fit into the agent's current, ongoing agenda of plans. Recognizing later opportunities to achieve suspended goals is an important cognitive ability because it means that one can defer work on a goal until one is in a better position to achieve the goal. This paper focuses on when and how such opportunities are recogniz...

Infectious disease remains one of the largest burdens on humankind. Even with modern medical and public health standards, infectious disease remained the No. 1 killer worldwide at the turn of the century. Often, the most costly disease burdens come from multiple infections at once, i.e., coinfection. Influenza, an annual infection often considered relatively harmless, can increase susceptibilit...

Host resistance to infection depends on the efficiency with which innate immune responses keep the infectious agent in check. Innate immunity encompasses components with sensing, signaling and effector properties. These elements with non-redundant functions are encoded by a set of host genes, the resistome. Here, we review our findings concerning the resistome. We have screened randomly mutagen...

Cervical cancer is the fifth most common cancer in European women. The recognition of a viral agent such as Human Papillomavirus (HPV) as a necessary cause in the development of cervical cancer implies that this disease may be prevented by effective prophylactic or therapeutic interventions against this infection. HPV vaccines conferring protection against infection with oncogenic HPV types 16 ...