63 Chitin and β-1,3-glucan are known to play an important role in determination of fungal cell wall rigidity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae 1. Three chitin synthases participate in yeast chitin synthesis. ChS1p functions as a reparation enzyme after cell division 2 , ChS2p is responsible for the synthesis of primary septum 3, 4 and ChS3p synthesizes chitin in the lateral wall and in the ring at th...

A40-year-old man with no significant past medical history developed fever, dry cough, night sweats, chills, and malaise 1 week after hiking in the mountains in Michigan. He visited his primary care physician (PCP) and was treated with oral azithromycin for 5 days with no improvement. The patient then traveled to Europe for 2 weeks. During this trip, he had daily fevers, chills, cough, and sweat...

background and aims. it is believed that adherence of candida albicans to oral surfaces is a critical event in the colonization and development of oral diseases such as candida-associated denture stomatitis. although there is considerable information about the adherence of candida albicans to buccal epithelial cells and prosthetic materials, there is very little information available about the ...

Background and Purpose: Fungal keratitis is a suppurative, ulcerative, and sight-threatening infection of the cornea that sometimes leads to blindness. The aims of this study were: recuperating facilities for laboratory diagnosis, determining the causative microorganisms, and comparing conventional laboratory diagnostic tools and semi-nested PCR. Materials and Methods: Sampling was conducted in...

Background: Denture-stomatitis (DS) is the most common form of oral candidosis with increased prevalence in cigarette smokers (Akram et al. 2018). Interestingly, tobacco condensate (TC) increases Candida albicans adhesion, growth, biofilm-formation, virulence gene expression (Semlali 2014)and hyphal production (Awad and Karuppayil We hypothesised that TC-treated denture acrylic would therefore ...

Psyllium is a viscous, gel forming fibre with properties that have led it to be used for alleviating gastrointestinal discomfort. We previously identified fractions of psyllium differing flow properties. Fraction 1 (F1) forms non-gelling solution containing rhamnose. galactose, and arabinose. 2 (F2) fluid-like mainly xylose arabinose, 3 (F3) has almost identical monosaccharide linkage compositi...

Aspergillus fumigatus is the most pathogenic mold that causing high morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients. In study, we presented first characterization of cyclase-associated protein (CAP) A. fumigatus. To study role CAP pathogenesis antifungal susceptibility fumigatus, constructed gene knockout strain (△CAP) complemented (R-△CAP). △CAP showed reduced growth rate, abnormal hypha...