Dermatol Sinica, December 2005 From the Department of Dermatology, Taipei Medical University Hospital and Taipei Medical University Taipei Municipal WanFang Hospital* Accepted for publication: August 12, 2005 Reprint requests: Kuo-Liang Cheng, Department of Dermatology, Taipei Medical University Taipei Municipal Wan-Fang Hospital,* 111 Hsin-Long Rd, Section 3, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. TEL: 886-2-...

elephantiasis nostras verrucosa (env) is a rare condition in which hyperkeratosis, fibrosis and disfiguration of dermis occurs. it is caused mostly by non infectious diseases such as surgery, trauma, tumors, and venous obstructions. to our knowledge there is not any case report of env in middle east region. in this patient, env caused by trauma and patient presented with enlargement of right lo...

An unprecedented decline in the diversity and health of coral reefs is occurring around world as they are threatened by multiple global local stressors. Rising seawater temperature low dissolved oxygen (DO) conditions expected to intensify a result climate change. Understanding responses corals these stressors necessary for making predictions devising mitigation strategies. The three species—Po...

Although cutaneous tuberculosis is rarely seen in developed countries, it is still commonly seen in developing countries. Tuberculosis verrucosa cutis (TVC) is a form of cutaneous tuberculosis that is caused by direct inoculation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis into the skin through open wounds or abrasions in sensitized individuals and is rarely seen in our country. Scrofuloderma is a form of cu...

Elephantiasis nostras verrucosa (ENV) is a rare clinical condition associated with chronic non-filarial lymphedema caused by bacterial or non-infectious lymphatic obstruction. A variety of etiologies, including infection, tumor obstruction, trauma, radiation, chronic venous stasis, congestive heart failure, and obesity, can lead to chronic lymphatic obstruction and edema. Mossy papules, plaques...

Effective transformations of 1 to the desired L-cladinose analogues (4-6) were done by appropriate microbial transformations^ (Scheme 1). Oxidation of an allylic alcohol of 17) afforded a dienone (29), 80% yield), MP 108°C, [a]^7 -30° (c 0.6, MeOH), FD-MS m/z 826 (M+H)+. A carbomycin B-type analogue of 2 (3"-Omethylcarbomycin B) has been synthesized by Tatsuta et al.10) via glycosylation as a l...

The soybean cyst nematode (SCN; Heterodera glycines) and brown stem rot (BSR) fungus (Phialophora gregata) are serious pests of soybean, occurring over a range of soil types and soil pH. Often found in the same field, management strategies implemented to control one pathogen may in fact exacerbate damage caused by the other. As soybean acreage has increased, the duration between soybean crops h...

Because of their ability to display yeast-like growth forms in various environmental conditions, dematiaceous (melanized) hyphomycetes of the form-genera Exophiala, Rhinocladiella, and Wangiella have been informally termed "black yeasts." Cladistic analysis of 1,050 bp of the genes coding for small-subunit rRNA (SSU rDNA) supported a close relationship among species of these black yeasts with o...