background fungi have been extensively isolated and investigated from skin in various parts of the world. determining the mycoflora of normal people is important when the role of skin is considered as a reservoir for microorganisms. objectives the current study aimed to investigate the incidence of fungal flora on interdigital spaces of the human foot. patients and methods samples were collecte...

We studied the fungal flora of the conjunctival sac in 919 eyes and air-borne fungi between November 1979 and February 1980. Fungi were cultured from 39 of 587 swabs (6.6%) from healthy conjunctivas. This incidence fluctuated with the number of air-borne fungi. The incidence of positive cultures was significantly higher in diseased eyes (32 of 184 eyes; P less than .005). Under ordinary conditi...

Investigations in the airborne mycoflora of Karachi was carried out using Spore Trapper technique along with culture media Petri plate technique. In order to collect different types of airborne fungal spores, five sites were selected for installing the spore trappers. In the course of collected spores, different types of fungal spores were identified. The study revealed that the fungal spores w...

Through ten field surveys in Kanghwa Island from August of 1997 to March of 2002, total 107 specimens of wood-rotting fungi belonging to the Aphyllophorales were collected and identified to the species. They taxonomically amounted to 10 families, 31 genera, and 48 species. Among them, one family, Steccherinaceae, and four genera, Australohydnum, Castanoporus, Dacryobolus and Haplotrichum were c...

Medicinal plants traditionally occupied an important role in rural lives of India and are considered as one of the most important source of medicine since the dawn of human civilization. The healing properties of medicinal plants are usually linked with the presence of secondary metabolites and this differs from one plant to another. Medicinal plants are associated with a broad variety of micro...

Several fungal species are known to cause severe respiratory and cutaneous diseases. The aim of this work was to analyze the fungal flora in maxillary sinuses in patients suffering from chronic sinusitis with polyps. Twenty five patients (11 woman, 14 man) who underwent endoscopic surgical procedures were included into the study. During the operation, the smear from the maxillary sinus were obt...

ALTHOUGH the role of fungi as ocular pathogens has become more widely recognized (Maddren, 1941; Sykes, 1946; Mendelblatt, 1953; Mitsui and Hanabusa, 1955-; Roberts, 1957; Haggerty and Zimmerman, 1958; Mikami and Stemmermann, 1958; Fine and Zimmerman, 1959; Chick and Conant, 1962; Currie, 1963; Ainley and Smith, 1965; Jelenkiewicz, 1965; Dominiczak, Branicka, and Lewenstam, 1965), relatively li...

In recent years increasing attention has been given to the potential health effects of fungal exposure in indoor environments. We used large-scale sequencing of the fungal internal transcribed spacer region (ITS) of nuclear ribosomal DNA to describe the mycoflora of two office buildings over the four seasons. DNA sequencing was complemented by cultivation, ergosterol determination, and quantita...

DOS Times Vol. 12, No. 9 March, 2007 Endophthalmitis is one of the most vision threatening complication in Ophthalmology. Endophthalmitis refers to inflammatory response caused by infected intraocular tissues/ fluids. The frequency of Endophthalmitis after cataract surgery and trauma varies from 0.07 0.13% and 2.417% respectively in the various reported series.1 Majority of these infections are...