A 52-year-old male, with diabetes mellitus and alcoholic liver disease, presented to the Emergency Room for right flank pain of 3 days' duration, associated with dysuria. Physical examination revealed right flank tenderness with fever and hypotension; laboratory findings showed acute kidney injury and large blood and leucocytes in the urine. A CT abdomen and pelvis showed hydronephrosis of the ...

The activities of two enzymes, a 168-kDa protein and a 40-kDa protein, OmtA, purified from the filamentous fungus Aspergillus parasiticus were reported to convert the aflatoxin pathway intermediate sterigmatocystin to O-methylsterigmatocystin in vitro. Our initial goal was to determine if OmtA is necessary and sufficient to catalyze this reaction in vivo and if this reaction is necessary for af...

The interaction of Cryptococcus neoformans with the murine macrophage-like cell line J774.16 was studied in the presence and absence of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) to the capsular polysaccharide glucuronoxylomannan (GXM). In the absence of MAb 2H1 to GXM, coincubation of J774.16 cells with C. neoformans reduced fungal colony-forming units in only 26.6% of 21 independent experiments. In the pre...

A 38-year-old male presented with cough and dyspnea for approximately one month. He had a past medical history of hypertension, end-stage renal disease secondary to unspecified glomerulonephritis, and living-donor renal transplant 15 years ago. He had no history of exposure to tobacco or occupational toxins. His blood tests revealed increased serum creatinine (3.0 mg/dL), normal phosphate (4.0 ...

The aim of this work was to assess OchratoxinA (OTA) production of different Aspergillus carbonarius isolates, evaluate their growth profile through different growth measurements, and reveal any underlying correlation between them. Ten different isolates of A. carbonarius isolated from Greek vineyards located in different geographical regions were examined in vitro for their OTA production pote...

System security issue has been worried as of late, the expectation of system security circumstance can guarantee the wellbeing of system, and subsequently the use of fluffy nonpartisan system on it is concentrated on top to bottom. To begin with, the casing of anticipating arrangement of system security circumstance is outlined; Second, the fundamental hypothesis of fluffy impartial system is e...

PURPOSE To report a case of Candida albicans endophthalmitis with no identifiable predisposing risk factors. CASE REPORT A 57-year-old male presented with a 3-day history of worsening floaters and reduced visual acuity. Fundoscopy and optical coherence tomography showed presence of fluffy white preretinal and intraretinal infiltrates. With no past medical history or evidence of immunosuppress...

While mat A and mat a wild types or other fertile strains of known mating type can be used to determine the mating type of segregants or newly acquired strains, the highly fertile aconidiate mutant fluffy (fl) is superior to wild type when used as the female parent in tests. fluffy strains form abundant perithecia more quickly and the perithecia are more readily observed, especially in small sl...

Given the two sentences “this fake cat has a fluffy tail” and “this tabby cat has a fluffy tail”, only the second allows one to conclude that “there exists a cat that has a fluffy tail”. As is obvious to a native English speaker, the adjective (A) “fake” somehow modifies the noun (N) “cat” such that we conclude that it no longer belongs to the set of N (cats) by virtue of being A (fake). Lingui...

A computer model of the fungal colony that grew consuming limited amount of nutrient with three control parameters, growth rate, and nutrient level and diffusion, was constructed to make a basic morphology diagram of mycelial colony. To apply the diagram with those parameters to the mycelial growth of Aspergillus nidulans wild and mutant strains, the relation between the colony expansion and th...