normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background: invasive fungal infections cause considerable morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised hosts. pigeon droppings could especially be a potential carrier in the spread of pathogenic yeasts and mold fungi into the environment. the objective of this study was to isolation of cryptococcus neoformans and other opportunistic fungi from pigeo...

The appearance of colonies on the chromogenic medium CHROMagar Candida combined with observation of morphology on corn meal-Tween 80 agar was used for the identification of 353 clinical yeast isolates. The results were compared with those obtained with API yeast identification kits. The accuracy of identification and the turnaround time were equivalent for each method, and our cultural method w...

BACKGROUND Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) allows rapid and accurate identification of clinical yeast isolates. In-tube formic acid/acetonitrile (FA/ACN) extraction is recommended prior to the analysis with MALDI Biotyper, but the direct on-plate FA extraction is simpler. We compared the Biotyper with the VITEK MS for the identificatio...

Drug discovery is a complex process that includes the identification of biological targets as well as the identification of leads that aim at altering or inhibiting the function of a particular target. The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has long been recognized as a valuable model organism for studies of eukaryotic cells since many of the basic cellular processes between yeast and human...

onychomycosis due to the yeast and yeast-like fungi was investigated among the 147 patient who refered to the mycology laboratory of school of public health during the period of 11 months. the isolated yeasts and yeast-like fungi were examined by api auxanogram methed. the distribution of isolated microorganisms were c. tropicalis 10(7.4%), c.guillioimondii & (5.9%) cases and one case of each o...