The feasibility of using fluorescein-conjugated lectins to visualize and differentiate three fungi commonly involved in ophthalmic mycoses was evaluated. Using a panel of fluorescein-conjugated lectins, Candida albicans, Aspergillus fumigatus, and Fusarium solani were rapidly and reproducibly visualized in in vitro culture isolates, as well as in tissue samples and fixed histopathologic specime...

Human mycoses represent infections with an increasing incidence and location due to the increasing number of favourable factors of occurrence such as prolonged and intensive antibiotic therapy, cytostatic therapy, corticosteroid therapy and suppressed immunity. Our study led to important conclusions regarding the incidence of different mycoses among different groups of age and between the two s...

Objective: To study the mycoses in HIV patients hospitalized infectious diseases department of CHU YO (Yalgado Ouédraogo) Patients and method: This was a retrospective carried out SMIT CHU-YO over period ten years from January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2019. Results: During 145 cases mycosis were diagnosed living with HIV. The average age 42±11 years. sex ratio 0.64. On admission, majority (71.54...

Mycotic infections are traditionally considered to be markers of immunodeficiency, however, primary mycoses develop even in immunocompetent individuals. Etiological agents mycoses, which, according the nomenclature adopted Russian Federation, classified as particularly dangerous, micromycetes group II pathogenicity genera Coccidioides, Histoplasma, Paracoccidioides, Blastomyces. Particularly da...

Fungal infections are more common and diverse in the tropics but are also increasingly seen in returning travelers and migrants as international travel becomes easier. They are conventionally classified into superficial, cutaneous, subcutaneous, and systemic mycoses. This article provides an overview of superficial, cutaneous, and subcutaneous mycoses that are more prevalent and/or geographical...

Twenty-three cases of deep mycoses were histologically diagnosed in 6500 surgical biopsy specimens examined during a three year period (1985-1988) in the Department of Pathology, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Nigeria. These included 12 cases of African histoplasmosis, four of mycetoma, four of actinomycetoma, two of paranasal aspergilloma, and one of zygomycosis due to Conid...

Besides the remarkable progress which has been made in the laboratory diagnosis of mycoses, there is still a need for an affordable diagnostic procedure which would allow the rapid diagnosis of deep seated mycoses which may be life threatening in compromised patients and are often difficult to treat. A step forward to alleviate this situation was the introduction of the optical brighteners into...

This book is an attempt to prove that there are certain conditions of enlarged spleen due to mycotic fungi. The evidence put forward by the writer is extremely weak, although he states that he has cultivated a Nocardia fungus which he has named Nocardia splenica. In support of his views, he quotes Professor Nanta's work on the same subject, but it is certain that Nanta's cases were due to an As...