The inhibitory action of sodium azide (NaN8) on the growth of bacteria was first reported by Schattenfroh (1896). Apparently no further work of this nature was published until 1937. In the past few years several contributions have appeared dealing with the effects of NaN3 on microorganisms, but, so far as the writers can determine, these studies have not included the filamentous fungi. A famili...

paecilomyces sp . are saprophytic fungi, which have rarely been pathogen for human. herein, we report a case of cutaneous infection with paecilomyces lilacinus with unusual presentations in a healthy young woman. a biopsy provided an initial diagnosis of fungal elements in the tissue. multiple positive fungal cultures were obtained from the biopsied tissue. microscopic and macroscopic examinati...

Members of the sooty blotch and flyspeck (SBFS) complex are epiphytic fungi in the Ascomycota that cause economically damaging blemishes of apples worldwide. SBFS fungi are polyphyletic, but approx. 96% of SBFS species are in the Capnodiales. Evolutionary origins of SBFS fungi remain unclear, so we attempted to infer their origins by means of ancestral state reconstruction on a phylogenetic tre...

SIR, Patients with kidney fai lure who are on maintenance hemodialysis are more frequently at risk of opportunistic fungal infections. Infection is the most common cause of death in patients with acute kidney failure.1,2 These patients have also limited urinary excretion that makes them susceptible to infectious diseases. One of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing...

Background and Purpose: Soil is the main habitat of saprophytic and pathogenic fungi. Mucormycetes are one of the most parts of soil fungi and certain members are among opportunistic fungi and can cause systemic fungal infections in immunocompromised patients. The majority of human and animal infections are caused by members of the genera Rhizopus, Mucor, Rhizomucor, Lichtheimia (Absidia), Cunn...