Book Review: Systemic Mycoses

Systemic Mycoses

I was particularly hopeful that a more illuminating discussion of the application of lasers to medicine would be given in Chapter 6. The topics involved are: Eye Surgery (primarily welding of detached retinas), Lasers in Dentistry, and Lasers and Skin (treatment of skin cancers). There are also brief sections on "Protecting the Eye" and use of lasers in "Medical and Biological Research." Here a...

Antifungal Susceptibility Testing for Systemic Mycoses

Introduction Compared to antibacterial drugs, antimicrobial agents available for treatment of invasive fungal infections are sparse. Amphotericin B (polyene) was the first drug introduced in the 1950s, followed by flucytosine (pyrimidine) in the 1970s, and first-generations azoles (fluconazole, itraconazole) in the 1990s. Triazoles (voriconazole, posaconalzole) and echinocandins (caspofungin, m...

Steroid-binding receptors in fungi: implication for systemic mycoses

It has been shown that some of the mycotic infections especially systemic mycoses show increased male susceptibility and some steroids have been known to influence the immune response. Researchers found that some fungi including yeasts use "message molecules" including hormones to elicit certain responses, especially in the sexual cycle, but until recently no evidence was available to...

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