BACKGROUND: Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa with a high rate of tuberculosis and a moderate HIV infection burden. Cutaneous and mucosal fungal infections are reported from Nigeria but there are few reports of serious fungal infections. METHODS: A literature search was done to identify all epidemiology papers reporting fungal infection rates from Nigeria. We used specific populati...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW This review summarizes the fungal diagnostic measures currently available for use in paediatric patients at high risk for developing invasive fungal disease (IFD) and those suspected of having an IFD. The clinical utility of each test is described based on reported performances of individual tests in specific paediatric populations. RECENT FINDINGS Available studies in the p...

The expansive use of immunosuppressive medications in fields such as transplantational medicine and oncology, the higher frequency of invasive procedures in an ageing population and the HIV/AIDS pandemic have increased the frequency of systemic fungal infections. At the same time, increased resistance of pathogenic fungi to classical antifungal agents has led to sustained research efforts targe...

Powdery mildew, net blotch, scald, spot barley stripe, and leaf rust are important foliar fungal pathogens of barley. Fungal negatively affect the yield quality in plant. Virulence changes, which can occur various ways, may render resistant plants to susceptible ones. Factors such as mutation, population size random genetic drift, gene genotype flow, reproduction mating systems, selection impos...

the incidence of nosocomial fungal infections has increased dramatically during the past two decades as the consequence of continuous increase in the number of severely immunocompromised patients. this study was done to determine the presumptive sources of nosocomial fungal infections at the intensive care unit and transplant wards (in a university- based teaching hospital in tehran) during a 1...

introduction basidiobolomycosis is a rare disease that, unlike other fungal infections, affects immunocompetent individuals. it is caused by an environmental saprophyte named the fungus basidiobolus ranarum. basidiobolomycosis usually appears as a subcutaneous infection. gi basidiobolomycosis is an emerging disease, and the colon is the most frequent involved part of the gi tract. case presenta...

In tropical countries such as Brazil, there is not enough information about microbial contaminants in indoor environments with air conditioning systems. Microbial monitoring of such environments is important for the quality of human life. The aim of this work was to assess the fungal genera and bacterial morphotypes occurring in such environments. Air samples were taken indoors and outdoors fro...

Fungal sensitization in patients with asthma often indicates an unusual disease course in which traditional asthma treatments have little effect and in which morbidity is particularly severe. Airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR), inflammatory infiltrates, smooth muscle hyperplasia, and irreversible fibrotic remodeling of the bronchial architecture are features of allergic fungal asthma. The systemi...

Let us know how access to this document benefits you. Abstract Mosses display a number of hallmark life history traits that influence their ecology at the population and community level. The long lived separation of sexes observed in the haploid gametophyte (dioicy) is one such feature of particular importance, as it is observed in the majority of bryophytes and creates intraspecific specializa...