the asexual form of , is a Scedosporium apiospermum, Pseudallescheria boydii filamentous, opportunistic fungus which can be found in environmental sources all over the world. It is a human pathogen mostly associated with lung, bone and joint infections and less frequently with infections of the central nervous system (CNS). The latter is generally related to the patient’s immune state, and occu...

The in vitro antifungal activities of SCH56592, MK-0991, and LY303366 against 83 isolates of Acremonium strictum, Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus fumigatus, Aspergillus terreus, Bipolaris spp., Blastomyces dermatitidis, Cladophialophora bantiana, Fusarium oxysporum, Fusarium solani, Histoplasma capsulatum, Phialophora spp., Pseudallescheria boydii, Rhizopus arrhizus, Scedosporium prolificans, a...

BACKGROUND Patients with hematologic malignancies and a history of an invasive fungal infection are considered to be at high risk of suffering reactivation of the infection during subsequent intensive chemotherapy. PATIENTS AND METHODS From January 1993 to September 1996, nine patients with a hematologic malignancy and previous invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) or Pseudallescheria boydii...

While Shigella boydii serotypes have been reported on numerous occasions from many parts of the world (Weil and Saphra, 1953), they rarely have comprised more than a small proportion of the total number of Shigella found, and knowledge of their distribution, cultural characteristics, immunological relationships and pathogenicity is incomplete in some respects. This is particularly true of the m...

Aspergillus fumigatus is a cosmopolitan saprotrophic fungus that is second only to Candida species as a cause of invasive fungal infections in immunocompromised humans. Current immunodiagnostic tests for invasive aspergillosis (IA) are based on the detection of circulating galactomannan (GM) in a patient's serum by using a rat monoclonal antibody (MAb), EB-A2, that binds to tetra (1-->5)-beta-D...

The antifungal activity of BMS-207147 (also known as ER-30346) was compared to those of itraconazole and fluconazole against 250 strains of fungi representing 44 fungal species. MICs were determined by using the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS)-recommended broth macrodilution method for yeasts, which was modified for filamentous fungi. BMS-207147 was about two- to fo...

The in vitro antifungal activities of SCH56592, MK-0991, and LY303366 against 83 isolates of Acremonium strictum, Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus fumigatus, Aspergillus terreus, Bipolaris spp., Blastomyces dermatitidis, Cladophialophora bantiana, Fusarium oxysporum, Fusarium solani, Histoplasma capsulatum, Phialophora spp., Pseudallescheria boydii, Rhizopus arrhizus, Scedosporium prolificans, a...

SIR—We read with great interest the report by Raguin et al. [1] on Shigella boydii as a possible causative agent of colonic malacoplakia in an HIV-infected patient. In the absence of positive cultures, S. boydii was identified by means of universal bacterial 16S rDNA–based amplification and sequencing. Since malacoplakia is usually caused by Escherichia coli, a close relative of shigellae and g...

The differentiation between Shigella subspecies, and the phylogenetic position of Shigella clones within Escherichia coli clones was determined by analysis of restriction fragment length polymorphisms of rDNA (ribotyping). Seventy-five Shigella strains belonging to the four subspecies and 13 enteroinvasive E. coli (EIEC) strains were compared with the 72 E. coli strains of the ECOR collection, ...