BACKGROUND Onychomycosis is a fungal infection of the nails caused in most cases by dermatophytes Trichophyton rubrum and Trichophyton mentagrophytes. Despite numerous available antifungal drugs for therapy of this infection, the cure rate is low, with high rates of relapse after treatment and side effects. OBJECTIVES To present a new option for the treatment of onychomycosis, in search of a ...

BACKGROUND Onychomycosis accounts for up to 50% of all nail disorders. They can be caused by: yeasts, dermatophytes and non-dermatophyte moulds. OBJECTIVES AND METHODS A multicentre study designed to determine the prevalence, mycological test results, aetiological agents, and clinical presentation of onychomycosis was carried out. All fingernail and toenail samples taken during a one year per...

The common cause of skin infections are dermatophytes and opportunistic fungi. The prevalence of dermatophyte infection varies with different geographic area and climatic conditions. This study was undertaken to study the clinical pattern and the etiological agents of dermatophyte infections. Clinical samples from 100 patients were subjected to microscopic examination and culture on various med...

Viral folliculitis is a rare disease usually caused by herpes simplex, herpes zoster and molluscum contagiosum in immune-compromised patients. An otherwise healthy 30 year old patient without history of herpes simplex contracted a folliculitis in the beard region after a flu-like illness. He had no oral or labial lesions but instead showed a crusty erythematous folliculitis confined to the bear...

Terbinafine is an allylamine antifungal agent. Its severe cutaneous adverse effects are rare, but toxic epidermal necrolysis, pustular drug eruption, acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, and erythema multiforme had been reported. Terbinafine was also reported to induce flare-up of chronic psoriasis or development of pustular psoriasis. Here we report a psoriatic...

Data on mycoses known to be imported into the United Kingdom are sparse. Estimates on the prevalence of fungal infections have to be based on indirect and incomplete figures, obtained from isolation figures and reports of individual cases to co-ordinating centres such as the Mycological Reference Laboratory and the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre of the Public Health Laboratory Service...

Despite the relative frequency of opportunistic fungal infections among hemodialysis patients, the reservoirs for these microorganisms in the environment remain unknown, although some recent studies have made correlations with the water supply as their source. The objective of the present study was to monitor the mycological quality of the water system of a hemodialysis unit in the interior of ...

Data on mycoses known to be imported into the United Kingdom are sparse. Estimates on the prevalence of fungal infections have to be based on indirect and incomplete figures, obtained from isolation figures and reports of individual cases to co-ordinating centres such as the Mycological Reference Laboratory and the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre of the Public Health Laboratory Service...

The present paper gives an account of ethno-mycological and traditional knowledge about the seven edible species of Termitomyces viz., T. microcarpus, T. radicatus, T. badius, T. medius, T. heimii, T. striatus and T. mammiformis, 3 Macrolepiota species namely Macrolepiota procera, M. dolichaula and M. rachodes mushrooms which are frequently hunted by local people of North West India during mons...

The aim of the present investigation was to check natural aflatoxin contamination and aflatoxigenic potential of Aspergillus flavus strains isolated from chilgoza pine nuts. Fifty eight samples of chilgoza pine nuts, randomly purchased from retail shops and local markets of different locations of Jammu, were subjected to mycological analysis for isolation of Aspergillus flavus isolates using st...