The aim of the presented mini-review is to review the literature data referring to opportunistic mycoses in pet dogs and cats suffering from other concurrent diseases, comparable to human medical disorders with high risk of secondary mycoses. This review also presents the preliminary results of a project aimed at understanding the fungal colonization and occurrence of secondary mycoses in pets ...

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...

Among diseases of horses caused by fungi (=mycoses), dermatophytosis, cryptococcosis and aspergillosis are of particular concern, due their worldwide diffusion and, for some of them, zoonotic potential. Conversely, other mycoses such as subcutaneous (i.e., pythiosis and mycetoma) or deep mycoses (i.e., blastomycosis and coccidioidomycosis) are rare, and/or limited to restricted geographical are...

Moulds exist widely in nature and because of their ability to catabolise or synthesise certain complex organic substances some are used in industries such as food, brewing, and drug manufacture as raw material or catalysts. In addition, some pathogenic moulds may live and reproduce in fur, straws, wood, grain, and dusts. In recent years there has been a real increase in the number of patients s...

Subcutaneous mycoses include a heterogeneous group of fungal infections that develop at the site of transcutaneous trauma. Infection slowly evolves as the etiologic agent survives and adapts to the adverse host tissue environment. Diagnosis rests on clinical presentation, histopathology, and culture of the etiologic agents. This article considers sporotrichosis, chromoblastomycosis, and mycetoma.

Fungi are schematically responsible for three distinct kinds of infections: superficial mycoses, subcutaneous and deep ones. The current socio-epidemiological transition observed in sub-Saharan Africa does not actually lead to similar consequences regarding these three categories of fungal entities. For instance, it has long been known that superficial mycoses are very prevalent in tropical are...