Background: Chukar partridge (Alectoris chukar) is raised for its highly nutritional and relatively expensive meat. Aims: This study evaluates selected lymphoid organs of juvenile and peripubertal Chukar partridges using a histomorphometric approach. Methods: Thirty one-day-old male and female Chukar partridges were included in the stu...

Candidiasis is defined as an infection or disease caused by a fungus of the genus Candida. Rate of disseminated candidiasis increases with the growth of the number of immunocompromised patients. In the the last few decades the incidence of disseminated candidiasis is in growth as well as the mortality rate. The aim of this survey is to show the importance of serological tests implementation in ...

IntroductionThe number of fungal infections occurring each year in Austria is not known. We have estimated these based on populations at risk, supplemented with existing dataMethodsAll published epidemiology papers reporting fungal infection rates from Austria were identifiedResultsOf the 8.22M population, 14.5% are children (0-14 years) and 18% of population are >65 yea...

arsenic is a carcinogenic and toxicant element widely found in the environment and might be part of causation web of oesophageal cancer (oc), which has one of the highest incidence rates in golestan province, northeast iran. in this pilot study, we collected 10 sheep tail (donbeh) and 9 mixed spices samples, as widely consumed foods in the region, from main counties in the province and analyzed...

BACKGROUND Candidiasis is commonly observed in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), but the clinical risk factors associated with its presence have not been fully investigated. In this study, we aimed to analyse the incidence, risk factors, and transplantation-free survival in primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) patients with persistent biliary candidiasis. METHODS We retrospe...

Invasive fungal infections are difficult to eradicate especially in immuno-compromised host. Amphotericin B and voriconazole have been the mainstay of treatment but both have significant toxicity. Caspofungin belongs to a new class of antifungal agents, the echinocandins. It acts on the fungal cell wall by selective inhibition of beta-(1,3)-D-glucan syntheses, which is not present in mammalian ...

INTRODUCTION This study aimed to examine the incidence, epidemiology, and clinical characteristics of symptomatic and asymptomatic candidiasis in a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), and to determine the risk factors associated with symptomatic candidiasis. METHODS This retrospective study included 67 patients from a 7-bed PICU in a tertiary care hospital that had Candida-positive cultures...

Acquisition and loss rates and estimates of duration of oral and vaginal Candida species colonization and candidiasis were examined among 868 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-seropositive and 437 at-risk HIV-seronegative women monitored prospectively during 1993-1999. Colonization and candidiasis acquisition rates, both oral and vaginal, were significantly higher among HIV-seropositive women;...

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...

OBJECTIVE To estimate for the first time the burden of fungal infections in Romania. METHODS Data derived from the World Health Organization (WHO), National Institute of Statistics, Romanian public health agencies and non-profit health organizations, and published annual reports on local epidemiology were used in the present study. When no data were available, specific at-risk populations wer...