Disease can play an important role in structuring species communities because the effects of disease vary among hosts; some species are driven towards extinction, while others suffer relatively little impact. Why disease impacts vary among host species remains poorly understood for most multi-host pathogens, and factors allowing less-susceptible species to persist could be useful in conserving ...

Cucumber plants subjected to consecutive monoculture for 9 years were found to suffer from severe Fusarium wilt disease, caused by the soil-borne fungus Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. Cucumerinum J. H. Owen. In the present study, greenhouse experiments were performed to evaluate the influence of ammonia gas fumigation on Fusarium wilt suppression, fungal abundance and fungal community composition. R...

background : the aim of this study was to detect fungi in atherosclerotic plaques and investigate their possible role in atherosclerosis. methods : coronary atherosclerotic plaques specimen were obtained from patients with atherosclerosis. direct exami-nation, culture, histopathology study, pcr and sequencing were performed to detect/identify the mycotic elements in the plaques. age, sex, smoki...

A recently published editorial by Dr. Girmenia addressed the difficult issue of preventing invasive fungal disease in hematology patients. The author concluded that several questions remained unanswered concerning the use of secondary antifungal prophylaxis in this setting. We agree with Dr. Girmenia that most previous reports on secondary antifungal prophylaxis were retrospective, uncontrolled...

Bacterial DNA has been found in coronary plaques and it has therefore been concluded that bacteria may play a role as trigger factors in the chronic inflammatory process underlying coronary atherosclerosis. However, the microbial spectrum is complex and it is not known whether microorganisms other than bacteria are involved in coronary disease. Fungal 18S rDNA signatures were systematically inv...

Background: Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis (CPA) is a destructive pulmonary disease caused by fungal infection, frequent complication