Medical mycology as part of medical microbiology is advancing rapidly. Effective therapeutic strategies are already available in chemotherapy and are being further developed. Their application requires reliable laboratory diagnostic techniques, which, in turn, result from mycological basic research. Opportunistic mycoses vary greatly in their clinical and pathological symptoms, because the unde...

Medical mycology as part of medical microbiology is advancing rapidly. Effective therapeutic strategies are already available in chemotherapy and are being further developed. Their application requires reliable laboratory diagnostic techniques, which, in turn, result from mycological basic research. Opportunistic mycoses vary greatly in their clinical and pathological symptoms, because the unde...

Deaths caused by systemic mycoses such as paracoccidioidomycosis, cryptococcosis, histoplasmosis, candidiasis, aspergillosis, coccidioidomycosis and zygomycosis amounted to 3,583 between 1996-2006 in Brazil. When analysed as the underlying cause of death, paracoccidioidomycosis represented the most important cause of deaths among systemic mycoses (approximately 51.2%). When considering AIDS as ...

OBJECTIVES The symptoms of fungal infections vary from minor to severe. According to recent reports, fungal infection prevalence is increasing due to increases in the aging population and in patients with compromised immune systems. However, the total prevalence of fungal infections in South Korea is unknown. We investigated the recent 5-year prevalence of each type of fungal infection in South...

mycoses. In the reviewer's opinion the best papers are those dealing with: recent applications of immunological techniques in the diagnosis of deep mycoses; radiologic patterns of the deep mycoses; mode of action and biologic activity of antifungal antibiotics; and clinical application and side effects of antifungal agents. Clinicians will find these papers to be most helpful. Although anyone a...

Introduction The first, and in many cases the greatest, problem in the correct clinical management of mycoses is their recognition. In general, delay in the diagnosis of mycoses results primarily from failure to consider that a fungal or actinomycetous infection may be the cause of a patient's symptoms. In this respect the problem is a commonplace one, not confined to mycoses: its solution lies...