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Cryptococcosis was diagnosed in an immunosuppressed patient. Topical treatment was ineffective and treatment with oral itraconazole was started. The lesion improved. Liver enzymes were monitored and, although their levels were raised before the start of itraconazole therapy, they did not increase further during treatment.
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Cryptococcosis , Dermatomycoses , Hepatitis, Chronic/drug therapy , Immunocompromised Host , Adolescent , Antifungal Agents/therapeutic use , Cellulitis/diagnosis , Cryptococcosis/diagnosis , Cryptococcosis/drug therapy , Cryptococcosis/immunology , Dermatomycoses/diagnosis , Dermatomycoses/drug therapy , Dermatomycoses/immunology , Diagnosis, Differential , Female , Hepatitis, Chronic/immunology , Humans , Immunosuppressive Agents/therapeutic use , Itraconazole/therapeutic useABSTRACT
Reportamos el hallazgo de dos casos de lesiones ungueales de manos, en las que se encontró una asociatión poco frecuente de agentes microbianos: Candida tropicalis y Pseudomonas aeruginosa como causantes de las patologías. Informamos el aislamiento e identificación de ambos microorganismos. Consideramos que es importante realizar la búsqueda, en los materiales provenientes de uñas, no sólo de los agentes fúngicos sino también de los bacterianos, para poder encarar un tratamiento adecuado
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Middle Aged , Humans , Female , Onychomycosis/microbiology , Candida/isolation & purification , Pseudomonas aeruginosa/isolation & purificationABSTRACT
Reportamos el hallazgo de dos casos de lesiones ungueales de manos, en las que se encontró una asociatión poco frecuente de agentes microbianos: Candida tropicalis y Pseudomonas aeruginosa como causantes de las patologías. Informamos el aislamiento e identificación de ambos microorganismos. Consideramos que es importante realizar la búsqueda, en los materiales provenientes de uñas, no sólo de los agentes fúngicos sino también de los bacterianos, para poder encarar un tratamiento adecuado (AU)
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Middle Aged , Humans , Female , Onychomycosis/microbiology , Candida/isolation & purification , Pseudomonas aeruginosa/isolation & purificationABSTRACT
Se comunica un caso de endoftalmitis micótica del ojo izquierdo en un paciente de 18 años, que había sufrido una herida perforante en ese ojo con posterior tratamiento antibiótico y corticoídeo. Del material de la cámara anterior del ojo, se aisló Aspergillus nidulans. El paciente fue tratado con natamicina y evolucionó favorablemente
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Adolescent , Humans , Male , Aspergillus nidulans/ultrastructure , Eye Diseases , MycosesABSTRACT
Se comunica un caso de endoftalmitis micótica del ojo izquierdo en un paciente de 18 años, que había sufrido una herida perforante en ese ojo con posterior tratamiento antibiótico y corticoídeo. Del material de la cámara anterior del ojo, se aisló Aspergillus nidulans. El paciente fue tratado con natamicina y evolucionó favorablemente (AU)
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Adolescent , Humans , Male , Aspergillus nidulans/ultrastructure , Eye Diseases , MycosesABSTRACT
Madurella grisea has been isolated from a Madura foot with black grains. The fungi classification was made based on the macro and micro-morphology characteristics of the culture. Difficulties with the interpretation of biochemistry tests were analyzed. The study is completed with trials of in vitro sensibility for different antifungal agents.
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Foot Dermatoses/microbiology , Mitosporic Fungi/classification , Mycetoma/microbiology , Adult , Culture Media , Humans , Male , Microbial Sensitivity Tests , Mitosporic Fungi/drug effects , Mitosporic Fungi/metabolism , TemperatureABSTRACT
A mycotic keratitis case which was caused by Curvularia lunata var. aeria in a patient with an injury in the eye is described. The diagnosis was based on the mycologic analysis of several samples taken from the ulcer of cornea. In vitro tests of the sensitivity of the isolated species to several antifungal drugs were made. The results were related to the response in vivo to the treatment.
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Cornea/pathology , Keratitis/microbiology , Mitosporic Fungi/isolation & purification , Mycoses/microbiology , Aged , Eye Injuries/complications , Humans , Keratitis/pathology , Male , Miconazole/pharmacology , Mitosporic Fungi/drug effects , Mycoses/pathology , Natamycin/pharmacology , Nystatin/pharmacologyABSTRACT
Colonies of Trichophyton ajelloi, geophilic dermatophyte that was here obtained for the first time as a dermatophytosis etiological agent, was isolated from a lesion fixed in the upper zone of the left cheek bone in the face of a six years old girl.
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Dermatomycoses/microbiology , Tinea/microbiology , Trichophyton/isolation & purification , Child , Face , Female , Humans , Spores, Fungal/isolation & purification , Trichophyton/cytology , ZygomaABSTRACT
IN THIS PAPER, WE PRESENT STATISTICS ON DERMATOMYCOSES DIAGNOSED IN 14,672 SAMPLES FROM VARIOUS MATERIALS PROCESSED IN THE HUMAN MYCOLOGY LABORATORY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES OF THE SCHOOL OF BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES IN ROSARIO
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Dermatomycoses , Mycoses , ArgentinaABSTRACT
By using the double pour plate method, Yeasts Extract Agar (YE) which contained a high concentration of chloramphenicol-streptomycin sulfate and cycloheximide,, and by inoculating mice intraperitoneally, we succeed in the isolation of different strains of Coccidicides immitis from 12 samples of the soils collected in the province of San Luis and from 1 of the province of Mendoza (Argentina), a 70% of the samples turned out positive. Identification of the strains was based on macro- and micro-morphology of the colonies, pathogenicity for mice and the capacity to transform in shaked cultures.
