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Open AccessRegional Differences in Antifungal Susceptibility of the Prevalent Dermatophyte Trichophyton rubrum
In vitro susceptibility testing for Trichophyton rubrum has shown resistance to terbinafine, azoles and amorolfine, locally, but epidemiological cutoffs are not available. In order to assess the appropriateness o...
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Intraspecific Diversity and Taxonomy of Emmonsia crescens
Emmonsia crescens is known as an environmental pathogen causing adiaspiromycosis in small rodents. As the generic name Emmonsia is no longer available for this species, its taxonomic position is re-evaluated. The...
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Primary Central Nervous System Infection by Histoplasma in an Immunocompetent Adult
Central nervous system (CNS) infection by Histoplasma capsulatum is a rare disease in immunocompromised individuals in endemic areas. About one quarter of cases result from hematogenous dissemination. A 23-year-o...
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Whole-genome resequencing of Trichophyton rubrum provides insights into population differentiation and drug resistance
Trichophyton rubrum (T. rubrum) is anthropophilic fungus and thus a very common cause of dermatophyte infections around the world. Infection of T. rubrum could result in conditions such as tinea capitis, tinea co...
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Molecular Diagnosis of Emmonsia-Like Fungi Occurring in Wild Animals
Using specific primers based on the ribosomal operon, positive DNA amplification was obtained from lungs of 11/215 tested small burrowing animals, both terrestrial and aquatic, and including frozen (n = 4) and fo...
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Correction to: Rapid Identification of Seven Waterborne Exophiala Species by RCA DNA Padlock Probes
The Editorial Office of Mycopathologia reports that several paragraphs of Najafzadeh et al. were transcribed with only minor edits from previously published material by Najafzadeh M.J.
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Open AccessRapid Identification of Seven Waterborne Exophiala Species by RCA DNA Padlock Probes
The black yeast genus Exophiala includes numerous potential opportunistic species that potentially cause systematic and disseminated infections in immunocompetent individuals. Species causing systemic disease hav...
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Extremotolerant rock inhabiting black fungi from Italian monumental sites
A wide sampling for isolating highly destructive and extremotolerant black fungi was performed from Italian monuments in selected historical sites which include the “Cortile della Pigna”, Vatican Museum and th...
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Open AccessThree New Species of the Genus Ochroconis
Ochroconis bacilliformis, O. phaeophora and O. robusta, three novel species of the melanized genus Ochroconis (Sympoventuriaceae, Venturiales), are described, illustrated and distinguishe...
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Emergence of fusarioses in a university hospital in Turkey during a 20-year period
Fusarium species have started appearing increasingly as the main cause of infections, particularly in immunocompromised patients. In this study, we aimed to present the first epidemiologi...
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Open AccessA new species of the oligotrophic genus Ochroconis (Sympoventuriaceae)
Ochroconis globalis, a novel species of the melanized genus Ochroconis (Sympoventuriaceae, Venturiales), is described and illustrated and distinguished phenotypically and molecularly from existin...
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Global ITS diversity in the Sporothrix schenckii complex
Molecular phylogeny has revealed that sporotrichosis is caused by several Sporothrix species which differ in clinical behavior. The complex is embedded within Ophiostoma, a genus mainly comprising fungi that live...
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Cladophialophora abundans, a novel species of Chaetothyriales isolated from the natural environment
A novel species of Cladophialophora is described from the natural environment of the mangrove land crab (Ucides cordatus) along the coast, and from plant sources in Brazil. It is morphologically very similar to C...
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Ecology and phylogeny of black yeast-like fungi: diversity in unexplored habitats
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Multilocus analysis of the Exophiala jeanselmei clade containing black yeasts involved in opportunistic disease in humans
To confirm species delimitations in the ‘jeanselmei-clade’ in the Chaetothyriales, four independent markers were analysed, and phylogenetic trees were reconstructed using different algorithms. Reproductive isolat...
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A multigene phylogeny reveals that Ochroconis belongs to the family Sympoventuriaceae (Venturiales, Dothideomycetes)
Ochroconis is a genus of ascomycete fungi that includes oligotrophic saprobes and some opportunistic species causing infections in vertebrates. The most important of these opportunists is the neu...
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Environmental siblings of black agents of human chromoblastomycosis
Agents of human chromoblastomycosis, a skin disease almost exclusively caused by members of the order Chaetothyriales, are assumed to be traumatically inoculated into the skin with sharp environmental materials s...
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Mountain tips as reservoirs for new rock-fungal entities: Saxomyces gen. nov. and four new species from the Alps
As part of a worldwide sampling nine black fungi were isolated from rocks collected in four distinct sites of the Alps at high altitudes. Based on a nucSSU, nucLSU and mtSSU multi-locus phylogeny, seven of the...
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Taxonomy of Ochroconis, genus including opportunistic pathogens on humans and animals
The genus Ochroconis (Sympoventuriaceae, Venturiales) is revised and currently contains 13 species for which the phylogenetic position has been determined using multilocus sequencing. The older generic name Scole...
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Phylogeny and taxonomy of meristematic rock-inhabiting black fungi in the Dothideomycetes based on multi-locus phylogenies
The last decade has revealed an unexpected fungal diversity associated with natural rocks, often collected in environments influenced by harsh climatic conditions. Yet the phylogenetic affiliations and the tax...
