ISHAM welcomes the Turkish Society of Medical Mycology which was recently affiliated to ISHAM. The society is chaired by Prof. Emel Tümbay, and Prof. Süleyha Hilmioğlu-Polat is General Secretary. We are happy with this new cooperation, and will announce the website soon.

You may have noticed that the logo of the 20st ISHAM Congress is inspired by Vincent van Gogh. If you like his art, there are great possibilities for pre- or post-congress tours to musea in The Netherlands with numerous originals, his working places, and see work of his contemporaries, here.

For those of you who are not yet familiar with the ISHAM Website, we draw your attention to useful features such as the Agenda. At this moment, 27 meetings and courses on medical mycology are listed!

Medical Mycology, vol. 54-4 has appeared and are freely available via your ISHAM login at http://www.isham.org/. For your convenience, we list the contents below.

Mohammad T. Albataineh and David Kadosh
Regulatory roles of phosphorylation in model and pathogenic fungi
Med Mycol (May 2016) 54 (4): 333-352 doi:10.1093/mmy/myv098
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Jesús Guinea, Pilar Escribano, Laura Judith Marcos-Zambrano, Teresa Peláez, Marta Kestler, Patricia Muñoz, Antonio Vena, Fátima López-Fabal, and Emilio Bouza
Therapeutic drug monitoring of voriconazole helps to decrease the percentage of patients with off-target trough serum levels
Med Mycol (May 2016) 54 (4): 353-360 doi:10.1093/mmy/myv099
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Jonathan Dyal, Andrew Akampurira, Joshua Rhein, Bozena M Morawski, Reuben Kiggundu, Henry W Nabeta, Abdu K Musubire, Nathan C Bahr, Darlisha A Williams, Tihana Bicanic, Robert A Larsen, David B Meya, David R Boulware, and on behalf of the ASTRO-CM Trial Team
Editor's Choice: Reproducibility of CSF quantitative culture methods for estimating rate of clearance in cryptococcal meningitis
Med Mycol (May 2016) 54 (4): 361-369 doi:10.1093/mmy/myv104
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Wellington Luiz Ferreira da Silva, Carla Pagliari, Maria Irma Seixas Duarte, and Mirian N. Sotto
Paracoccidioides brasiliensis interacts with dermal dendritic cells and keratinocytes in human skin and oral mucosa lesions
Med Mycol (May 2016) 54 (4): 370-376 doi:10.1093/mmy/myv112
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Siripen Pesee, Chayanit Angkananuwat, Sudarat Tancharoensukjit, Somporn Muanmai, Pattaraporn Sirivan, Manita Bubphawas, and Nissara Tanarerkchai
In vitro activity of Caspofungin combined with Fluconazole on mixed Candida albicans and Candida glabrata biofilm
Med Mycol (May 2016) 54 (4): 384-393 doi:10.1093/mmy/myv108
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Musang Liu, Nan Zheng, Dongmei Li, Hailin Zheng, Lili Zhang, Hu Ge, and Weida Liu
cyp51A-based mechanism of azole resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus: Illustration by a new 3D Structural Model of Aspergillus fumigatus CYP51A protein
Med Mycol (May 2016) 54 (4): 400-408 doi:10.1093/mmy/myv102
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Olivier Matray, Abdelmounaim Mouhajir, Sandrine Giraud, Charlotte Godon, Gilles Gargala, Franck Labbé, Amandine Rougeron, Jean-Jacques Ballet, Rachid Zouhair, Jean-Philippe Bouchara, and Loïc Favennec
Semi-automated repetitive sequence-based PCR amplification for species of the Scedosporium apiospermum complex
Med Mycol (May 2016) 54 (4): 409-419 doi:10.1093/mmy/myv080
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Nalu Teixeira de Aguiar Peres, Larissa Gomes da Silva, Rodrigo da Silva Santos, Tiago Rinaldi Jacob, Gabriela Felix Persinoti, Lenaldo Branco Rocha, Juliana Pfrimer Falcão, Antonio Rossi, and Nilce Maria Martinez-Rossi
In vitro and ex vivo infection models help assess the molecular aspects of the interaction of Trichophyton rubrum with the host milieu
Med Mycol (May 2016) 54 (4): 420-427 doi:10.1093/mmy/myv113
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Carline Longhi, Jussevania Pereira Santos, Alexandre Tadachi Morey, Priscyla Daniely Marcato, Nelson Durán, Phileno Pinge-Filho, Gerson Nakazato, Sueli Fumie Yamada-Ogatta, and Lucy Megumi Yamauchi
Combination of fluconazole with silver nanoparticles produced by Fusarium oxysporum improves antifungal effect against planktonic cells and biofilm of drug-resistant Candida albicans
Med Mycol (May 2016) 54 (4): 428-432 doi:10.1093/mmy/myv036
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Yasunori Muraosa, Takahito Toyotome, Maki Yahiro, Akira Watanabe, Maria Aparecida Shikanai-Yasuda, and Katsuhiko Kamei
Detection of Histoplasma capsulatum from clinical specimens by cycling probe-based real-time PCR and nested real-time PCR
Med Mycol (May 2016) 54 (4): 433-438 doi:10.1093/mmy/myv106
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Kazuya Tone, Yoshiko Umeda, and Koichi Makimura
Cross-reactivity in Cryptococcus antigen latex agglutination test in two commercial kits
Med Mycol (May 2016) 54 (4): 439-443 doi:10.1093/mmy/myv115
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