ISHAM NEWS! (19-08-2010)
Dear ,
a new sequence-based identification tool has been put
online by the Molecular Research Laboratory in Sydney, Australia, see here.
This database uses ITS barcodes and particularly focuses on medically important
fungi. Sequences deposited are validated by type-strains and therefore
provide more reliable identification of less-known fungi than GenBank. This
adds to similar databases made available by CBS (here),
or focusing on special groups such as Trichoderma (here)
or Fusarium (here).
A Working Group proposal will soon be submitted to ISHAM with the aim to
coordinate the barcoding activities.
The Department of Biological Sciences of Youngstown State
University, Ohio, U.S.A. has a vacancy for a postdoc to work on the
molecular biology of dimorphism in Penicillium marneffei, see info here.
Further details can be obtained from Chester Cooper, crcooper01@ysu.edu.
The ISHAM-affiliated Mycology Study Group (MSG)
invites you to a 2010 ICAAC Reception and Business Meeting which will be held
on Monday evening, September 13, 2010, from 5:45-7:30 PM at the Seaport Hotel
(#13 on the ICAAC map). Registration and a light snack will be available
in the “Lighthouse Ballroom”, located on the Plaza level of the Seaport Hotel,
with the business meeting to follow. The main purpose of the
business meeting is to provide updates for ongoing MSG studies and to review
other related MSG activities. An agenda for the meeting can be found here,
and a map is placed here for your convenience.
The new MSG Newsletter (Summer 2010) has appeared and is
now available here
at the Working Group area of the ISHAM website.
The International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS)
will organize next congress in Sapporo, Japan, September 2011. The bacteriology
and mycology sessions will be 6-11 September, and virology will be one week
later. For general info, see the website at here.
The new issue of Medical Mycology (48-5) has been published
and is freely available in your ISHAM member area. For your convenience we list
the contents below:
Development of
murine models of disseminated infection by Neoscytalidium dimidiatum
Mery
Ruíz-Cendoya, Hugo
Madrid, F.
Javier Pastor, Emilio
Mayayo, Marçal
Mariné, Josep
Guarro
Medical Mycology
Aug 2010, Vol. 48, No. 5: 681–686. |
L-DOPA accessibility in culture medium increases melanin
expression and virulence of Sporothrix schenckii yeast cells
Pedro
Antônio Castelo Teixeira, Rafaela
Alves De Castro, Fernanda
Rodrigues Lanzana Ferreira, Marcel
M. Lyra Cunha, Armando
Pérez Torres, Carla
Verônica Loureiro Y. Penha, Sonia
Rozental, Leila
M. Lopes-Bezerra
Medical Mycology Aug 2010, Vol. 48, No. 5: 687–695. |
Rhinocladiella aquaspersa, proven agent of verrucous skin infection and a novel type of
chromoblastomycosis
H.
Badali, A.
Bonifaz, T.
Barrón-Tapia, D.
Vázquez-González, L.
Estrada-Aguilar, N.
M. Cavalcante Oliveira, J.
F. Sobral Filho, J.
Guarro, J.
F. G. M. Meis, G.
S. De Hoog
Medical Mycology Aug 2010, Vol. 48, No. 5: 696–703. |
Immunomodulatory effects of antifungal agents on the response of
human monocytic cells to Aspergillus fumigatus conidia
Jung-Hyun
Choi, Eun-Young
Kwon, Chul-Min
Park, Su-Mi
Choi, Dong-Gun
Lee, Jin-Hong
Yoo, Wan-Shik
Shin, David
A. Stevens
Medical Mycology Aug 2010, Vol. 48, No. 5: 704–709.
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Evaluation of the VITEK 2 system to test the susceptibility of Candida spp., Trichosporon asahii and Cryptococcus neoformans to
amphotericin B, flucytosine, fluconazole and voriconazole: a comparison with
the M27-A3 reference method
MA
Trinidad González Cejudo, Auxiliadora
González Gallego, Emilia
Cantón Lacasa, Ana
Isabel Aller, Ana
Romero, Javier
Pemán García, Guillermo
Quindós Andrés, Estrella
Martín-Mazuelos
Medical Mycology Aug 2010, Vol. 48, No. 5: 710–719.
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Cunninghamella bertholletiae exhibits increased resistance to human neutrophils with or
without antifungal agents as compared to Rhizopus spp.
Maria
Simitsopoulou, Elpiniki
Georgiadou, Thomas
J. Walsh, Emmanuel
Roilides
Medical Mycology Aug 2010, Vol. 48, No. 5: 720–724. |
The post-antifungal effect (PAFE) of amphotericin B, nystatin,
ketoconazole and 5-fluorocytosine and its impact on the colonization traits of Candida
glabrata
Y.
H. Samaranayake, J.
Y. Y. Yau, Z.
M. Thein, J.
A. M. S. Jayatilake, K.
W. S. Yeung, L.
P. Samaranayake
Medical Mycology Aug 2010, Vol. 48, No. 5: 725–734. |
Splenic and lung response to nonlethal systemic Aspergillus
fumigatus infection in C57BL/6 mice
Ivana
Mirkov, Ivana
Stojanovic, Stanislava
Stosic-Grujicic, Jasmina
Glamoclija, Lidija
Zolotarevski, Dragan
Kataranovski, Milena
Kataranovski
Medical Mycology Aug 2010, Vol. 48, No. 5: 735–743. |
Molecular cloning, characterization and expression analysis of
two β-N-acetylhexosaminidase homologs of Coccidioides posadasii
Jennine
M. Lunetta, Suzanne
M. Johnson, Demosthenes
Pappagianis
Medical Mycology Aug 2010, Vol. 48, No. 5: 744–756. |
Multilocus sequence typing of sequential Candida albicans isolates from patients with persistent or recurrent fungemia
Daniel
A. Da Matta, Analy
S. Melo, Thaís
Guimarães, João
P. Frade, Timothy
J. Lott, Arnaldo
L. Colombo
Medical Mycology Aug 2010, Vol. 48, No. 5: 757–762. |
Subcutaneous phaeohyphomycotic cyst caused by Pyrenochaeta
romeroi
H. Badali, J. Chander, N. Gulati, A. Attri, R. Chopra, M. J. Najafzadeh, S. Chhabra, J. F. G. M. Meis, G. S. de Hoog
Medical Mycology
Aug 2010, Vol. 48, No. 5: 763–768. |
Fonsecaea
monophora cerebral phaeohyphomycosis:
case report of successful surgical excision and voriconazole treatment and
review
Sophia
Koo, Michael
Klompas, Francisco
M. Marty
Medical Mycology Aug 2010, Vol. 48, No. 5: 769–774. |
Paramecium species
ingest and kill the cells of the human pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus
neoformans
Shalom
Z. Frager, Cara
J. Chrisman, Rachel
Shakked, Arturo
Casadevall
Medical Mycology
Aug 2010, Vol. 48, No. 5: 775–779. |
Swimming pool
deck as environmental reservoir of Fusarium
G.
Buot, L.
Toutous-Trellu, C.
Hennequin
Medical Mycology Aug 2010, Vol. 48, No. 5: 780–784. |
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