ISHAM NEWS! (14-07-2011)
Dear , The Wythenshawe
Hospital in Manchester, U.K. has a vacancy for a consultant infectious
diseases; see information here.
The Institute of Tropical Medicine in
Antwerp, Belgium, organizes a Flemish-
and French-language
specialization Course Medical
and Veterinary Mycology. For information and registration, see
here.
On June 28, 2011, Thompson Reuters
released its much anticipated 2010 Journal Citation Reports® (JCR),
which assigns annual Impact Factor (IF) to 10,196 journals covering science and
social sciences. There are 22 journals in the subject category of Mycology with
median IF 1.633. The IF rankings for five journals that comprehensively or
exclusively focus on human and animal pathogenic fungi are as follows: Medical
Mycology (2.329), Mycopathologia (1.810), Mycoses (1.6670), Rev Iberoam Micol
(1.074), and J Mycol Méd (0.605). Further details about cited journals,
five-year aggregate IF, and other measurements of the journals’ impact are
available from the publisher (here).
The genome of
the black yeast Exophiala (Wangiella) dermatitidis has been sequenced and
was released by Broad Institute. The data can be found here.
The assembly comprises 10 scaffolds with a total of 26,350,763 bases including
238 contigs. There is only a tiny amount of gap between the contigs in
scaffolds (0.02% of the total). The sequence is publicly available, and we ask
people interested in any large scale analysis of the data to contact
Christina Cuomo (cuomo@broadinstitute.org)
or Zheng Wang (zheng.wang@nrl.navy.mil).
A report from the
21st European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)
and 27th International Congress of Chemotherapy (ICC) held in Milan,
Italy, May 7-10, 2011 is available on the ISHAM website here.
The main traits
of the program of the ISHAM Black Yeast Workshop in Curitiba, Brazil,
1-4 December, 2011 are now available, see here. Among the scheduled items
is a visit to a hospital with patients with chromoblastomycosis and other
infections, and other on-site discussions such as practical problems in
the hospital laboratory.
The Chinese
edition of the CBS Course Medical Mycology will take place in Nanjing,
China, 19-29 November, see
here.
The course fee of 2000 RMB includes a new CD-ROM edition of the Atlas of
Clinical Fungi, in the Chinese language. An international edition of the course
is organised in Innsbruck, Austria, 30 July – 9 August, 2012. Lectures
given at this course are in English, while personal guidance is possible in the
major European languages. For information and registration, click here.
A Keystone
Symposium on Molecular and Cellular Biology with the theme “Fungal Pathogens:
from Basic Biology to Drug Discovery” will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico,
U.S.A., 15-20 January, 2012. Program and other information can be found
here.
Medical Mycology 49 issue 5 (July) has appeared and is freely
available in your member area. For your convenience we list the contents below:
The endocytic adaptor proteins of
pathogenic fungi: charting new and familiar pathways
Ping
Wang, Gui
Shen
Medical Mycology Jul 2011, Vol. 49, No. 5: 449–457. |
Disruption of sphingolipid biosynthetic
gene IPT1 reduces Candida albicans adhesion and prevents
activation of human gingival epithelial cell innate immune defense
Mahmoud
Rouabhia, Pranab
K. Mukherjee, Ali
Abdul Lattif, Sèverine
Curt, Jyotsna
Chandra, Mahmoud
A. Ghannoum
Medical Mycology Jul 2011, Vol. 49, No. 5: 458–466. |
A Candida albicans strain with
high MIC for caspofungin and no FKS1 mutations exhibits a high chitin
content and mutations in two chitinase genes
P.
Drakulovski, C.
Dunyach, S.
Bertout, J.
Reynes, M.
Mallié
Medical Mycology Jul 2011, Vol. 49, No. 5:
467–474. |
Discrimination of Scedosporium
prolificans against Pseudallescheria boydii and Scedosporium
apiospermum by semiautomated repetitive sequence-based PCR
J. Steinmann, D. Schmidt, J. Buer, P.-M. Rath
Medical Mycology Jul 2011, Vol. 49, No. 5:
475–483. |
Epidemiology of dermatophyte infections
in Stockholm, Sweden: a retrospective study from 2005–2009
Iara
Trocoli Drakensjö, Erja
Chryssanthou
Medical Mycology Jul 2011, Vol. 49, No. 5:
484–488. |
Comparison of PCR-ELISA and Real-Time
PCR for invasive aspergillosis diagnosis in patients with hematological
malignancies
Inès
Hadrich, Charles
Mary, Fattouma
Makni, Moez
Elloumi, Henri
Dumon, Ali
Ayadi, Stéphane
Ranque
Medical Mycology Jul 2011, Vol. 49, No. 5:
489–494. |
Characterization of the antimicrobial
susceptibility of fungi responsible for onychomycosis in Spain
A.
Zalacain, C.
Obrador, J.
P. Martinez, M.
Viñas, T.
Vinuesa
Medical Mycology Jul 2011, Vol. 49, No. 5:
495–499. |
Pharmacokinetics of voriconazole in
adult mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynchos)
Yvonne Kline, Karl V. Clemons, Leslie Woods, David A. Stevens, Lisa A. Tell
Medical Mycology Jul 2011, Vol. 49, No. 5:
500–512. |
Glycosylation status of the C.
albicans cell wall affects the efficiency of neutrophil phagocytosis and
killing but not cytokine signaling
Chirag
C. Sheth, Rebecca
Hall, Leanne
Lewis, Alistair
J. P. Brown, Frank
C. Odds, Lars
P. Erwig, Neil
A. R. Gow
Medical Mycology Jul 2011, Vol. 49, No. 5:
513–524. |
Prevalence of Candida bracarensis and Candida nivariensis in a Spanish collection of yeasts: comparison of
results from a reference centre and from a population-based surveillance study
of candidemia
M.
Cuenca-Estrella, A.
Gomez-Lopez, G.
Isla, D.
Rodriguez, B.
Almirante, A.
Pahissa, J.
L. Rodriguez-Tudela
Medical Mycology Jul 2011, Vol. 49, No. 5:
525–529.
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Prevalent nosocomial clusters among
causative agents for candidemia in Hamilton, Canada
Harinad
Maganti, Deborah
Yamamura, Jianping
Xu
Medical Mycology Jul 2011, Vol. 49, No. 5:
530–538. |
Successful management of
gastrointestinal pythiosis in a dog using itraconazole, terbinafine, and
mefenoxam
James
Hummel, Amy
Grooters, Gigi
Davidson, Samuel
Jennings, Jodi
Nicklas, Adam
Birkenheuer
Medical Mycology Jul 2011, Vol. 49, No. 5: 539–542. |
Primary subcutaneous Alternaria
alternata infection of the hand in an immunocompromised host
Dzifa
S. Kpodzo, Michael
S. Calderwood, David
E. Ruchelsman, Jeremy
S. Abramson, Adriano
Piris, Jonathan
M. Winograd, Camille
N. Kotton
Medical Mycology Jul 2011, Vol. 49, No. 5:
543–547. |
Adherence to buccal epithelial cells,
enzymatic and hemolytic activities of Candida isolates from HIV-infected
individuals
Arati
Mane, Chayya
Pawale, Shraddha
Gaikwad, Shilpa
Bembalkar, Arun
Risbud
Medical Mycology Jul 2011, Vol. 49, No. 5: 548–551. |
Epidemiology and risk factors for non-Candida
albicans candidemia in non-neutropenic patients at a Chinese teaching
hospital
Ji-Qin
Wu, Li-Ping
Zhu, Xue-Ting
Ou, Bin
Xu, Xiu-Ping
Hu, Xuan
Wang, Xin-Hua
Weng
Medical Mycology Jul 2011, Vol. 49, No. 5:
552–555. |
Proteinase, phospholipase, biofilm
forming abilities and antifungal susceptibilities of Malaysian Candida isolates from blood cultures
Sun
Tee Tay, Ira
Azzura Zainal Abidin, Hamimah
Hassan, Kee
Peng Ng
Medical Mycology Jul 2011, Vol. 49, No. 5:
556–560. |
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