Publication Year: 2007 / Subject: Cryptococcus neoformans and Brazil

Author:: Braga, F.G.; Bouzada, M.L.M.; Fabri, R.L.; Matos, M. de O.; Moreira, F.O.; Scio, E.; Coimbra, E.S.
Source:: Journal of ethnopharmacology 2007 v.111 no.2 pp. 396-402
ISSN:: 0378-8741
Subject:: Vernonia; Ocimum gratissimum; Schinus; Cajanus cajan; Piper aduncum; Bixa orellana; Syzygium cumini; medicinal plants; chemical constituents of plants; plant extracts; medicinal properties; Leishmania amazonensis; Leishmania donovani; antiprotozoal agents; Candida albicans; Cryptococcus neoformans; antifungal agents; traditional medicine; herbal medicines; ethnobotany; Brazil
Abstract:: ... The antileishmanial and antifungal activity of 24 methanol extracts from 20 plants, all of them used in the Brazilian traditional medicine for the treatment of several infectious and inflammatory disorders, were evaluated against promastigotes forms of two species of Leishmania (L. amazonensis and L. chagasi) and two yeasts (Candida albicans and Cryptococcus neoformans). Among the 20 tested methan ...
DOI:: 10.1016/j.jep.2006.12.006
: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2006.12.006

Author:: Almeida, Ana Marisa Fusco; Matsumoto, Marcelo Teruyuki; Baeza, Lilian Cristiane; Oliveira e Silva, Rosana Bellan de; Kleiner, Aline Aparecida Pizzirani; Melhem, Márcia de Souza Carvalho; Mendes Giannini, Maria José Soares
Source:: FEMS yeast research 2007 v.7 no.1 pp. 152-164
ISSN:: 1567-1356
Subject:: Cryptococcus gattii; Cryptococcus neoformans; DNA; amphotericin B; electrophoresis; fluconazole; flucytosine; genetic variation; itraconazole; karyotyping; meningitis; minimum inhibitory concentration; mixed infection; patients; random amplified polymorphic DNA technique; yeasts; Brazil
Abstract:: ... The antifungal susceptibility profiles and the genetic variability of 83 sequential clinical isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans, including four Cryptococcus gattii isolates, obtained from 38 Sao Paulo AIDS patients with cryptococcal meningitis were assessed by electrophoretic karyotyping and random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis. The majority of the Cryptococcus neoformans isolates wer ...
DOI:: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2006.00128.x
: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1567-1364.2006.00128.x

Author:: Lemos, L.S.; Santos, A.S. de O. dos; Vieira-da-Motta, O.; Texeira, G.N.; Carvalho, E.C.Q. de
Source:: Veterinary microbiology 2007 v.125 no.3-4 pp. 350-354
ISSN:: 0378-1135
Subject:: sheep; sheep diseases; respiratory tract diseases; mycoses; Cryptococcus neoformans; disease detection; case studies; epidemiological studies; pathogen identification; lungs; tissue analysis; cryopreservation; histopathology; yeasts; epithelium; viability; microscopy; differential staining; in vitro culture; risk assessment; disease transmission; zoonoses; Brazil
Abstract:: ... Cryptococcosis is considered a zoonosis but is rare in stock animals. In humans it is imputed to be a mortality cause in immunocompromised patients. This case study reports the anatomopathology of respiratory cryptococcosis in ovine and the recuperation and identification of Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans from 1-year frozen lung tissue sample. The findings from haematoxylin/eosin staining ...
DOI:: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2006.11.028
: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vetmic.2006.11.028

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