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Antemortem Diagnosis and Successful Treatment of Pulmonary Candidiasis in a Sun Conure (Aratinga solstitialis).

Journal of avian medicine and surgery

Proença LM, Mayer J, Schnellbacher R, Sanchez S, Huang CT, Brown H, Jiménez D, Stelmach D, Divers SJ.
PMID: 25843470
J Avian Med Surg. 2014 Dec;28(4):316-21. doi: 10.1647/2013-073.

An adult male sun conure (Aratinga solstitialis) was evaluated because of lethargy, ruffled feathers, and decreased appetite. Physical examination revealed hypothermia, dehydration, dyspnea, and crop distention. Results of a complete blood cell count revealed a marked inflammatory leukogram, and...

A Novel Sterol Isolated from a Plant Used by Mayan Traditional Healers Is Effective in Treatment of Visceral Leishmaniasis Caused by Leishmania donovani.

ACS infectious diseases

Gupta G, Peine KJ, Abdelhamid D, Snider H, Shelton AB, Rao L, Kotha SR, Huntsman AC, Varikuti S, Oghumu S, Naman CB, Pan L, Parinandi NL, Papenfuss TL, Kinghorn AD, Bachelder EM, Ainslie KM, Fuchs JR, Satoskar AR.
PMID: 27623316
ACS Infect Dis. 2015 Oct 09;1(10):497-506. doi: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.5b00081. Epub 2015 Sep 21.

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), caused by the protozoan parasite Leishmania donovani, is a global health problem affecting millions of people worldwide. Treatment of VL largely depends on therapeutic drugs such as pentavalent antimonials, amphotericin B, and others, which have major...

Role of isavuconazole in the treatment of invasive fungal infections.

Therapeutics and clinical risk management

Wilson DT, Dimondi VP, Johnson SW, Jones TM, Drew RH.
PMID: 27536124
Ther Clin Risk Manag. 2016 Aug 03;12:1197-206. doi: 10.2147/TCRM.S90335. eCollection 2016.

Despite recent advances in both diagnosis and prevention, the incidence of invasive fungal infections continues to rise. Available antifungal agents to treat invasive fungal infections include polyenes, triazoles, and echinocandins. Unfortunately, individual agents within each class may be limited...

Chemotherapeutic potential of cow urine: A review.

Journal of intercultural ethnopharmacology

Randhawa GK, Sharma R.
PMID: 26401404
J Intercult Ethnopharmacol. 2015 Apr-Jun;4(2):180-6. doi: 10.5455/jice.2015022210032. Epub 2015 Mar 07.

In the grim scenario where presently about 70% of pathogenic bacteria are resistant to at least one of the drugs for the treatment, cue is to be taken from traditional/indigenous medicine to tackle it urgently. The Indian traditional knowledge...

In vitro susceptibility to amphotericin B, itraconazole, voriconazole, posaconazole and caspofungin of Aspergillus spp. isolated from patients with haematological malignancies in Tunisia.

SpringerPlus

Gheith S, Saghrouni F, Bannour W, Ben Youssef Y, Khelif A, Normand AC, Piarroux R, Ben Said M, Njah M, Ranque S.
PMID: 26034655
Springerplus. 2014 Jan 10;3:19. doi: 10.1186/2193-1801-3-19. eCollection 2014.

The resistance of Aspergillus species to antifungal is increasingly reported and the knowledge of the local epidemiology and antifungal susceptibility pattern is pivotal to define adequate treatment policies. Our study aimed to: 1) describe the in vitro antifungal susceptibility...

Investigation of In Vitro Activity of Five Antifungal Drugs against Dermatophytes Species Isolated from Clinical Samples Using the E-Test Method.

The Eurasian journal of medicine

Aktas AE, Yigit N, Aktas A, Gozubuyuk SG.
PMID: 25610290
Eurasian J Med. 2014 Feb;46(1):26-31. doi: 10.5152/eajm.2014.05.

OBJECTIVE: Dermatomycosis is an infection with fungi related to the skin: glabrous skin, hair and/or nails. Oral treatment of fungal infections in dermatology has become a preferred modality for the management of these very common conditions. Although there are...

Standardized electrolyte supplementation and fluid management improves survival during amphotericin therapy for cryptococcal meningitis in resource-limited settings.

Open forum infectious diseases

Bahr NC, Rolfes MA, Musubire A, Nabeta H, Williams DA, Rhein J, Kambugu A, Meya DB, Boulware DR.
PMID: 25734140
Open Forum Infect Dis. 2014 Aug 25;1(2):ofu070. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofu070. eCollection 2014 Sep.

BACKGROUND: Amphotericin B is the preferred treatment for cryptococcal meningitis, but it has cumulative severe side effects, including nephrotoxicity, hypokalemia, and hypomagnesemia. Amphotericin-induced severe hypokalemia may predispose the patient to cardiac arrhythmias and death, and there is very little...

Pulmonary Mucormycosis in a Patient with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Diagnostic and Treatment Challenge.

Case reports in infectious diseases

Hung HC, Shen GY, Chen SC, Yeo KJ, Tsao SM, Lee MC, Lee YT.
PMID: 26185693
Case Rep Infect Dis. 2015;2015:478789. doi: 10.1155/2015/478789. Epub 2015 Jun 22.

Pulmonary mucormycosis is commonly encountered in patients with diabetic ketoacidosis, hematologic malignancies, neutropenia, organ or hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, and malignancy, but it rarely occurs in high-risk patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). We present the case of a...

Incidence and outcome of documented fungal endocarditis.

International cardiovascular research journal

Badiee P, Amirghofran AA, Ghazi Nour M, Shafa M, Nemati MH.
PMID: 25614858
Int Cardiovasc Res J. 2014 Dec;8(4):152-5. Epub 2014 Dec 01.

BACKGROUND: Fungal endocarditis, the most severe form of infective endocarditis, is characterized by excessive mortality and morbidity.OBJECTIVES: The present study aimed to analyze the characteristics of fungal endocarditis to improve the management of these patients.MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this...

Prevention of amphotericin B nephrotoxicity through use of phytotherapeutic medication.

Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P

Schlottfeldt Fdos S, Fernandes SM, Martins DM, Cordeiro P, Fonseca CD, Watanabe M, Vattimo Mde F.
PMID: 26761695
Rev Esc Enferm USP. 2015 Feb;49:74-9. doi: 10.1590/S0080-623420150000700011.

Objective To evaluate the effect of diosmin and hesperidin flavonoids in the prevention of amphotericin B nephrotoxicity, through an experimental model on rats. Method Adult, male Wistar rats were distributed into the following groups: saline; diosmin hesperidin (animals that...

Antifungal agent utilization evaluation in hospitalized neutropenic cancer patients at a large teaching hospital.

Drug, healthcare and patient safety

Vazin A, Davarpanah MA, Ghalesoltani S.
PMID: 26064070
Drug Healthc Patient Saf. 2015 Jun 01;7:97-102. doi: 10.2147/DHPS.S80762. eCollection 2015.

To evaluate pattern of using of three antifungal drugs: fluconazole, amphotericin B and voriconazole, at the hematology-oncology and bone marrow transplant wards of one large teaching hospital. In a prospective cross-sectional study, we evaluated the appropriateness of using antifungal...

Post operative fungal endopthalmitis due to Geotrichum candidum.

Medical mycology case reports

Myint T, Dykhuizen MJ, McDonald CH, Ribes JA.
PMID: 26779419
Med Mycol Case Rep. 2015 Dec 01;10:4-6. doi: 10.1016/j.mmcr.2015.11.001. eCollection 2015 Dec.

Geotrichum species have been rarely reported as the cause of sepsis, disseminated infection in immunosuppressed patients. The patient we describe developed indolent endophthalmitis four months after her routine right eye cataract surgery. The intraoperative sample from right vitreous fluid...

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