Publications
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| taxonomy of exophiala jeanselmei (langeron) mcginnis and padhye. | the black yeast-like fungus exophiala jeanselmei (langeron) mcginnis et padhye was originally described as torula jeanselmei by langeron. since its original description in 1928, this dematiaceous hyphomycete has been placed in the genera phialophora, pullularia and rhinocladiella by various authors. study of the type culture of e. jeanselmei has confirmed that the principle conidiogenous cells of this fungus are annellides, thus supporting its current generic disposition. after reviewing the neo ... | 1978 | 570642 |
| mycetomas in north india. | of 60 clinically suspected cases of mycetoma, 20 were confirmed by cultural and histopathological methods. the feet were found to be affected in 70% of the cases. the age group most affected by the disease was 20-40 years. men were involved in 18 while females were affected in 2 cases only. actinomycetomas (70%) were found more often than eumycetomas (30%). nocardia species were identified in 35% of cases and madurella mycetomi in 25%. there were four cases (20%) where the etiological agents cou ... | 1979 | 575236 |
| experimental maduromycosis. ii. experimental mycetoma in mice caused by repeated injections of phialophora jeanselmei. | intraperitoneal and subcutaneous lesions were produced in 17 out of 22 mice, sensitized by repeated subcutaneous injections of p. jeanselmei in freund's complete adjuvant. the lesions were essentially self-limiting as were those described by us earlier in cortisone-treated mice. precipitating antibodies and cutaneous hypersensitivity could not be demonstrated. | 1975 | 1216301 |
| cutaneous phaehyphomycosis caused by exophiala jeanselmei var lecanii-cornii (benedek and specht) de hoog. | 1992 | 1344165 | |
| phaeohyphomycosis due to exophiala species: clinical spectrum of disease in humans. | phaeohyphomycosis caused by exophiala species is an unusual infection, but it has been reported with increasing frequency as immunosuppressive therapy has become more widespread and laboratory methods for diagnosis have improved. to our knowledge, the first case of subcutaneous phaeohyphomycosis due to exophiala jeanselmei in a cardiac transplant patient is presented, and previously reported cases of exophiala infection are reviewed. this patient was successfully managed with surgical excision o ... | 1992 | 1420677 |
| exoantigen test for the rapid identification of exophiala spinifera. | exophiala spinifera, one of the etiologic agents of subcutaneous phaeohyphomycosis, may be wrongly identified as exophiala jeanselmei because of the morphologic similarity of the two species. a reagent containing a precipitin specific for e. spinifera was produced by absorbing antiserum to e. spinifera with e. jeanselmei serotype 1 antigen. using this absorbed antiserum, we were able to correctly identify isolates of e. spinifera and differentiate them from those of exophiala alcalophila, e. jea ... | 1991 | 1719180 |
| [morphologic and physiologic characteristics of costa rica pathogenic fungi (dermatiaceae)]. | forty one strains of dematiaceous fungi from the mycology collection of the university of costa rica were studied. thirty three were pathogenic (fonsecaea pedrosoi, cladosporium carrionii, xylohypha bantiana, exophiala jeanselmei, rhinocladiella aquaspersa, phialophora verrucosa) and the other eight were contaminants (hormodendrum sp.). morphological studies were done using the slide culture technique. the physiological criteria used were: urease production, gelatin and loeffler media liquefacti ... | 1991 | 1844148 |
| yeasts and fungi occurring in ensiled whole-crop maize and other ensiled vegetable crops. | the yeast flora of whole-crop maize ensiled for two weeks was predominated by candida holmii, c. lambica, c. milleri, hansenula anomala and saccharomyces dairensis. inoculation with other yeast species reported in the literature to prevail in maize or wheat silages did not alter the yeast flora. at 25 or 30 degrees c the ascomycetous fermentative species found at 20 degrees c were accompanied with ascomycetous non-fermentative fungi, i.c. exophiala jeanselmei and verticillium psalliotae, by the ... | 1990 | 2321936 |
| cutaneous phaeohyphomycosis caused by exophiala jeanselmei after renal transplantation. | a 60-year-old man who had had a renal transplantation developed a nodule on the dorsum of his right middle finger, which was subsequently diagnosed as cutaneous phaeohyphomycosis caused by exophiala jeanselmei. the patient was successfully treated with 5-fluorocytosine. to our knowledge, this case is the third reported case in the world caused by this species in a postrenal transplant patient that manifested as phaeohyphomycosis. | 1990 | 2335414 |
| mitochondrial dna analysis of exophiala jeanselmei and exophiala dermatitidis. | mitochondrial dna (mtdna) analysis with hae iii, hind iii and msp i was performed in 45 exophiala jeanselmei strains (30 phialophora jeanselmei and 154 phialophora gougerotii strains) and 31 exophiala dermatitidis strains. the results were as follows, 1) p. jeanselmei and p. gougerotii are identical, 2) e. jeanselmei is classified into 18 types based on restriction profiles, 3) two strains of e. jeanselmei cbs 577.76 and cbs 578.76 are identified as e. dermatitidis, 4) e. dermatitidis has no int ... | 1990 | 2366850 |
| subcutaneous phaeohyphomycosis due to exophiala jeanselmei in an immunosuppressed patient: case report. | a case of subcutaneous phaeohyphomycosis due to exophiala jeanselmei, probably the first reported in new zealand, is presented. this infection initially presented as two asymptomatic swellings overlying the left wrist of a 70 year old farmer with chronic respiratory and cardiovascular disease. a two month course of ketoconazole therapy proved ineffective and the patient subsequently died from his underlying medical condition. | 1990 | 2371007 |
| phaeohyphomycosis due to phialophora richardsiae. | phaeohyphomycosis, an infection characterised by dematiaceous yeast-like cells, hyphae and pseudohyphae in tissue, is an uncommon condition, often affecting immunosuppressed patients. a sixty four year old boat-builder, receiving treatment with prednisone and azathioprine developed multiple cutaneous nodules on the extremities. histology showed a mixed dermal inflammatory infiltrate with scattered spores and hyphae. culture revealed two organisms, phialophora richardsiae and exophiala jeanselmei ... | 1989 | 2562069 |
| subcutaneous phaeohyphomycosis of the finger caused by exophiala spinifera. | a patient with severe rheumatoid arthritis treated with prednisone had a painless soft tissue nodule develop on the dorsal aspect of the ring finger. she denied any history of hand trauma, animal exposure, or systemic symptoms such as fever or malaise. fungal cultures performed on an aseptically obtained aspirate of this lesion demonstrated dark, olive-black creamy colonies on sabouraud's agar. slide cultures made from mold colonies produced slender conidial forms with annellations and spine-lik ... | 1989 | 2655427 |
| physiological characteristics of environmental isolates of pathogenic dematiaceous fungi. | a total of 39 environmental isolates of pathogenic dematiaceous fungi (fonsecaea pedrosoi: 14 isolates, phialophora verrucosa: 6, cladosporium carrionii: 9, exophiala jeanselmei: 2, ramichloridium subulatum: 6, cladosporium tenuissimum: 1 and phaeoisaria clematidis: 1) were evaluated for their various physiological characteristics including the ability to produce extracellular enzymes. significant physiological characteristics included the ability of isolates of all the species except c. tenuiss ... | 1989 | 2710157 |
| invasion of a soft contact lens by exophiala jeanselmei. | the invasion of a soft contact lens by exophiala jeanselmei is documented. all species in this genus are pathogenic. in humans e. jeanselmei is a recognized cause of mycetoma, phaeohyphomycosis and keratomycosis. this fungus has not been previously listed among lens invaders. | 1989 | 2761611 |
| deoxyribonucleic acid hybridization studies of exophiala dermatitidis and exophiala jeanselmei. | exophiala dermatitidis and exophiala jeanselmei share similar morphological features and have been confused with each other. to clarify the relationship between the two fungi, we conducted a deoxyribonucleic acid (dna)-dna hybridization study using a dot blot method. between e. dermatitidis and e. jeanselmei, only a very low level of dna relatedness was seen and it was confirmed that these two fungi are distinct species based on dna similarity. close correspondence of dna from the isolates of e. ... | 1989 | 2779471 |
| evaluation of the api 20c yeast identification system for the differentiation of some dematiaceous fungi. | ninety-seven isolates of cladosporium spp., exophiala spp., fonsecaea spp., lecythophora hoffmannii, phaeoannellomyces werneckii, phialophora spp., wangiella dermatitidis, and xylohypha bantiana were used to evaluate the api 20c yeast identification system for the differentiation of dematiaceous fungi. using the api 20c system, we were able to distinguish most species of phialophora and cladosporium and to separate l. hoffmannii from the species of phialophora tested; x. bantiana from c. carrion ... | 1989 | 2808678 |
| an immunological procedure for the rapid identification of phaeoannellomyces werneckii. | phaeoannellomyces werneckii is identified on the basis of its annellidic conidiogenous cells and the production of two-celled conidia. without the proper recognition of its annellidic mode of conidiogenesis, isolates of p. werneckii can be confused with other species of phaeococcomyces, exophiala, and scolecobasidium constrictum. to overcome this problem, we developed exoantigen reagents capable of specifically identifying p. werneckii. rabbit p. werneckii antiserum was rendered specific by adso ... | 1988 | 3146449 |
| medical significance of the so-called black yeasts. | infections caused by the black yeasts (leveduras pretas) are reviewed with respect to their clinical manifestations, classification under the umbrella term, phaeohyphomycosis, and differentiation from chromoblastomycosis. data on the prevalence of black yeasts submitted to a national reference diagnostic center are provided. cases of phaeohyphomycosis caused by aureobasidium pullulans, exophiala jeanselmei, e. moniliae, e. spinifera, phaeoannelomyces werneckii, phaeosclera dematioides, sarcinomy ... | 1987 | 3301395 |
| evaluation of proteolytic activity to differentiate some dematiaceous fungi. | a total of 123 isolates of cladosporium spp., exophiala spp., fonsecaea spp., lecythophora hoffmannii, phaeoannellomyces werneckii, phialophora spp., wangiella dermatitidis, and xylohypha bantiana were tested for proteolytic activity by using 26 different formulations of gelatin, milk, casein, and loeffler media. other physiological properties examined included hydrolysis of tyrosine and xanthine, sodium nitrate utilization in czapek dox agar, and thermotolerance. isolates of exophiala jeanselme ... | 1988 | 3343325 |
| arthritis and endocarditis from exophiala jeanselmei infection. | 1988 | 3358588 | |
| [first isolation of exophiala jeanselmei (lang) de hoog from a dental granuloma]. | exophiala jeanselmei (lang) de hoog was isolated from a granuloma of a dental decay. its systematic position and morphology in optical microscopy are widely discussed in accordance with current views. | 1986 | 3448970 |
| a case of chromoblastomycosis: with special reference to the mycology of the isolated exophiala jeanselmei. | 1986 | 3540662 | |
| fungi in bathwater and sludge of bathroom drainpipes. 1. frequent isolation of exophiala species. | samples of bathwater from 14 homes and 22 public bathhouses and sludge in drainpipes from 19 household bathrooms were plated out onto potato dextrose agar supplemented with chloramphenicol. several media were used to study colony morphology of the isolates and the thermotolerance and alkaline tolerance of each isolate were examined. eleven sludge samples produced 12 isolates of exophiala jeanselmei, 2 of e. dermatitidis and 1 of e. moniliae. five household bathwater samples produced 2 isolates o ... | 1987 | 3561469 |
| a case of chromoblastomycosis with special reference to the mycology of the isolated exophiala jeanselmei. | 1987 | 3587275 | |
| in vitro sensitivity of environmental isolates of pathogenic dematiaceous fungi to azole compounds and a phenylpropyl-morpholine derivative. | the in vitro sensitivity (minimum inhibitory concentrations; mics) of 42 environmental isolates of pathogenic dematiaceous fungi to 7 azole compounds, viz. thiabendazole, ketoconazole, miconazole, econazole bifonazole, bay n 7133, bay 1 9139 and phenylpropyl-morpholine derivative, ro14-4767/002 was studied by an agar dilution method using emmon's sabouraud dextrose agar (esda) as the culture medium. the isolates of fonsecaea pedrosoi, cladosporium carrionii, exophiala jeanselmei and ramichloridi ... | 1987 | 3657909 |
| use of carbohydrate and nitrate assimilations in the identification of dematiaceous fungi. | a total of 61 isolates of dematiaceous fungi, including exophiala jeanselmei, wangiella dermatitidis, fonsecaea pedrosoi, phialophora verrucosa, and a few isolates of related organisms were evaluated for their ability to assimilate 13 carbohydrates and sodium nitrate. results indicated that patterns of assimilations can facilitate specific identifications when used with microscopic morphologic features. eleven isolates of w. dermatitidis demonstrated negative results for nitrate assimilation, al ... | 1986 | 3709095 |
| mycetoma due to exophiala jeanselmei (a case report with description of the fungus). | 1986 | 3781614 | |
| exophiala jeanselmei infection in a postrenal transplant patient. | we report a case of exophiala jeanselmei infection in a postrenal transplant patient. he had verrucous lesions on the thigh and abdomen in which clinical and histologic changes resembled those characteristic of chromoblastomycosis. however, the morphologic features of the fungus seen in the tissue sections made it necessary to diagnose this case as phaeohyphomycosis. the patient was treated successfully by complete excision of the lesion on the abdomen and with oral ketoconazole. | 1985 | 3905886 |
| phaeohyphomycotic cyst of the skin caused by exophiala jeanselmei. | a dermosubcutaneous nodule presenting with a superficial papular vascular component occurred in a man receiving long-term prednisone therapy. the histologic findings were characteristic of a phaeohyphomycotic cyst, and a black mold, exophiala jeanselmei, was isolated. despite treatment with ketoconazole and local heat, the lesion persisted and was excised. the fungus could be seen in the excised tissue, but cultures were sterile. subcutaneous phaeohyphomycosis is a relatively uncommon, but recen ... | 1985 | 3973121 |
| [a case of chromoblastomycosis caused by exophiala jeanselmei having a granular phase]. | 1985 | 3999441 | |
| pathogenicity of exophiala jeanselmei for ddy mice. | the pathogenicity of three cultures isolated as phialophora jeanselmei was compared with that of three cultures of phialophora gougerotii using ddy mice. one hundred and twenty mice were used. they were divided into 6 groups consisting of 20 each. each culture was evaluated in 20 mice. mice were inoculated intravenously with 0.2 ml of a 1% (wet weight/vol.) yeast-like cell suspension and sacrificed at adequate intervals until the 30th day. as results, 1) the virulence of the three cultures each ... | 1985 | 4047124 |
| experimental maduromycosis. i. infection of mice with phialophora jeanselmei. | 1973 | 4584516 | |
| production of capsule and conidia by yeast-like cells of phialophora spinifera and phialophora jeanselmei. | 1973 | 4703463 | |
| maduromycosis of the hand due to phialophora jeanselmei. | 1972 | 5028859 | |
| the pigmentation of bovine serum albumin by the "black yeast" phialophora jeanselmei. | 1969 | 5385182 | |
| a case of madura foot caused by phialophora jeanselmei. | 1964 | 5874570 | |
| maduromycosis caused by phialophora jeanselmei in india. | 1966 | 5974783 | |
| preliminary studies of some physiological properties of torula jeanselmei. | the morphological characteristics of pathogenic and saprophytic strains of torula jeanselmei (fungi imperfecti) are indistinguishable. some basic physiological properties of t. jeanselmei were investigated in the hope of separating the human pathogenic strain from common saprophytes in a clinical laboratory. nitrogen and carbon assimilation tests were not useful for distinguishing the pathogen, since all strains, pathogenic and saprophytic, were able to assimilate nitrogen from ammonium, nitrate ... | 1967 | 6035262 |
| misdiagnosis caused by fungal contaminant in a histological stain solution. | silver stains on tissue and cytology specimens are important in the evaluation of patients with suspected fungal infections. care must be taken, however, to prevent misinterpretation of contamination artifacts. two cases presenting such a problem are reported. the first patient had granulomatous leg lesions that microscopically showed characteristics of erythema induratum but with budding yeastlike organisms demonstrated by grocott methenamine silver stain. cultures and subsequent biopsies were ... | 1980 | 6153661 |
| serological cross-reactivity between sporothrix schenckii and various unrelated fungi. | the serological cross-reactivity of sporothrix schenckii with various unrelated fungi was investigated by use of immunodiffusion tests. a rabbit anti s. schenckii serum was obtained, which reacted with cladosporium werneckii, c. carrionii, c. bantianum, coccidioides immitis, phialophora jeanselmei, p. gougerotii, p. dermatitidis, fonsecaea pedrosoi, aspergillus fumigatus, histoplasma capsulatum and trichophyton mentagrophytes, but not with saccharomyces cerevisiae antigens. the serological deter ... | 1981 | 6163987 |
| cutaneous phaeohyphomycosis of the sole caused by exophiala jeanselmei and its susceptibility to amphotericin b, 5-fc and ketoconazole. | 1982 | 6290889 | |
| [exophiala jeanselmei (phialophora jeanselmei)--demonstration in the vitreous body of the eye]. | 1984 | 6332982 | |
| fungal peritonitis in patients on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. | fungal peritonitis is a rare complication in patients on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. we report five recent cases and their management. the fungi isolated were candida albicans, c. parapsilosis, exophiala jeanselmei, drechslera spicifera, and a fusarium species. chemotherapy was attempted with various regimens including oral ketoconazole, intravenous or intraperitoneal amphotericin b, and oral flucytosine. pharmacokinetic studies were done in two patients receiving treatment with o ... | 1983 | 6351688 |
| fungal flora from diabetic and non-diabetic human donor corneas. | corneal tissue obtained at the maryland medical examiners' laboratory (baltimore) from 47 cadaver donors was examined for the presence of potentially pathogenic fungi. fifty-five percent of the donor corneas were positive for fungi consisting predominantly of cladosporium spp. (11 isolates), penicillium spp. (nine isolates), rhodotorula spp. (six isolates), and candida parapsilosis (four isolates). exophiala jeanselmei (two isolates) and wangiella dermatitidis were cultured from apparently healt ... | 1984 | 6400578 |
| exoantigen tests for the immunoidentification of fungal cultures. | exoantigen tests for the immunoidentification of fungal pathogens are playing a new and significant role in the diagnostic laboratory. properly performed and controlled exoantigen tests lead to rapid, accurate identification of cultures of many fungal pathogens. the tests are particularly valuable in identifying dimorphic pathogens that are difficult to convert or with atypical cultures. we review the value of exoantigen tests for identifying mycelial form fungi: aspergillus spp. blastomyces der ... | 1983 | 6410243 |
| exoantigen test for differentiation of exophiala jeanselmei and wangiella dermatitidis isolates from other dematiaceous fungi. | concentrated (25x) exoantigens of 105 isolates of pathogenic and saprophytic dematiaceous fungi and 3 isolates of sporothrix schenckii were analyzed by the microimmunodiffusion method. the reagents used were nonadsorbed and adsorbed sera produced in new zealand rabbits. one set of rabbits was immunized with soluble antigens of a 1-month-old culture of exophiala jeanselmei (atcc 34123), and the other set was immunized with soluble antigens from a culture of wangiella dermatitidis (atcc 28869). th ... | 1984 | 6430954 |
| phaeomycotic cyst. a case with a lesion containing a wooden splinter. | a case of phaeomycotic cyst caused by exophiala jeanselmei is presented. the patient was a 45-year-old woman and a carpenter's wife. the lesion that developed on her right thigh was removed surgically. examination of the specimen disclosed a wooden splinter in the cavity of the excised cyst. it seemed likely that the causal agent had entered into the skin of the patient on the wooden splinter. | 1984 | 6476859 |
| isolation of exophiala jeanselmei associated with esophageal pathology--three cases, laboratory and clinical features. | exophiala jeanselmei was isolated from three esophageal cultures over an 11-month period at lutheran general hospital. we believe this provides evidence for a new site of isolation, since previous reports of the organism's incidence were confined to skin and lung. case 1 is an eight-year-old female with a three-year history of gagging and vomiting. esophagoscopy revealed a mass biopsied as vegetable material. case 2 is a 66-year-old retired male with a history of obesity, diabetes and spinal ste ... | 1984 | 6493312 |
| post-traumatic fungal endophthalmitis caused by exophiala jeanselmei. | fungal endophthalmitis caused by dematiacious fungi is an uncommon occurrence. we report a case of fungal endophthalmitis caused by exophiala jeanselmei following penetrating injury. this is a previously unreported etiologic agent in endophthalmitis. the infection was treated with intravitreal and intravenous amphotericin b in combination with oral 5-fluorocytosine. although the organism was eradicated, vision was lost due to total retinal detachment. | 1983 | 6607016 |
| phaeohyphomycosis caused by exophiala jeanselmei in a domestic cat. | 1982 | 6890562 | |
| evaluation of skin test for chromoblastomycosis using antigens prepared from culture filtrates of fonsecaea pedrosoi, phialophora verrucosa, wangiella dermatitidis and exophiala jeanselmei. | antigenic substances were prepared from culture filtrates of fonsecaea pedrosoi, phialophora verrucosa, wangiella dermatitidis and exophiala jeanselmei. these antigenic substances were evaluated for detecting cutaneous delayed hypersensitivity in rats experimentally-infected with f. pedrosoi, p. verrucosa. w. dermatitidis, e. jeanselmei, cladosporium carrionii and fonsecaea compactum and in patients with chromoblastomycosis caused by f. pedrosoi. the f. pedrosoi antigen elicited positive reactio ... | 1982 | 7070478 |
| mycetoma of the hand caused by phialophora jeanselmei. | 1982 | 7110194 | |
| nature and identification of exophiala werneckii. | the morphological and physiological characteristics of 44 isolates of exophiala werneckii recovered from human and environmental sources were indistinguishable from 2 isolates that caused tinea nigra. casein hydrolysis and inability to decompose tyrosine differentiate e. werneckii from exophiala jeanselmei, exophiala spinifera, and wangiella dermatitidis. | 1982 | 7153351 |
| dematiaceous fungal pathogens isolated from nature. | this study was conducted to demonstrate the presence of pathogenic dematiaceous fungi in nature. using hamster and mouse inoculation techniques, 43 isolates of dematiaceous fungi were recovered from 39 samples of woody plant material and soil from the virginia environment. thirteen species were identified and included 4 phialophora spp., 3 cladosporium spp., 2 exophiala spp., sporothrix sp., wangiella dermatitidis, bispora betulina, and scytalidium lignicola. evidence is presented for the first ... | 1980 | 7189579 |
| exophiala jeanselmei causing mycetoma pedis in india. | exophiala jeanselmei causing mycetoma pedis in a 65-year-old bengalee businessman was described. the right lower leg and foot were irregularly swollen, firm, painless, non-tender and had many small nodules and sinuses all over the swelling. the lower end of the tibia and bones of the foot were affected. the discharge from the sinuses and nodules contained black brown, soft, vermicular, crescent-shaped to irregular granules, measuring 0.5--2.00 mm and composed mostly of swollen spherical cells, 4 ... | 1980 | 7191580 |
| isolation of dematiaceous pathogenic fungi from a feed and seed warehouse. | in an epidemiological study, nine isolates of dematiaceous fungi were recovered from the interior of a local feed and seed warehouse. sample sites include brick walls and floors. air samples also were included. samples were collected in saline and plated on mycobiotic and sabouraud agar. the nine dematiaceous fungi recovered from these samples were identified with microscopic morphology, thermotolerance, biochemical reactions, and animal virulence test. four isolates were identified as nonpathog ... | 1982 | 7200100 |
| chromohyphomycosis of the hand due to exophiala jeanselmei (phialophora jeanselmei, phialophora gougerotii)--case report and review. | a case of an unusual cause of chromomycosis of the hand is described. follow-up at 2 months revealed a complete recovery following removal of the mass, without treatment with antifungal therapy. a review of the different disease entities of the chromomycoses and a brief generic classification of the dematiacious fungi are presented. | 1981 | 7252112 |
| porcine abortions associated with fungi, actinomycetes, and rhodococcus sp. | history, lesions, and results of microbiologic examinations are given for four porcine abortions associated with fungi and one each associated with actinomadura madurae, an aerobic actinomycete, and rhodococcus sp. the fungi were gliomastix sp., petriellidium boydii, aspergillus fumigatus, and exophiala jeanselmei. parvovirus, isolated from one fetus, was the only other infectious agent identified. the presence of fungi, actinomadura madurae, and rhodococcus sp. in fetal and placental lesions in ... | 1981 | 7281459 |
| subcutaneous pheomycotic cyst of the finger caused by exophiala jeanselmei: association with a wooden splinter. | a 58-year-old man with mild glucose intolerance noted a subcutaneous cystic nodule on the ventral aspect of his ring finger. he had experienced trauma to the finger while gardening five weeks before the lesion occurred. exophiala jeanselmei was isolated and identified on culturing of aspirate from the cystic nodule. the nodule was then removed surgically, and a wooden splinter was found close to the subcutaneous fibrous cyst, suggesting that the causal organism had entered the subcutaneous tissu ... | 1995 | 7555101 |
| subcutaneous phaeohyphomycosis caused by exophiala jeanselmei: successful treatment with itraconazole. | 1995 | 7591439 | |
| analysis of genes coding for small-subunit rrna sequences in studying phylogenetics of dematiaceous fungal pathogens. | because of their ability to display yeast-like growth forms in various environmental conditions, dematiaceous (melanized) hyphomycetes of the form-genera exophiala, rhinocladiella, and wangiella have been informally termed "black yeasts." cladistic analysis of 1,050 bp of the genes coding for small-subunit rrna (ssu rdna) supported a close relationship among species of these black yeasts with other dematiaceous hyphomycetes in the form-genera fonsecaea, phialophora, and ramichloridium. the conve ... | 1995 | 7615749 |
| exophiala jeanselmei var. lecanii-corni, an aetiologic agent of human phaeohyphomycosis, with report of a case. | characters of morphology and nutritional physiology of exophiala jeanselmei var. lecanii-corni are described. the taxon was proven to be distinct from the var. jeanselmei and from exophiala dermatitidis by physiology, which is supported by molecular characters. a case of cutaneous phaeohyphomycosis caused by var. lecanii-corni is reported. | 1994 | 7844702 |
| a case of cutaneous infection by exophiala jeanselmei. | a case of cutaneous infection by exophiala jeanselmei is reported. the patient was a 45-year-old japanese female. her skin eruption consisted of a group of erythematous papules on her left cheek to which corticosteroid had been topically applied for nearly 10 years. histopathologically, a granuloma formation was noted in the dermis within which were many brown spores. the isolated fungus was identified as exophiala jeanselmei. | 1994 | 7868772 |
| phaeohyphomycosis caused by exophiala jeanselmei treated with itraconazole. | phaeohyphomycotic cysts developed on the right knee of a 72-year-old woman undergoing immunosuppressive treatment for ulcerative colitis 6 years after accidental inoculation of soil in a bicycle accident. the lesions were red, firm, slightly raised, 0.5-1 cm in size and completely asymptomatic. the diagnosis was made by histopathological examination of three excised cysts and by repeated isolation of exophiala jeanselmei in pure culture. the excised cyst walls contained large numbers of dematiac ... | 1993 | 7935581 |
| [subcutaneous phaeohyphomycose due to exophiala jeanselmir. report of 3 cases in patients with a kidney transplant]. | we report three cases of subcutaneous phaeohyphomycosis due to exophiala jeanselmei (langeron) mcginnis et padhye 1977, in kidney transplant patients. exophiala jeanselmei is a dematious fungus having also ability to rarely procedure eumycetoma (black grains). according to kwon-chung & bennett (1992) such fungus is antigenically very heterogeneous, since so far three serotypes have been identified; each serotype including subgroups. subcutaneous phaeohyphomycosis is becoming more and more freque ... | 1994 | 7997796 |
| catabolism of benzene compounds by ascomycetous and basidiomycetous yeasts and yeastlike fungi. a literature review and an experimental approach. | a literature review is given on growth of yeasts on benzene compounds and on the catabolic pathways involved. additionally, a yeast collection was screened for assimilation of phenol and 3-hydroxybenzoic acid. fifteen ascomycetous and thirteen basidiomycetous yeast species were selected and were tested for growth on 84 benzene compounds. it appeared that 63 of these compounds supported growth of one or more yeast species. the black yeast exophiala jeanselmei assimilated 54 of these compounds. th ... | 1993 | 8259830 |
| primary cutaneous phaeohyphomycosis: report of seven cases. | we report seven cases of primary cutaneous phaeohyphomycosis. there were five males and two females, ranging in age from 42-65 years (mean 57.7 years). two patients were otherwise healthy, but five were immunocompromised. one patient had rheumatoid arthritis and was on oral prednisone; two were renal transplant recipients, one was a heart transplant recipient, and the fifth had dermatomyositis. no history of trauma was elicited from any of the patients, but in two cases, foreign material was see ... | 1993 | 8366212 |
| exophiala jeanselmei keratitis. | we present the case of a 42-year-old saudi male with a fungal corneal abscess in his left eye. the aetiological agent was found to be the dematiaceous fungus exophiala jeanselmei. the patient was treated with topical natamycin, miconazole, and also amphotericin b. during the course of the infection corneal perforation occurred which was treated with cyanocrylate glue. secondary glaucoma resulted from peripheral anterior synechia which necessitated trabeculectomy. at the end of the course the inf ... | 1993 | 8366882 |
| antimycotic susceptibility testing of agents of black grain eumycetoma. | antimycotic susceptibility testing of 17 strains of eumycetes including madurella mycetomatis, madurella grisea, pyrenochaeta romeroi, exophiala jeanselmei and leptosphaeria tompkinsii, isolated from cases of black grain mycetoma, was carried out against ketoconazole, itraconazole, miconazole and econazole by broth microdilution and agar dilution methods. itraconazole and ketoconazole were more active inhibiting 50% of the strains (mic 50) at 0.5 and 1 microgram ml-1 and 90% (mic 90) at 2.5 and ... | 1993 | 8389847 |
| pulmonary infection due to exophiala jeanselmei: successful treatment with ketoconazole. | 1993 | 8452960 | |
| peritonitis due to exophiala jeanselmei in a patient undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. | we describe the second reported case of peritonitis caused by the fungus exophiala jeanselmei in a patient on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (capd) and the first such patient to survive. management of the patient consisted of tenckhoff catheter removal and intravenous amphotericin b. | 1993 | 8503424 |
| phylogenetic analysis of ten black yeast species using nuclear small subunit rrna gene sequences. | the nuclear small subunit rrna genes of authentic strains of the black yeasts exophiala dermatitidis, wangiella dermatitidis, sarcinomyces phaemuriformis, capronia mansonii, nadsoniella nigra var. hesuelica, phaeoannellomyces elegans, phaeococcomyces exophialae, exophiala jeanselmei var. jeanselmei and e. castellanii were amplified by pcr and directly sequenced. a putative secondary structure of the nuclear small subunit rrna of exophiala dermatitidis was predicted from the sequence data. alignm ... | 1995 | 8526477 |
| nutritional physiology of type isolates of currently accepted species of exophiala and phaeococcomyces. | nutritional physiological and tolerance tests were performed for all type strains of species currently classified in the black yeast genera exophiala and phaeococcomyces, including some additional type strains of taxa recently reidentified as exophiala species. most described exophiala species can be distinguished by physiological characters. exophiala jeanselmei with its varieties, and e. castellanii should all be retained as separate taxa. the pairs of strains mycotorula schawii/exophiala derm ... | 1995 | 8526480 |
| mycetoma due to exophiala jeanselmei and mycobacterium chelonae in a 73-year-old man with idiopathic cd4+ t lymphocytopenia. | exophiala jeanselmei and mycobacterium chelonae were isolated from cutaneous nodules in a 73-year-old man with mycetoma of the right lower leg. further evaluation revealed cd4+ lymphocytopenia without evidence of hiv infection. antibodies to hiv 1/2, p24 antigen and hiv 1/2 (pcr) and reverse transcriptase activity were not detectable. the patient was not a member of any hiv risk group. he had not previously undergone therapy or suffered from immunodeficiency. this case clearly demonstrates that ... | 1995 | 8559188 |
| use of itraconazole for treating subcutaneous phaeohyphomycosis caused by exophiala jeanselmei. | 1995 | 8645826 | |
| dematiaceous fungi are an increasing cause of human disease. | the dematiaceous fungi appear to be an increasing cause of human disease. at the methodist hospital, in houston, texas, five cases of serious disease caused by these fungi occurred between 1987 and 1992. cerebral abscesses with xylohypha bantiana followed treatment for lymphoma. an infection of the lower extremity with exophiala jeanselmei var. castellanii followed cardiac surgery. peritoneal growth of alternaria tenuissima was a complication of peritoneal dialysis. cerebral abscesses with dacty ... | 1996 | 8824969 |
| exophiala jeanselmei variety castellanii and exophiala mansonii are synonyms. | 1996 | 8909871 | |
| exophiala jeanselmei peritonities in a patient on capd. | 1996 | 8914188 | |
| styrene metabolism in exophiala jeanselmei and involvement of a cytochrome p-450-dependent styrene monooxygenase. | the yeast-like fungus exophiala jeanselmei degrades styrene via initial oxidation of the vinyl side chain to phenylacetic acid, which is subsequently hydroxylated to homogentisic acid. the initial reactions are catalyzed by a nadph- and flavin adenine dinucleotide-dependent styrene monooxygenase, a styrene oxide isomerase, and a nad(+)-dependent phenylacetaldehyde dehydrogenase. the reduced co-difference spectrum of microsomal preparations of styrene-grown cells shows a characteristic absorption ... | 1996 | 8919815 |
| chromoblastomycosis in a patient with a cardiac transplant. | cases of chromoblastomycosis have been reported in immunocompromised patients. however, chromoblastomycosis is rarely caused by exophiala jeanselmei. while this organism has been reported to induce pheohyphomycosis in a recipient of a cardiac transplant, chromoblastomycosis has not been described. we present a case of chromoblastomycosis caused by exophiala jeanselmei in a patient who had received a cardiac transplant. | 1996 | 8934080 |
| subcutaneous phaeohyphomycosis and nocardiosis in a kidney transplant patient. | phaeohyphomycosis and nocardiosis are uncommon infections that are more frequently reported in immunocompromised patients. to our knowledge, this is the first report of subcutaneous phaeohyphomycosis caused by exophiala jeanselmei in association with systemic infection with nocardia asteroides. the patient's phaeohyphomycosis responded to surgical excision and multi-drug therapy, and the patient underwent prolonged therapy with trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole for treatment of the nocardiosis. | 1997 | 9146569 |
| in vitro antifungal activity of pneumocandin l-743,872 against a variety of clinically important molds. | the in vitro activity of the new antifungal drug pneumocandin l-743,872 against 55 isolates of clinically important molds was examined by an adapted macrobroth dilution method for yeasts. pneumocandin l-743,872 exhibited in vitro antifungal activity against alternaria sp., aspergillus flavus, aspergillus fumigatus, curvularia lunata, exophiala jeanselmei, fonsecaea pedrosoi, paecilomyces variotii, and scedosporium apiospermum. the drug appeared to lack significant in vitro inhibitory activity ag ... | 1997 | 9257774 |
| mitochondrial dna analysis of phialophora verrucosa. | restriction fragment length polymorphism (rflp) of mitochondrial dna (mtdna) was examined in 32 isolates of phialophora verrucosa (eight isolates from japan, 10 from china, four from the usa, six from venezuela and four from colombia) and in three of phialophora americana using five restriction enzymes. p. verrucosa isolates were divided into 10 mtdna types based on rflp patterns. phylogeny constructed on sequence divergence of mtdna indicated that p. verrucosa is a single species and isolates a ... | 1997 | 9470416 |
| 19f nuclear magnetic resonance as a tool to investigate microbial degradation of fluorophenols to fluorocatechols and fluoromuconates. | a method was developed to study the biodegradation and oxidative biodehalogenation of fluorinated phenols by 19f nuclear magnetic resonance (nmr). characterization of the 19f nmr spectra of metabolite profiles of a series of fluorophenols, converted by purified phenol hydroxylase, catechol 1,2-dioxygenase, and/or by the yeast-like fungus exophiala jeanselmei, provided possibilities for identification of the 19f nmr chemical shift values of fluorinated catechol and muconate metabolites. as an exa ... | 1998 | 9546160 |
| subcutaneous phaeohyphomycosis caused by exophiala jeanselmei in a patient with advanced tuberculosis. | we report a case of subcutaneous phaeohyphomycosis due to exophiala jeanselmei in an 84-year-old korean farmer suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis. he presented with six subcutaneous, fluctuant abscesses on the left distal forearm and wrist. subcutaneous infections by e. jeanselmei mostly present as a solitary cyst or abscess on an extremity. the present case showed localized multiple abscesses suggesting metastatic tuberculous abscesses or other pyogenic bacterial infections. | 1998 | 9602890 |
| [exophiala jeanselmei pheohyphomycosis in a senegalese patient with htlv-i infection and lymphoma]. | 1997 | 9612789 | |
| in vitro antifungal activity of nikkomycin z in combination with fluconazole or itraconazole. | nikkomycins are nucleoside-peptide antibiotics produced by streptomyces species with antifungal activities through the inhibition of chitin synthesis. we investigated the antifungal activities of nikkomycin z alone and in combination with fluconazole and itraconazole. checkerboard synergy studies were carried out by a macrobroth dilution procedure with rpmi 1640 medium at ph 6.0. at least 10 strains of the following fungi were tested: candida albicans, other candida spp., cryptococcus neoformans ... | 1999 | 10348760 |
| phialemonium fungemia: two documented nosocomial cases. | two fungal isolates recovered from the blood of two immunosuppressed patients are described as phialemonium curvatum. one patient died, while the other, who was infected with exophiala jeanselmei at the same time, survived after successful treatment with itraconazole. analysis of internal transcribed spacer sequences demonstrated that the isolates belonged to the same strain and that the source of infection was probably a catheter. the taxonomic position of p. curvatum is discussed, and phialemo ... | 1999 | 10405391 |
| phaeohyphomycosis of the epididymis caused by exophiala jeanselmei. | 1999 | 10411068 | |
| phaeohyphomycosis from exphiala jeanselmei with concomitant nocardia asteroides infection in a renal transplant recipient: case report and review of the literature. | a 59-year-old black man who received a cadaveric renal transplant 15 months earlier developed subcutaneous nodules on his right upper extremity that were identified as phaeohyphomycosis caused by exophiala jeanselmei. the man was admitted 4 weeks later with a swollen left arm and had nocardia asteroides in this area and in the apex of his left lung. he was treated with surgical excision, and itraconazole, imipenem-cilastatin, and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. with the potential presence of more ... | 1999 | 10453973 |
| exophiala jeanselmei causing late endophthalmitis after cataract surgery. | to report two cases of late endophthalmitis caused by exophiala jeanselmei after cataract surgery. | 1999 | 10577598 |
| steroid transformations with exophiala jeanselmei var. lecanii-corni and ceratocystis paradoxa. | the fungi exophiala jeanselmei var. lecanii-corni [imi (international mycological institute) 312989, uamh (university of alberta microfungus collection and herbarium) 8783] and ceratocystis paradoxa (imi 374529, uamh 8784) have been examined for their potential in steroid biotransformation. the study has determined that e. jeanselmei var. lecanii-corni effected overall anti-markovnikov hydration on dehydroisoandrosterone, and side-chain degradation on a variety of pregnanes. both ascomycetes wer ... | 1999 | 10577834 |
| [a case of pulmonary tuberculosis complicated with subcutaneous phaeohyphomycosis]. | a 78-year-old male was admitted to our hospital because of fever, sputum and cough. chest x-ray showed infiltrative shadows in the right lung field. smears of his sputum were positive for acid-fast bacilli. we found multiple subcutaneous abscesses on the right distal forearm. microscopic examination of skin biopsy specimens revealed granulation tissues with the proliferation of epitheloid cells with the scattering infiltrations of neurophils, giant cells and histiocytic cells. the examination of ... | 2000 | 10689816 |
| photo quiz. infection due to exophiala jeanselmei. | 1999 | 10691333 | |
| subcutaneous phaeohyphomycosis in transplant recipients: review of the literature and demonstration of in vitro synergy between antifungal agents. | infection of subcutaneous tissue by black fungi (subcutaneous phaeohyphomycosis) has only been reported in six transplant patients, all of whom were solid organ recipients. these patients presented with indolent, localized infections at least 1 year after transplant, while on maintenance immunosuppressive regimens. they were cured by surgical resection, either alone or in conjunction with antifungal agents. we report a case of subcutaneous phaeohyphomycosis occurring in a bone marrow transplant ... | 2000 | 10817234 |
| mitochondrial dna analysis of exophiala jeanselmei var. lecanii-corni and exophiala castellanii. | a japanese clinical isolate (ku-a-0094) which was identified by de hoog et al. as exophiala jeanselmei var. lecanii-corni with difficulty, was compared with 5 strains including the type cultures of e. jeanselmei var. lecanii-corni, var. jeanselmei and e. castellanii using rflp (restriction fragment length polymorphism) patterns of mtdna (mitochondrial dna). rflp patterns of kua-0094 were identical with those of e. jeanselmei var. lecanii-corni and different from those of e. castellanii with rest ... | 1999 | 10822506 |
| comparative in vitro antifungal activity of amphotericin b lipid complex, amphotericin b and fluconazole. | amphotericin b (amb) is considered the gold standard in the treatment of serious systemic mycoses in spite of its nephrotoxicity and adverse effects. association with lipids enables larger doses of amb to be given with a longer t((1/2)) and c(max), without the toxic effects at lower concentrations. liposome-encapsulated amb shows a lower affinity for mammalian cells and improves v(d), thus decreasing toxicity. amphotericin b lipid complex (ablc) is an amb formulation associated with a biodegrada ... | 2000 | 10859429 |
| characteristics of fungal growth in soft contact lenses. | six fungal species (fusarium sp, exophiala jeanselmei, penicillium spp, aspergillus niger, paecilomyces spp, and alternaria spp) were used to inoculate soft contact lenses. four types of soft lenses were used: high-water (58%) and low-water (38%) content lenses and lenses that were unworn or worn for 1 day. the fungi displayed a range of macroscopic and microscopic features that allowed differentiation of species. there was no statistically significant effect of lens water content on growth rate ... | 2000 | 10996761 |
| infection may not have been caused by exophiala jeanselmei. | 2000 | 11017850 |