| endophthalmitis of probable endogenous origin caused by scedosporium boydii: a case report. | mycotic ocular infections caused by the scedosporium apiospermum species complex are challenging to treat because of the delayed diagnoses and poor responses to antifungal drugs and surgical treatment. | 2016 | 26874584 |
| identification of scedosporium boydii catalase a1 gene, a reactive oxygen species detoxification factor highly expressed in response to oxidative stress and phagocytic cells. | scedosporium boydii is an opportunistic filamentous fungus which may be responsible for a large variety of infections in both immunocompetent and immunocompromised individuals. this fungus belongs to the scedosporium apiospermum species complex which usually ranks second among the filamentous fungi colonizing the airways of patients with cystic fibrosis (cf). species of the s. apiospermum complex are able to chronically colonize the cf airways suggesting pathogenic mechanisms allowing persistenc ... | 2015 | 26615753 |
| assessing micafungin/triazole combinations for the treatment of invasive scedosporiosis due to scedosporium apiospermum and scedosporium boydii. | scedosporium infections are associated with high therapeutic failure rates. combination therapy may be an alternative approach to improve outcome. the in vitro and in vivo efficacy of micafungin plus posaconazole or plus voriconazole was investigated herein. | 2014 | 24986494 |
| cluster analysis of scedosporium boydii infections in a single hospital. | scedosporiosis is a rare, but often fatal mycotic infection occurring in immunosuppressed as well as in immunocompetent patients. over a period of 14 months, scedosporium boydii isolates were sent to our reference laboratory from six immunocompetent patients treated at a single hospital in germany. in analogy to the eortc/msg criteria, four patients were classified as proven invasive scedosporiosis cases, and two patients as probable or possible cases. of note, in five patients scedosporiosis wa ... | 2015 | 26330287 |
| radioiodine uptake in inactive pulmonary tuberculosis. | radioiodine may accumulate at sites of inflammation or infection. we have seen such accumulation in six thyroid cancer patients with a history of previously treated pulmonary tuberculosis. we also review the causes of false-positive radioiodine uptake in lung infection/inflammation. eight foci of radioiodine uptake were seen on six iodine-123 diagnostic scans. in three foci, the uptake was focal and indistinguishable from thyroid cancer pulmonary metastases from thyroid cancer. in the remaining ... | 1999 | 10369953 |
| pseudo-allescheria boydii endophthalmitis. | | 1996 | 8789871 |
| lumbar petriellidium boydii osteomyelitis with a systemic presentation. | | 1994 | 7949705 |
| superior sagittal sinus infection with petriellidium boydii: case report. | a case of infection of the superior sagittal sinus with petriellidium boydii is reported. this relatively common fungal pathogen rarely invades the central nervous system. immunological compromise and poor personal hygiene seem to be common attributes shared by this patient and the 4 previous patients reported to have suffered invasion of the central nervous system by this organism. this report is unique in that it is the first demonstrating apparent hematogenous dissemination of this organism t ... | 1989 | 2710306 |
| [mycetoma caused by petriellidium boydii: treatment with ketoconazole]. | a case of mycetoma of the lower leg (madura foot) with bone involvement caused by petriellidium boydii is presented. after an initially favourable therapeutic response to ketoconazole (2 x 200 mg/die) the process recurred despite proven sensitivity of the fungus in vitro. it could not be controlled with conservative treatment and ultimately necessitated amputation of the lower leg. a striking, hitherto unreported feature of mycetoma was the episodic occurrence of circulating immune complexes wit ... | 1985 | 4044257 |
| successful medical treatment of pulmonary petriellidiosis. | we have reported a case with culture and serologic evidence of pulmonary infection with petriellidium boydii treated with intravenous miconazole, resulting in dramatic symptomatic improvement, stabilization of x-ray changes, and clearing of petriellidium on sputum culture. although no biopsy was done to establish absolute diagnosis of invasive disease, and thus the results of this case cannot be taken as an absolute criterion for therapy, this may represent the first medical cure of pulmonary in ... | 1985 | 4039074 |
| [apropos of a case of chronic lung disease caused by allescheria-boydii]. | | 2004 | 6545659 |
| petriellidium (allescheria) boydii orbital and brain abscess treated with intravenous miconazole. | a previously healthy 4-year-old boy suffered a penetrating injury to his left orbit and left frontal lobe, which resulted in an infection by petriellidium boydii. the patient was successfully treated with intravenous miconazole and multiple debridements. | 1984 | 6731542 |
| petriellidium boydii pachymeningitis treated with miconazole and ketoconazole. | a very rare case of petriellidium boydii pachymeningitis is described. rarer still is the stabilization of this case for a prolonged period. miconazole and ketaconazole both seemed useful in the treatment, and their role is discussed. | 1984 | 6324020 |
| disseminated petriellidiosis (allescheriasis) in a patient with refractory acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. | a case of disseminated petriellidiosis is presented. this complication occurred in a patient with refractory acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, who was receiving repeated courses of cytotoxic drugs, antibiotics and prolonged corticosteroid therapy. the diagnosis of infection by petriellidium boydii was established by pathological and microbiological studies of a specimen obtained at open lung biopsy. the portal of entry was probably through the lung spreading later via the blood stream to the brain, ... | 1984 | 6584444 |
| petriellidosis (pseudallescheriasis) in southwestern ontario, canada. | seven cases of petriellidosis (pseudallescheriasis) in southwestern ontario residents and one in a saskatchewan patient are recorded. brief clinical histories are given of two of these cases. the first isolation of petriellidium boydii from soil in ontario is also described. | 1984 | 6463808 |
| [case of thoracic empyema due to petriellidium boydii (allescheria boydii)]. | | 1983 | 6686265 |
| petriellidium (allescheria) boydii mycetoma in an immunosuppressed host. | | 1983 | 6357546 |
| antifungal agents used in systemic mycoses. activity and therapeutic use. | the development of the polyene antibiotic, amphotericin b, provided for the first time a drug which was clinically effective in many serious mycotic diseases. unfortunately, it requires parenteral administration and is often toxic, factors which limit the total cumulative dose which can be given. efforts to utilise combinations of amphotericin b with other agents were best realised with amphotericin b/flucytosine in cryptococcal meningitis, and to a lesser degree in systemic candidiasis. more re ... | 1983 | 6297871 |
| [inflammatory occlusion of the lacrimal and nasal pathways caused by monosporium apiospermum (allescheria boydii)]. | | 1982 | 6892039 |
| maxillary sinusitis: isolation of scedosporium (monosporium) apiospermum, anamorph of petriellidium (allescheria) boydii. | | 2004 | 6984735 |
| fungal arthritis simulating juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. | petriellidium boydii is often isolated from maduromycosis but has recently been associated with arthritis. a previously healthy 6-year-old boy developed chronic purulent arthritis of the knee after a bicycle accident. culture of aspirate grew no pathogens and antibiotic treatment had no effect. culture of synovial fluid grew p boydii, which responded initially to amphotericin but reappeared after six months. subsequent treatment with miconazole was stopped after development of haematuria. the fu ... | 1982 | 6288166 |
| near-drowning complicated by brain abscess due to petriellidium boydii. | extracutaneous infection from petriellidium boydii is an unusual occurrence despite the ubiquity of the organism in nature. central nervous system infection by this organism is extremely rare, only seven previous reports having been found. the rarity of this manifestation prompted the report of a brain abscess occurring in a previously healthy youth after a near-drowning. the source of the infection was likely to have been the river water at the accident site, from which p boydii was isolated. a ... | 1982 | 7103801 |
| asymptomatic pulmonary coin lesion with petriellidium boydii. | | 1982 | 7058367 |
| petriellidium boydii fungus ball in a patient with active tuberculosis. | | 1982 | 7070474 |
| petriellidium boydii infection of the knee: a case report. | a case of petriellidium boydii (synonym: allescheria boydii) infection of the knee joint is described. it followed a penetrating soft tissue injury with a pitchfork. such infections are rare in this country and bone involvement has not been recorded previously except in maduramycosis contracted in tropical areas. | 1982 | 7163820 |
| maduromycosis "allescheria boydii" septic arthritis of the knee: a case report. | septic arthritis due to fungal agents is rare in temperate climates such as the united states, and maduromycosis due to auescheria boydii is especially uncommon. of the 21 previously reported cases, only two involved the knee j'oint. reported here is a case of allescheria hoyan infection of the left knee of a 5-yearold girl, with eventual successful cure by a combination of surgical synovectomy and amphotericin b chemotherapy. | 1981 | 24823095 |
| [autochthonous mycetoma caused by petriellidium boydii (author's transl)]. | a case of authochthonous mycetoma with petriellidium boydii as the causal agent, located in the third distal of the lower left leg is reported. the patient was a 35 year old male without any associated pathology. it is assumed that the infecting organism entered the tissues through a lesion caused a few years previously during a traffic accident. on admittance patient was found to have two fistulas on the upper part of the external malleolus from which pus with small yellow granules measuring 1 ... | 1981 | 7199107 |
| exoantigen test for identification of petriellidium boydii cultures. | cultures of petriellidium boydii were serologically identified by detection of their exoantigens with an immunodiffusion procedure. the technique, which is specific and sensitive, allowed the rapid identification and differentiation of 12 isolates of p. boydii from numerous other morphologically similar hyphomycetes. the antigen-antiserum reference system and the production, by two different techniques, of exoantigens used in the identification of p. boydii are described. | 1981 | 6793617 |
| endophthalmitis caused by petriellidium boydii. | | 1981 | 6971054 |
| petriellidium boydii (allescheria boydii). necrotizing pneumonia in a normal host. | | 1981 | 7452890 |
| petriellidium boydii infection of the sphenoid sinus. | petriellidium boydii infection of the sphenoid sinus in a previously healthy woman was initially diagnosed by immunofluorescent staining of biopsy tissue sections. the diagnosis was confirmed by demonstrating p. boydii precipitins in serum and by isolating the infecting fungus. despite surgical drainage and intensive therapy with miconazole nitrate, the outcome, because of intracranial extension, was fatal. | 1980 | 7446495 |
| keratomycosis due to allescheria boydii. | | 1971 | 5104573 |
| mycetoma of the palpebral conjunctiva caused by allescheria boydii (monosporium apiospermum). | | 1968 | 5748676 |
| [pulmonary allescheriasis (mycetoma due to allescheria boydii)]. | | 2008 | 5754154 |
| maduromycosis due to allescheria boydii. | | 1968 | 5694714 |
| distribution of allescheria boydii shear, in soil of maharashtra state. | | 1968 | 5690543 |
| susceptibility of allescheria boydii to amphotericin b. | | 1968 | 5735389 |
| inhibition of growth of allescheria boydii by naturally occurring estrogen. | | 1968 | 5735388 |
| keratitis due to allescheria boydii (monosporium apiospermum). | | 1966 | 5334519 |
| allescheria boydii and emmonsia ciferrina isolated from patients with chronic pulmonary infections. | | 1966 | 6009085 |
| a case of mycetoma with serological diagnosis of allescheria boydii. | | 1966 | 4962669 |
| pulmonary mycetoma due to allescheria boydii. | | 1966 | 5934362 |
| allescheria boydii--unique systemic dissemination to thyroid and brain. | | 1965 | 5845240 |
| growth of allescheria boydii in anitbiotic-containing media. | cazin, john, jr. (university of iowa, iowa city), and david w. decker. growth of allescheria boydii in antibiotic-containing media. j. bacteriol. 90:1308-1313. 1965.-thirteen isolates of allescheria boydii were surveyed for their ability to grow and sporulate on media containing cycloheximide and chloramphenicol. the fungus grew well in the presence of 4 to 8 mg/ml of cycloheximide, whereas ascocarps and coremia were always inhibited at a concentration of the drug lower than that required to inh ... | 1965 | 5848328 |
| pachymeningitis secondary to allescheria boydii. case report. | | 1972 | 5061802 |
| allescheria boydii infection of the brain. | | 1972 | 5064516 |
| pathogenicity of allescheria boydii for mice. | allescheria boydii and its imperfect state, monosporium apiospermum, were studied to determine whether asexual or sexual strains might exhibit different pathogenic potentials for mice. six different strains of the fungus were inoculated into mice by the intravenous, intracerebral, intraperitoneal, and intranasal routes. cortisone-treated mice regularly developed infections after inoculation by any of the routes tested. mice that had not been treated with cortisone were most susceptible to infect ... | 1973 | 4795949 |
| allescheria boydii mycetoma complicating pulmonary sarcoid. | | 1974 | 4411918 |
| letter: petriellidium boydii from the reproductive tracts of mares. | | 2009 | 1058353 |
| [isolation of a. boydii from the soil of the tadzhik ssr]. | the authors present a detailed description of a pathogenic strain of allescheria boydii shear, isolated from a soil sample obtained from the karst cave in the vicinity of the iskan derkerev lake, the tajik ssr (the morphology of the conidial and ascosporic stages of the fungus, its physiological and biochemical activity and experimental pathogenicity). data on the existence of this causative agent as a saprophyte in the soil of various continents are also given. a conclusion was drawn that a. bo ... | 1975 | 123685 |
| serological diagnosis of petriellidosis (allescheriosis). i. isolation and characterization of soluble antigens from allescheria boydu and monosporium apiospermum. | soluble antigens in culture filtrates of three strains of petriellidium boydii and three strains of monosporium apiospermum were examined. antigens were separated from concentrated crude filtrates by anion-exchange chromatography. a single major peak (antigen 1), constituting a significant proportion of the total recoverable carbohydrate, was the only product isolated from each of four chromatographed filtrates. depending on the fungus strain, antigen 1 consisted of 90--96% carbohydrate, 3-4% pr ... | 1976 | 819833 |
| pulmonary infection with allescheria boydii. | allescheria boydii, the most common fungus isolated from north american maduromycosis, is a well-described pathogen. reports of its isolation from sites other than the extremities are rare. only ten cases of pulmonary infection are recorded in the literature. of these, two are primary infections, and eight are secondary. an eleventh case is reported. although there are some elements in the patient's history that indicate that this infection is secondary, the authors regard the infection a primar ... | 1976 | 998563 |
| isolation of allescheria boydii from pleural fluid. | allescheria boydii was repeatedly isolated from thoracentesis fluid from a patient with a right pleural effusion. histological study of methanamine-stained pleural tissue revealed the presence of septate hyphae. after a thoracotomy and decortication, the patient's symptoms cleared, and he has remained asymptomatic over a postoperative period of 13 months. | 1977 | 845248 |
| allescheria boydii osteomyelitis following multiple steroid injections and surgery. | this is a report of a 46-year-old male who developed an allescheria boydii infection secondary to excision of an interdigital neuroma. previously reported cases of infection occurred in an immunosuppressed patient and in patients on systemic corticosteroid therapy, but not associated with a surgical wound. this patient received multiple local corticosteroid injections which may have produced local as well as systemic immunosuppression. fungal cultures were not taken for many months and thus the ... | 2013 | 598124 |
| [maduromycosis of the foot caused by petriellidium boydii. report of a case]. | | 1977 | 564544 |
| pulmonary allescheriasis: report of a case from ontario, canada. | a case of pulmonary allescheriasis in a 53-year-old woman residing in london, ontario, canada, is described. this patient entered the hospital complaining of dyspnea, a productive cough, and pains in the neck and left shoulder. roentgenograms of the chest revealed a large cavity in the upper lobe of the right lung, and xerograms showed an intracavitary mycetoma. monosporium apiospermum, the imperfect form of the fungus allescheria boydii, was grown from her sputum and from the mycetoma as well. ... | 1977 | 879106 |
| allescheria boydii infections in the immunosuppressed host. | allescheria boydii, a true fungus frequently isolated from soil, is best known as a causative agent of maduromycosis of the foot. in our report we describe two patients under treatment for acute leukemia who died from rapidly progressive a. boydii infections. one patient had signs of central nervous system infection and was found at autopsy to have had a large brain abscess. the second patient had a cavitary necrotizing pneumonia with thoracic inlet obstruction (pancoast's syndrome) and failed t ... | 1977 | 270906 |
| allescheria (petriellidium) boydii brain abscess in a child with leukemia. | a 3-year-old boy with acute lymphoblastic leukemia developed a right frontal lobe abscess from which allescheria (petriellidium) boydii was cultured. the mycotic infection complicating his underlying disease appeared to be confined to the brain. surgical drainage and therapy with amphotericin b were followed by eventual recovery with no neurologic deficits. | 1978 | 274919 |
| maduromycosis (allescheria boydii) infection of the hand. a case report. | | 1978 | 566757 |
| petriellidium boydii (allescheria boydii) sphenoidal sinusitis. | | 1978 | 642177 |
| petriellidium boydii sinusitis. | | 1978 | 682322 |
| corneal monosporiosis. a review and report of 1 case. | reviewing the world literature and including some personal communications and our own case, we have found 14 cases of keratomycosis by monosporium apiospermum or by its perfect state petrillidium (allescheria) boydii. a table with only the 12 well-documented observations was prepared. | 1979 | 314080 |
| allescheria boydii osteomyelitis. | | 2005 | 445916 |
| deep infections from petriellidium boydii treated with miconazole. | infections due to the fungus petriellidium boydii, particularly deep infections, are being reported with increased frequency. the organism generally is resistant to antifungal agents. three patients were treated with miconazole, a new drug demonstrated to be active in vitro against the fungus. miconazole alone was effective in treating two patients. the third patient showed an excellent therapeutic result with concomitant surgery. this experience confirms the in vitro results and suggests the ut ... | 1979 | 758531 |
| pulmonary infection with petriellidium boydii. | a 52-year-old woman with pulmonary involvement with petriellidium boydii in a bronchiectatic lung segment is described. pulmonary involvement with this organism has been most frequently described in patients with underlying systemic diseases or compromised immune systems. this patient apparently had neither problem and was normal in all other aspects. surgical resection was done to avoid local pulmonary parenchymal invasion or dissemination of this fungus. the patient is now in good health two y ... | 1979 | 432688 |
| humoral response to experimental petriellidiosis. | the humoral antibody response elicited by experimental infection with petriellidium boydii and monosporium apiospermum was studied. the variables of fungus strain, route of inoculation, and concentration of inoculum were examined. viable spores from three strains of p. boydii and from three strains of m. apiospermum were inoculated intravenously into mice. serum specimens were tested for antibody by the microtiter indirect hemagglutination assay. at 4 weeks after infection, the percentage of pos ... | 1979 | 112059 |
| [articular mycetoma caused by petriellidium boydii. report of a case]. | | 2008 | 7192011 |
| disseminated petriellidium boydii and pacemaker endocarditis. | clinical and morphologic findings are described in a 62 year old woman with "mixed connective tissue disease" who received corticosteroid therapy, and in whom disseminated and fatal petriellidium boydii infection with right-sided endocarditis developed. the patient was a gardener. the organism is ubiquitous in soil in many part of the united states; therefore, it is likely that the infection was introduced by this means. endocarditis due to p. boydii has not been reported previously. in the pati ... | 1980 | 7192491 |
| carbohydrate nutrition and sporulation of allescheria boydii. | cazin, john, jr. (university of iowa, iowa city), and david w. decker. carbohydrate nutrition and sporulation of allescheria boydii. j. bacteriol. 88:1624-1628. 1964.-the influence of various carbohydrates on the growth and sporulation of allescheria boydii was studied by incorporating the test substance in a medium consisting of the inorganic salts mixture contained in czapek dox medium with 2% agar. the data indicate that a wide variety of carbohydrates serve adequately as the sole source of c ... | 1964 | 14240948 |
| allescheria boydii isolated from a patient with chronic prostatitis. | | 1961 | 13769969 |
| [on the recognition of cephalosporium gordoni nov. spec. allescheria boydii shear, 1922, strain 1699 (dr. a. cury). part ii. contributions to the structural analysis of the newly isolated fungal pigment rubacin]. | | 1959 | 14424881 |
| [on the recognition of cephalosporium gordoni (nov. spec. allescheria boydii shear, 1922) strain 1699 (dr. a. cury) part 1. the systematic position and pigment formation capacity of the fungus]. | | 1959 | 14424880 |
| pulmonary infection with allescheria boydii; report of a fatal case. | | 1958 | 13583422 |
| nutrition and sporulation of allescheria boydii. | | 1957 | 13416169 |
| [the o2 consumption of the x-irradiated mycelium of allescheria boydii 1699 in a medium containing biotin]. | | 1955 | 13298844 |
| [experimental production of maduromycotic granulations by monosporium apiospermum and allescheria boydii]. | | 1955 | 13283471 |
| isolation of allescheria boydii from sputum. | | 1955 | 14350171 |
| [three cases of podalic mycetoma, with special reference to that caused by allescheria boydii, 1921]. | | 2008 | 13273735 |
| utilization of biocytin by allescheria boydii. | | 1950 | 14790812 |
| on the pigments of allescheria boydii. | | 1950 | 14781798 |
| study on the vitamin nutrition of allescheria boydii shear. | | 1950 | 15400316 |
| allescheria boydii, causative agent in a case of meningitis. | | 1948 | 18902459 |