| indoor airborne fungal spores, house dampness and associations with environmental factors and respiratory health in children. | children living in a damp house are more likely to suffer from respiratory symptoms and it has been suggested that exposure to fungi is an important contributing factor. however, more knowledge about underlying mechanisms for the association are needed. | 1998 | 9641573 |
| the epidemiology of candidaemia and mould infections in australia. | a retrospective review of candida bloodstream infections (bsi) in australian hospitals between 1995 and 1998 was performed. nine tertiary referral hospitals in the states of new south wales, victoria, south australia and queensland participated. of all isolates, 56% were candida albicans, 14% candida parapsilosis, 13% candida glabrata, 5% candida krusei and 4.5% candida tropicalis. there were significant differences in the distribution of species in different patient groups. among surgical patie ... | 2002 | 11801574 |
| prophylaxis and treatment of patients with aspergillosis: an overview, including the royal melbourne hospital experience. | patients receiving allogeneic bone marrow transplants are at risk of developing aspergillus infections. the pre-transplant risk factors for the development of invasive disease include prolonged neutropenia, colonization with aspergillus sp. or a prior history of fungal infection. post-transplant risk factors include severe graft-versus-host disease with concomitant high-dose corticosteroid therapy, and colonization with aspergillus sp. the antifungal prophylaxis of selected high-risk pre-transpl ... | 2002 | 11801586 |
| microbiology of wheat and flour milling in australia. | a survey was undertaken to determine the microbiological status of australian wheat and the distribution of microorganisms in the flour milling fractions and end products. a total of 650 milling process and end product samples was obtained from nine flour mills located in new south wales (4), queensland (2), victoria (2) and western australia (1) during the 1997-1998 and 1998-1999 wheat seasons. most frequent (modal) counts in wheat and flour were, respectively, as follows: aerobic mesophilic pl ... | 2003 | 12810278 |
| fungal keratitis in melbourne. | description of the clinical and microbiological spectrum of fungal keratitis at a tertiary eye care hospital in melbourne, australia. | 2007 | 17362452 |
| fungal keratitis in far north queensland, australia. | aboriginals and torres strait islanders form a significant proportion of the population in far north queensland and are at increased risk for many eye conditions. this study describes the pattern of fungal keratitis seen at cairns base hospital, far north queensland, australia. | 2008 | 19128375 |
| utility of a proposed csp typing nomenclature for australian aspergillus fumigatus isolates: identification of additional csp types and suggested modifications. | a recently developed csp typing scheme and proposed nomenclature was applied to a collection of 164 clinical and environmental aspergillus fumigatus isolates from melbourne, australia. fifteen csp variants were observed overall, including three that were not reported in the original nomenclature that described 19 csp variants, raising the possibility of phylogeographic differences between the australian and the previously studied european and north american a. fumigatus populations. however, tho ... | 2009 | 19524623 |
| clinical profile of adult cystic fibrosis patients with frequent epidemic clones of pseudomonas aeruginosa. | earlier reports suggested that pseudomonas aeruginosa frequent epidemic clones circulating in cystic fibrosis (cf) centres had increased virulence. however, recent data show no consistent associations with virulence, and suggest attenuation of virulence in chronic infection. changes to infection control programmes in relation to frequent epidemic clones should be based on their frequency, virulence across all age groups and mode of acquisition. the australian epidemic strain-1 (aes-1) (or the me ... | 2010 | 20573059 |