| microsatellite typing to trace aspergillus flavus infections in a hematology unit. | assessing the relatedness of strains isolated from patients and their environment is instrumental in documenting the source of preventable health care-associated life-threatening aspergillus flavus human infection clusters. the present study aimed at identifying and selecting suitable microsatellite markers for a. flavus typing. this typing scheme was then applied to investigate the a. flavus epidemiology within a hematology unit in sfax, tunisia. use of a combination of five markers made it pos ... | 2010 | 20410353 |
| invasive aspergillosis: epidemiology and environmental study in haematology patients (sfax, tunisia). | invasive aspergillosis (ia) is a major opportunistic infection in haematology patients. preventive measures are important to control ia because diagnosis is difficult and the outcome of treatment is poor. we prospectively examined the environmental contamination by aspergillus and other fungal species and evaluated the prevalence of invasive aspergillosis in the protect unit of haematology. a three-year prospective study (december 2004-september 2007) was carried out in the department of haemato ... | 2010 | 19500260 |
| [ocular parasitoses and mycoses: cases diagnosed in the central university hospital of sfax between 1996 and 1999]. | parasitical and fungal ophthalmic infections are polymorphic and variably severe. they are rarely reported in publications. the aim of our study has been to specify the parasitic and fungal agents isolated from the ocular samples in our district (sfax-tunisia). we surveyed retrospectively the different ocular parasitosis and mycosis diagnosed in our laboratory (sfax hospital) over a 4 year-period (1996-1999). fungal ophthalmic infections were dominated by corneal localisations: 20 cases of kerat ... | 2001 | 11346972 |