| long-distance dispersal and recombination in environmental populations of cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii from india. | the basidiomycete yeast cryptococcus neoformans is a cause of significant morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised hosts throughout the world. the sporadic nature of the infection and the limited empirical evidence for direct human-to-human transmission have led to the belief that infections in humans are predominantly caused by the inhalation of basidiospores from environmental sources. therefore, analysing the structure of environmental populations of c. neoformans can significantly increa ... | 2008 | 18451060 |
| the expanding host tree species spectrum of cryptococcus gattii and cryptococcus neoformans and their isolations from surrounding soil in india. | this study reports the widespread prevalence of cryptococcus neoformans and cryptococcus gattii in decayed wood inside trunk hollows of 14 species representing 12 families of trees and from soil near the base of various host trees from delhi and several places in the indian states of uttar pradesh, haryana, tamil nadu and chandigarh union territory. of the 311 trees from which samples were obtained, 64 (20.5%) were found to contain strains of the c. neoformans species complex. the number of tree ... | 2008 | 18608895 |
| decaying wood in tree trunk hollows as a natural substrate for cryptococcus neoformans and other yeast-like fungi of clinical interest. | the occurrence of cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans and other yeast-like fungi of clinical interest in decaying wood inside tree trunk hollows, bark and other plant materials is reported. the var. neoformans was isolated from 3 of 45 (6.6%) wood and one of 390 eucalyptus bark samples. two of the positive wood samples came from a tree trunk hollow of butea monosperma (family: papilionaceae) growing in roshan ara garden, old delhi whereas the third was from a trunk hollow of tamarindus indic ... | 2001 | 11554580 |
| blastomyces dermatitidis in india: first report of its isolation from clinical material. | the isolation of blastomyces dermatitidis in india is reported from the bronchial aspirate of a female asthmatic patient who had never travelled abroad. the patient was a resident of rodhain, a small town in the district of badaun (uttar pradesh), situated about 250 km south-east of delhi. apart from its demonstration by culture and direct microscopy of a bronchial aspirate, b. dermatitidis was seen microscopically on two occasions in koh wet mounts and smears of sputum stained with periodic aci ... | 1983 | 6415825 |
| surveillance of multidrug resistant organisms in tertiary care hospital in delhi, india. | surveillance of multi drug resistant organisms in a health care setting is a necessity to have optimum treatment out come and less of treatment failures. once any health care setting gets colonized with multi drug resistant organisms, it is very difficult to decontaminate the environment. on review of our data, for 12 months of year 2008 the prevalence of difficult to treat organisms with poor clinical outcome especially in icus have been identified. the need for surveillance, prescription audit ... | 2010 | 21563611 |
| cryptococcus randhawai sp. nov., a novel anamorphic basidiomycetous yeast isolated from tree trunk hollow of ficus religiosa (peepal tree) from new delhi, india. | a novel anamorphic cryptococcus species is described, which was isolated in new delhi (india) from decaying wood of a tree trunk hollow of ficus religiosa. on the basis of sequence analysis of the d1/d2 domains of the 26s rrna gene and the internally transcribed spacer (its)-1 and its-2 region sequences, the isolate belonged to the cryptococcus albidus cluster (filobasidiales, tremellomycetes) and was closely related to cryptococcus saitoi, cryptococcus cerealis and cryptococcus friedmannii with ... | 2010 | 20091225 |