| wool-colonizing micro-organisms capable of utilizing wool-lipids and fatty acids as sole sources of carbon and energy. | two keratinolytic fungi, chrysosporium keratinophilum and malbranchea anamorph of uncinocarpus reesii, and another three wool-colonizing fungi not previously reported to be keratinolytic, aspergillus fumigatus, a. flavus and scopulariopsis candida, were isolated from soil samples baited with animal wool. these fungi were tested for their ability to utilize wool-lipids as sole source of carbon and energy. the lipid contents of wool of various animals ranged between 2 and 5%. the different lipid e ... | 1990 | 2126788 |
| [first european case of adiaspiromycosis due to emmonsia parva (emmons and ashburn) ciferri and montemartini 1959, in a mammal: apodemus flavicollis]. | | 1975 | 1239973 |
| emmonsia parva as causal agent of adiaspiromycosis in a fox. | the authors report on adiaspiromycosis of a fox (vulpes vulpes) caused by emmonsia parva. species diagnosis was made on the basis of dimensions of the fungus found in the lungs of the animal, the histopathological picture of tissue changes and the properties of the isolated culture. the identification of the fungus was also confirmed by experimental infection. the differential diagnosis of the agent of adiaspiromycosis is discussed by experimental infection. the differential diagnosed of the age ... | 1975 | 1124461 |
| a dimorphic fungus causing disseminated infection in south africa. | the genus emmonsia contains three species that are associated with human disease. emmonsia crescens and emmonsia parva are the agents that cause adiaspiromycosis, and one human case of emmonsia pasteuriana infection has been described. we report a fungal pathogen within the genus emmonsia that is most closely related to e. pasteuriana in human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)-infected adults in south africa. | 2013 | 24106934 |
| a post-mortem study of respiratory disease in small mustelids in south-west england. | stoat (mustela erminea) and weasel (mustela nivalis) populations in south-west england are declining whilst polecats (mustela putorius), absent for over a century, are increasing. little is known about the health status of these species nationally. this study aimed at investigating respiratory disease in specimens found dead in south-west england. | 2016 | 27052849 |
| prp8 intein in ajellomycetaceae family pathogens: sequence analysis, splicing evaluation and homing endonuclease activity. | inteins are intervening sequences that are transcribed and translated with flanking host protein sequences and then self-excised by protein splicing. bi-functional inteins also contain a homing endonuclease responsible for their genetic mobility. the prp8 intein, the most widespread among fungi, occurs in important pathogens such as histoplasma capsulatum and paracoccidioides brasiliensis, from the ajellomycetaceae family. herein, we describe the bi-functional prp8 intein in two other ajellomyce ... | 2011 | 20682355 |
| emmonsiosis of subterranean rodents (bathyergidae, spalacidae) in africa and israel. | the presence of adiaspores of the fungal genus emmonsia was examined in the lungs of 85 mole rats representing 3 subterranean genera: blind mole rats (spalax galili and s. golani) from israel, ansell's mole-rats (cryptomys anselli) from zambia, and silvery mole-rats (heliophobius argenteocinereus) from malawi and zambia. emmonsiosis was found in 28% of the blind mole rats, 100% of the ansell's mole-rats, but in none of the silvery mole-rats. infection in african mole-rats was caused by emmonsia ... | 2005 | 16422298 |
| [pulmonary adiaspiromycosis: casual finding in a patient who died of yellow fever]. | during an outbreak of yellow fever (rural form of the infection) occurred recently in the state of goiás, brazil, a patient, with clinical manifestations suggestive of the infection, died in the university hospital of brasilia, df, on the fifth day from admission. postmortem examination revealed, microscopically, the characteristic alterations of the infection, and discovered in the lungs and hilar lymph nodes round microrganisms identified as adiaconidia of emmonsia parva var. crescens. | 2001 | 11340501 |
| [contribution to the morphologic diagnosis of lung adiaspiromycosis]. | the diagnosis of adiaspiromycosis is usually based on lung sections stained by hematoxylin-eosin, periodic acid schiff and methenamine silver. authors describe the fungus aspect examined by mucicarmin, picro-sirius and congo red methods, including polarized light microscopy. in doubtful cases, these methods could contribute to histopathological diagnosis of emmonsia parva var crescens. | 2000 | 11064587 |
| small subunit ribosomal dna sequence shows paracoccidioides brasiliensis closely related to blastomyces dermatitidis. | the similarities of paracoccidioidomycosis and blastomycosis are highly suggestive of a close relation of the two etiological agents. whereas the agent of the first disease is exclusively endemic in latin america, the agent of the latter one is endemic in north america and africa. in symptomatic travelers visiting both areas of endemicity, differentiation of the diseases might be impossible, even though therapy and prognosis for these two diseases differ significantly. in order to identify diffe ... | 2000 | 10970355 |
| pulmonary adiaspiromycosis in a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. | adiaspiromycosis is a noninfectious, nonarthropod-transmitted fungal infection that occurs worldwide in lower vertebrates, especially rodents. however, humans may become accidental hosts. reported here is a case of adiaspiromycosis of the lung in an hiv-positive, 40-year-old, bisexual man who first presented with cough and dyspnea. cultures of a bronchoalveolar lavage and protected brush specimen revealed the presence of fungal elements that were identified as emmonsia parva var. parva. the pati ... | 1999 | 10691202 |
| molecular genetic variation in emmonsia crescens and emmonsia parva, etiologic agents of adiaspiromycosis, and their phylogenetic relationship to blastomyces dermatitidis (ajellomyces dermatitidis) and other systemic fungal pathogens. | emmonsia crescens, an agent of adiaspiromycosis, blastomyces dermatitidis, the agent of blastomycosis, and histoplasma capsulatum, the agent of histoplasmosis, are known to form meiotic (sexual) stages in the ascomycete genus ajellomyces (onygenaceae, onygenales), but no sexual stage is known for e. parva, the type species of the genus emmonsia. to evaluate relationships among members of the putative ajellomyces clade, large-subunit ribosomal and internal transcribed spacer region dna sequences ... | 1998 | 9738044 |
| ajellomyces crescens sp. nov., taxonomy of emmonsia spp., and relatedness with blastomyces dermatitidis (teleomorph ajellomyces dermatitidis). | adiaspiromycosis is known primarily as a pulmonary infection of small burrowing mammals and rarely of humans, in which the tissue spore form consists of a large, globose, thick-walled, non-proliferating structure called an adiaspore. the causative agents have been placed in emmonsia or chrysosporium and treated as either two species or varieties. emmonsia parva (= chrysosporium parvum var. parvum) has been distinguished from e. crescens (= c parvum var. crescens) by differences in maximum growth ... | 1996 | 8912163 |
| phylogeny of dermatophytes and dimorphic fungi based on large subunit ribosomal rna sequence comparisons. | the phylogeny of dermatophytes and dimorphic fungi was considered using the large-subunit of ribosomal rna (25s rrna). aligned sequences of 595 nucleotides covering the two most divergent domains d1 and d2, permitted a comparison of phylogenetic relationships at different levels. the dimorphic species (onygenaceae) were significantly separated from dermatophytes (arthrodermataceae) and from a third group including geophilic or very weakly pathogenic species (onygenaceae and gymnoascaceae). on a ... | 1994 | 7844699 |
| a heterogeneous distribution of emmonsia parva var. crescens in an agro-ecosystem. | the lung tissue of 1143 rodents of five species, caught at a number of sites and habitats in an agro-ecosystem (southern moravia, czech republic) in 1988-1993, was examined for the presence of adiaspores of emmonsia parva var. crescens (emmons et jellison) van oorschot. the overall prevalence of adiasporomycosis was 16.6%, but its distribution varied significantly according to rodent species (clethrionomys glareolus 37.6%, apodemus flavicollis 33.3%, a. sylvaticus 21.1%, a microps 9.2%, microtus ... | 1995 | 7666301 |