Rare and undersampled dimorphic basidiomycetes

Authors: Kachalkin AV, Turchetti B, Inácio J, Carvalho C, Mašínová T, Pontes A, Röhl O, Glushakova AM, Akulov A, Baldrian P, Begerow D, Buzzini P, Sampaio JP, Yurkov AM, Yurkov A
Publication Year: 2019
Journal: Mycological Progress
Link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11557-019-01491-5

The diversity of yeasts has grown rapidly as the discovery of new species has benefited from intensified sampling and largely improved identification techniques. An environmental study typically reports the isolation of yeast species, some of which are new to science. Rare species represented by a few isolates often do not result in a taxonomic description. […]
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Unraveling Sarcocystis miescheriana and Sarcocystis suihominis infections in wild boar

Authors: Amaro A, Coelho C, Gomes J, Inácio J, Lopes AP, Mesquita JR, Pires I, Vieira-Pinto M
Publication Year: 2015
Journal: Veterinary Parasitology
Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304401715003982?via%3Dihub%20

Sarcocystis species are worldwide spread cyst-forming protozoa that can infect wild boar but little is known about the prevalence of these parasites. In this study we assessed the prevalence of Sarcocystis spp. infections in wild boars from northeastern Portugal, for which novel PCR testing assays targeting Sarcocystis genus, S. miescheriana and S. suihominis were implemented, […]
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HIV/AIDS-Associated Cryptococcosis in Portugal Spanning the Pre- to Post-HAART Era: A Retrospective Assessment at the Genotypic Level Based on URA5-RFLP.

Authors: Maduro AP, Gonçalves L, Inácio J, Martins ML, Faria NC, Teles FRR
Publication Year: 2015
Journal: Current Microbiology
Link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00284-015-0873-z%20

Cryptococcosis caused by the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans is an opportunistic mycosis, infecting mainly immunodepressed individuals. Molecular epidemiology studies of cryptococcosis in Europe are limited. This paper presents a retrospective study of cryptococcosis in 105 cryptococcal isolates from two hospitals in Lisbon, Portugal, among HIV/AIDS patients, from 1991 to 2007. Among these patients, the number of […]
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Fundamental niche prediction of the pathogenic yeasts Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii in Europe

Authors: Akcaglar S, Bertout S, Boekhout T, Cerikcioglu N, Cogliati M, Colom MF, Criseo G, De Donno A, Desnos-Ollivier M, Dipineto L, Dromer F, Ellabib MS, Ergin C, Ferreira-Paim K, Hagen F, Ilkit M, Inácio J, Kwon-Chung KJ, Macci C, Marchese A, Meyer W, Mlinaric-Missoni E, Montagna MT, Nardoni S, Pasquale V, Polacheck I, Puccianti E, Ranque S, Rickerts V, Sampaio AC, Scopa A, Susever S, Trovato L, Varma A, Velegraki A, Vencà AC, Vezzulli L
Publication Year: 2017
Journal: Environmental Microbiology.
Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1462-2920.13915

Fundamental niche prediction of Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii in Europe is an important tool to understand where these pathogenic yeasts have a high probability to survive in the environment and therefore to identify the areas with high risk of infection. In this study, occurrence data for C. neoformans and C. gattii were compared by […]
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Development and evaluation of a two-step multiplex TaqMan real-time PCR assay for detection/quantification of different genospecies of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato

Authors: Nunes M, Parreira R, Carreira T, Inácio J, Vieira ML
Publication Year: 2017
Journal: Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases
Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877959X16302771

Nowadays, at least four clinically important B. burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.) genospecies (B. afzelii, B. garinii, B. burgdorferi sensu stricto (s.s.) and B. lusitaniae) circulate in Portugal. Each genospecies has a different tropism that resuls in a diverse array of clinical manifestations. The standard diagnostic procedure used is normally simple, nevertheless, during the “window-period” phase, […]
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Rare and undersampled dimorphic basidiomycetes

Unraveling Sarcocystis miescheriana and Sarcocystis suihominis infections in wild boar

HIV/AIDS-Associated Cryptococcosis in Portugal Spanning the Pre- to Post-HAART Era: A Retrospective Assessment at the Genotypic Level Based on URA5-RFLP.

Fundamental niche prediction of the pathogenic yeasts Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii in Europe

Development and evaluation of a two-step multiplex TaqMan real-time PCR assay for detection/quantification of different genospecies of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato

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