Neglected endemic mycoses

F Queiroz-Telles, AH Fahal, DR Falci… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Fungi often infect mammalian hosts via the respiratory route, but traumatic transcutaneous
implantation is also an important source of infections. Environmental exposure to spores of …

Chromoblastomycosis

F Queiroz-Telles, S de Hoog… - Clinical microbiology …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Chromoblastomycosis (CBM), also known as chromomycosis, is one of the most prevalent
implantation fungal infections, being the most common of the gamut of mycoses caused by …

The global distribution of actinomycetoma and eumycetoma

D Emery, DW Denning - PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background Mycetoma, a chronic infection of the skin and underlying structures, affects
those with a close relationship to the land, often in resource-poor areas of the world …

Mycetoma in the Sudan: an update from the mycetoma research centre, University of Khartoum, Sudan

A Fahal, ELS Mahgoub, AMEL Hassan… - PLoS neglected …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
This communication reports on the Mycetoma Research Centre of the University of
Khartoum, Sudan experience on 6,792 patients seen during the period 1991–2014. The …

Sco** review of Neglected Tropical Disease Interventions and Health Promotion: A framework for successful NTD interventions as evidenced by the literature

C Ackley, M Elsheikh, S Zaman - PLoS neglected tropical …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) affect more than one billion people
globally. A Public Library of Science (PLOS) journal dedicated to NTDs lists almost forty …

Mycetoma: the spectrum of clinical presentation

AH Fahal, SH Suliman, R Hay - Tropical medicine and infectious disease, 2018 - mdpi.com
Mycetoma is a chronic infection, newly designated by the World Health Organization (WHO)
as a neglected tropical disease, which is endemic in tropical and subtropical regions. It …

Mycetoma: a clinical dilemma in resource limited settings

P Emmanuel, SP Dumre, S John, J Karbwang… - Annals of clinical …, 2018 - Springer
Background Mycetoma is a chronic mutilating disease of the skin and the underlying tissues
caused by fungi or bacteria. Although recently included in the list of neglected tropical …

A holistic approach to the mycetoma management

SM Bakhiet, AH Fahal, AM Musa… - PLoS neglected …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Mycetoma, one of the badly neglected tropical diseases, it is a localised chronic
granulomatous inflammatory disease characterised by painless subcutaneous mass and …

Closing the mycetoma knowledge gap

W van de Sande, A Fahal, SA Ahmed… - Medical …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
On 28th May 2016, mycetoma was recognized as a neglected tropical disease by the World
Health Organization. This was the result of a 4-year journey starting in February 2013 with a …

[HTML][HTML] Chromoblastomycosis: a neglected tropical disease

F Queiroz-Telles - Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São …, 2015 - SciELO Brasil
Chromoblastomycosis (CMB) is a chronic fungal infection of the skin and the subcutaneous
tissue caused by a transcutaneous traumatic inoculation of a specific group of dematiaceous …