An overview of bats microbiota and its implication in transmissible diseases

L Federici, M Masulli, V De Laurenzi… - Frontiers in …, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
Recent pandemic events have raised the attention of the public on the interactions between
human and environment, with particular regard to the more and more feasible transmission …

Infection of bats with Histoplasma species

HC Gugnani, DW Denning - Medical mycology, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Histoplasma species infect humans and animals, notably bats. Histoplasma species are
thermally dimorphic fungi existing in mycelial form in the natural environment and in yeast …

Worldwide Phylogenetic Distributions and Population Dynamics of the Genus Histoplasma

MM Teixeira, JSL Patané, ML Taylor… - PLoS neglected …, 2016‏ - journals.plos.org
Background Histoplasma capsulatum comprises a worldwide complex of saprobiotic fungi
mainly found in nitrogen/phosphate (often bird guano) enriched soils. The microconidia of …

Considerations about the Geographic Distribution of Histoplasma Species

ML Taylor, MR Reyes-Montes… - Applied and …, 2022‏ - journals.asm.org
Histoplasmosis is a mycotic infection principally affecting pulmonary tissue; sometimes,
histoplasmosis can progress into a systemic disease. This infection involves …

Use of population genetics to assess the ecology, evolution, and population structure of Coccidioides

MM Teixeira, BM Barker - Emerging infectious diseases, 2016‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
During the past 20 years, a general picture of the genetic diversity and population structure
of Coccidioides, the causal agent of coccidioidomycosis (Valley fever), has emerged. The …

Histoplasma capsulatum and Pneumocystis spp. co-infection in wild bats from Argentina, French Guyana, and Mexico

AE González-González, CM Aliouat-Denis… - BMC microbiology, 2014‏ - Springer
Abstract Background Histoplasma capsulatum and Pneumocystis organisms cause host
infections primarily affecting the lung tissue. H. capsulatum is endemic in the United States …

Molecular identification of Histoplasma capsulatum using rolling circle amplification

JL Furuie, J Sun, MMF do Nascimento, RR Gomes… - Mycoses, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Histoplasmosis is a systemic fungal disease that occurs worldwide, causing symptomatic
infection mostly in immunocompromised hosts. Etiological agent is the dimorphic fungus …

[HTML][HTML] A Phylogeographic Description of Histoplasma capsulatum in the United States

UR Bagal, L Gade, K Benedict, V Howell, N Christophe… - Journal of Fungi, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Histoplasmosis is one of the most under-diagnosed and under-reported endemic mycoses
in the United States. Histoplasma capsulatum is the causative agent of this disease. To date …

The scientific literature on bats (chiroptera) in Brazil: a scientometric analysis from 1954–2018

BFL Luciano, GA Elias, JJ Zocche… - Anais da Academia …, 2022‏ - SciELO Brasil
Globally, bats are of interest in many studies, beyond their ecological or epidemiological
relevance or even the ecomorphological diversity of species. In Brazil, most of the indexed …

Analyses of the genetic diversity and population structures of Histoplasma capsulatum clinical isolates from Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia and Argentina, using a …

JH Sahaza, E Duarte-Escalante, C Canteros… - Epidemiology & …, 2019‏ - cambridge.org
We studied the genetic diversity and the population structure of human isolates of
Histoplasma capsulatum, the causative agent of histoplasmosis, using a randomly amplified …