Melanized fungi in human disease

SG Revankar, DA Sutton - Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
Melanized or dematiaceous fungi are associated with a wide variety of infectious
syndromes. Many are soil organisms and are generally distributed worldwide, though …

Mold infections of the central nervous system

M McCarthy, A Rosengart, AN Schuetz… - … England Journal of …, 2014 - Mass Medical Soc
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ESCMID and ECMM joint clinical guidelines for the diagnosis and management of systemic phaeohyphomycosis: diseases caused by black fungi

A Chowdhary, JF Meis, J Guarro… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The aetiological agents of many invasive fungal infections are saprobes and opportunistic
pathogens. Some of these fungi are darkly pigmented due to melanin production and …

Dematiaceous fungi

SG Revankar - Mycoses, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Dematiaceous fungi are responsible for a wide variety of infectious syndromes. They are
often found in soil and generally distributed worldwide. This suggests that most if not all …

Phaeohyphomycosis

JT Arcobello, SG Revankar - Seminars in Respiratory and …, 2020 - thieme-connect.com
Phaeohyphomycosis refers to infections due to a large group of heterogenous organisms
called “dematiaceous” or “melanized” fungi. These fungi are distinguished by the …

Cerebral phaeohyphomycosis—a cure at what lengths?

DM Li, GS de Hoog - The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2009 - thelancet.com
Cerebral phaeohyphomycosis is a fungal infection of the brain typically caused by
Cladophialophora bantiana, Exophiala dermatitidis, and Rhinocladiella mackenziei, all of …

Identification of fungal species in brain tissue from Alzheimer's disease by next-generation sequencing

R Alonso, D Pisa, B Aguado… - Journal of Alzheimer's …, 2017 - content.iospress.com
The possibility that patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (AD) have disseminated
fungal infection has been recently advanced by the demonstration of fungal proteins and …

Phaeohyphomycosis

SG Revankar - Infectious Disease Clinics, 2006 - id.theclinics.com
Phaeohyphomycosis is the general term used to describe infections caused by
dematiaceous, or darkly pigmented, fungi. These are uncommon causes of human disease …

Brain abscess due to Cladophialophora bantiana: a review of 124 cases

A Chakrabarti, H Kaur, SM Rudramurthy… - …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Brain abscess caused by Cladophialophora bantiana is a rare disease associated with high
mortality due to delay in diagnosis and absence of standardized therapy. We reviewed 124 …

An updated comprehensive systematic review of Cladophialophora bantiana and analysis of epidemiology, clinical characteristics, and outcome of cerebral cases

AS Kantarcioglu, J Guarro, S De Hoog… - Medical …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Cladophialophora bantiana is a phaeoid fungus that only rarely has been isolated from
sources other than the human brain. It has a particular tropism for the central nervous system …