Current Topics in Medical Mycology

ISBN-13: 9781461281832 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 424 str.

Opis

Current Topics in Medical Mycology, is intended to summa rize current research areas in medical mycology for medical mycologists and other scientists who are working in micro biology and immunology. Topics to be included in each volume will serve as contemporary reviews, summaries of current advancements and future directions, and mecha nisms to enhance the interdisciplinary use of medically im portant fungi in understanding pathogenesis, epidemiology, mycotoxins, taxonomy, and other areas where basic, ap plied, and clinical sciences are used. Michael R. McGinnis Marcel Borgers v Contents v Series Preface Contributors ix 1 Animal Models for Dermatomycotic Infections JAN VAN CUTSEM 1 2 Vaccines for the Management of Dermatophyte and Superficial Yeast Infections ESTHER SEGAL 36 3 Tissue-Bound Immunity: A Mechanism of Can- dacidal Activity HISASHI TAKAHASHI, KENICHIRO CHIKAKANE, MAsARU OKUDA, MARIKO HATANO, MANABU HOSHINO, OSAMU KANEKO, and YOKO KAWA 50 4 Rhinosporidiosis MERANI THIANPRASIT and KLEOPHANT THAGERNGPOL 64 Pathogenesis of Candida Vulvovaginitis 5 JACK D. SOBEL 86 6 Control of Extension of the Hyphal Apex NEIL A. R. Gow 109 7 Epidemiology and Ecology of Pityriasis Versicolor JAN FAERGEMANN 153 8 Fungal Cell Wall Synthesis and Assembly JOSE RUIZ-HERRERA, RAFAEL SENTANDREU 168 vii viii Contents 9 Lipids and Lipoidal Mycotoxins of Fungi MICHAEL A. GEALT, ABBAS ABDOLLAHI, and JOSEPH L.

Spis treści

1 Animal Models for Dermatomycotic Infections.- 2 Vaccines for the Management of Dermatophyte and Superficial Yeast Infections.- 3 Tissue-Bound Immunity: A Mechanism of Candidacidal Activity.- 4 Rhinosporidiosis.- 5 Pathogenesis of Candida Vulvovaginitis.- 6 Control of Extension of the Hyphal Apex.- 7 Epidemiology and Ecology of Pityriasis Versicolor.- 8 Fungal Cell Wall Synthesis and Assembly.- 9 Lipids and Lipoidal Mycotoxins of Fungi.- 10 Cell Wall of Candida albicans: Its Functions and Its Impact on The Host.- 11 Regulation of Candida albicans Populations in the Gastrointestinal Tract: Mechanisms and Significance in GI and Systemic Candidiasis.- 12 Antifungal Drug Susceptibility Testing.