Narrow your search

Library

AP (1)

KDG (1)

KU Leuven (1)


Resource type

digital (1)

dissertation (1)


Language

English (2)


Year
From To Submit

2018 (2)

Listing 1 - 2 of 2
Sort by

Digital
Emerging and Epizootic Fungal Infections in Animals
Authors: --- --- ---
ISBN: 9783319720937 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cham Springer International Publishing

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

The book will provide insights into epidemic and emerging mycoses in various animal groups. The different categories of pathogens and outbreak fungi are discussed. In an introductory chapter, the reader will be provided basic information on fungal infections that are non-transmissible, infections from a common environmental source known as sapronoses, and zoophilic fungal pathogens in various animal species and populations, worldwide. Chapter 2 details the vocabulary and terminology that is required in the scientific literature in order to maintain clarity of expression to the field of Mycology. Chapters 3 to 9 discuss epidemic mycoses with a reservoir in animals and occasional outbreaks, including dermatophytoses, coccidioidomycosis, histoplasmosis, paracoccidioidomycosis, adiaspiromycosis and similar diseases, blastomycosis, and paracoccidioidomycosis ceti (lacaziosis/lobomycosis). Chapters 10 to 15 comprise emerging mycoses in animals that include feline sporotrichosis, lethargic crab disease, emergence of C. gattii in animals and zoonotic potential, white-nose syndrome in hibernating bats, chytridiomycosis in frogs and salamanders and aspergillosis in cats. The last chapter is about treatment possibilities, antifungal use in veterinary practice, and emergence of resistance. The book will address medical and veterinary mycologists, microbiologists, veterinarians, infectious disease specialists, epidemiologists, ecologists, public health scientists from academia and industry as well as graduate students, PhD students and postdocs in the field.


Dissertation
The biology of black yeast genomes
Authors: --- --- --- ---
ISBN: 9789463324199 9463324194 Year: 2018 Publisher: Ede GVO drukkers & vormgevers BV

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

In this PhD thesis, the whole genomes of black yeast-like fungi belonging to the order Chaetothyriales (division Ascomycetes) and filamentous relatives are sequenced and examined in order to understand the mechanisms behind their adaptation to diverse ecological niches. Chaetothyriales are able to inhabit a wide range of habitats varying from oligotrophic environments, which provide very low levels of nutrients, to sites containing complex carbon substrates. Although human infections caused by black yeasts and their filamentous relatives are considered to be rare, recalcitrant infections in patients with immunodeficiency disorders but also otherwise healthy people have consistently been reported. Their outstanding metabolic plasticity, and concomitant broad ability to degrade a variety of substrates, has generally been taken to be the reason for the diversity of places occupied by this group of fungi. Results described in this thesis provide deeper understanding of the genetic basis and potential adaptations that led the Chaetothyriales to master sites rarely colonized by other fungal species.

Keywords

Listing 1 - 2 of 2
Sort by