Little information is presently available on the disease aetiology and epidemiology of the
fungi involved in the decline of young vines. To address this question, four rootstock-scion …

Esca disease of grapevine is gaining increasing importance in Central European wine-
growing countries. Several fungi, all of which are wood-inhabiting, were found to be …

Petri disease, or black goo, is a serious disease of vines in most areas where grapevines
are cultivated. The predominant associated fungus is Phaeomoniella chlamydospora …

The hierarchical classification of organisms into taxa begins with the species, and then
advances to the genus, family, order, class, phylum or division, and kingdom. Each of these …

We describe two cases in Brazil of human subcutaneous infections due to
Phaeoacremonium spp. The first case was caused by Phaeoacremonium aleophilum. The …

The dematiaceous fungal infections are caused by the so-called “black”(darkly pigmented)
or dematiaceous fungi (1, 2). The dematiaceous fungi are ubiquitous saprophytes in water …