Current knowledge of Trichosporon spp. and Trichosporonosis

AL Colombo, ACB Padovan… - Clinical microbiology …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
Trichosporon spp. are basidiomycetous yeast-like fungi found widely in nature. Clinical
isolates are generally related to superficial infections. However, this fungus has been …

Regulatory circuitry governing fungal development, drug resistance, and disease

RS Shapiro, N Robbins, LE Cowen - Microbiology and molecular …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
Pathogenic fungi have become a leading cause of human mortality due to the increasing
frequency of fungal infections in immunocompromised populations and the limited …

Hsp90 governs dispersion and drug resistance of fungal biofilms

N Robbins, P Uppuluri, J Nett, R Rajendran… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Fungal biofilms are a major cause of human mortality and are recalcitrant to most treatments
due to intrinsic drug resistance. These complex communities of multiple cell types form on …

Oral candidosis–clinical challenges of a biofilm disease

R Rautemaa, G Ramage - Critical reviews in microbiology, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
This review summarizes the impact of biofilms in oral candidosis with special emphasis on
medically compromised patients. The concept of oral candidosis as a mixed candidal …

Oral biofilm-associated diseases: trends and implications for quality of life, systemic health and expenditures.

T Beikler, TF Flemmig - Periodontology 2000, 2011 - search.ebscohost.com
The article focuses on oral biofilm-associated disease. It states the trends of periodontal
diseases and dental caries. It relates the impacts of oral biofilm-associated diseases …

Contribution of the glycolytic flux and hypoxia adaptation to efficient biofilm formation by Candida albicans

J Bonhomme, M Chauvel, S Goyard… - Molecular …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The fungal pathogen Candida albicans forms therapeutically challenging biofilms on
biomedical implants. Using a transcript profiling approach genes whose expression is …

Biofilm formation and genotyping of Candida haemulonii, Candida pseudohaemulonii, and a proposed new species (Candida auris) isolates from Korea

BJ Oh, JH Shin, MN Kim, H Sung, K Lee… - Medical …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Emergence of Candida haemulonii and closely related species at five Korean hospitals has
been recently described. We examined biofilm formation by these isolates and assessed …

Aspergillus biofilms: clinical and industrial significance

G Ramage, R Rajendran… - FEMS microbiology …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The biofilm phenotype is an increasingly important concept in mycological research.
Recently, there has been a developing interest in whether Aspergillus species are truly able …

Aspergillus fumigatus biofilms in the clinical setting

FMC Müller, M Seidler, A Beauvais - Medical mycology, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
We discuss in this work the role of Aspergillus biofilms in the clinical setting by reviewing the
most recent findings on this topic. Aspergillus fumigatus can produce in vitro an extracellular …

Superoxide dismutases are involved in Candida albicans biofilm persistence against miconazole

A Bink, D Vandenbosch, T Coenye… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
We investigated the cellular mechanisms responsible for the occurrence of miconazole-
tolerant persisters in Candida albicans biofilms. Miconazole induced about 30% killing of …