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these represent two distinct species of Coccidioides (immitisand posadasii), both of which cause the same disease. Perhaps the m ...

for Paracoccidioides brasiliensis(see below) and strains of Histoplasma capsulatum– in all three cases the reduced content of α- ...

increasing incidence of HIV/AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s led to a major surge in cryptococcosis, affect- ing 7–10% of AIDS patien ...

var. gattiiseems to be eucalypt trees and hollows in decaying wood. The pathogenicity and virulence determinants of C. neoforman ...

of AIDS in the 1980s Pneumocystis was only found infrequently as a cause of pneumonitis, called Pneu- mocystis carinii pneumonia ...

acquired during continuous or periodic exposure to the pathogen. The reactivation of long-term latent infec- tion cannot be rule ...

Chapter 17 Principles and practice of controlling fungal growth In this chapter we deal with the major practical methods of cont ...

graminis(see Fig. 9.11), which usually declines to non- damaging levels within 1 year if a different (noncereal) crop is sown. A ...

peninsula and to have been disseminated by traders in the nineteenth century. The development of tech- nologies for raising ster ...

beyond a treated area in a commercial glasshouse. The area of diseased plants in each box was then assessed. Treatment of the so ...

human-pathogenic fungi. For example, the azole fungicides(imidazoles and triazoles) were first devel- oped to control plant dise ...

There is an urgent need to find new chemicals (with novel modes of action) and new cellular targets, to pro- vide a greater rang ...

Organic contact (protectant) fungicides Organic fungicides were developed in the 1930s and quickly replaced the inorganic fungic ...

cereal rust fungus, a powdery mildew fungus, a downy mildew pathogen (e.g. Phytophthora infestans), and a rice pathogen (Magnapo ...

against powdery mildew fungi by inhibiting an enzyme (adenosine deaminase) involved in purine metabolism. In this case, fungicid ...

develops from a small nonmelanized region of the wall in contact with the host surface. If the fungus can- not synthesize melani ...

commercially for plant disease control were developed in Japan, mainly for the control of rice diseases (rice blast caused by Ma ...

blasticidin-S, and reduced binding of kasugamycin to the ribosome. Validamycin Ais used to control several diseases caused byRhi ...

natural biocontrol in field conditions, a classic ex- ample being the role of fluorescent pseudomonads (P. fluorescens and P. pu ...

Terbinafine Like griseofulvin, terbinafine (Fig. 17.11) can be taken orally (or topically) and it tends to accumulate in the ski ...