PPT-Fungal Infections in Pakistan;

Local C hallenges Dr Afia Zafar MBBS DCP FRCPath Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine The Aga Khan University Plan Introduction Burden of disease Challenges Diagnostics and capacity . DACTYLARIA GALLOPAVA: . SALIENT IMAGING CHARACTERISTICS. MP . Yannes. , MD, M Hwang, MD, G . Zuccoli. , MD. Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA. Denning . DW. 1. , Pegorie M. 2. , . Welfare . W. 2. ,3. 24th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases in Barcelona, . Spain, May 2014. 1. National . Aspergillosis. Centre, University Hospital of South Manchester and The University of Manchester, Manchester . Estimated burden of fungal infections in Kenya John A Guto 1 ,4 , Christine C Bii 2 , David W Denning 1 , 3 ,4 1 LIFE program at Fungal Infection Trust , Macclesfield, Cheshire, United Kingdom 2 M Dr. . Gitanjali. . Khulbe. I MDS (OMDR). What are Fungi?. Fungi are a large group of microorganisms . that constitute a kingdom within the domain . . Eukaryota. . . “Ubiquitous” microorganisms causing degradation of organic material, hence form key components in food and biotechnology industries.. university. college of pharmacy. Pharmaceutical chemistry. Antifungal drugs. Fungi . are traditionally important in plant pathology.. They . have gained much importance for causing serious . human diseases. II. Synthetic . Antifungal . Drugs. III. Other . Antifungal Drugs. 1. Antifungal antibiotics:. Amphotericin. . (. amphotericin. B. ). Is . a mixture of antifungal substances derived from cultures of . Page 1 of 2 3 /1 6 Fungal Infections of the Skin (Ringworm, A thlete ’ s f oot, Jock i tch) What are f ungal i nfections of the skin ? These are skin infections caused by a family of fungi. Page 1 of 6 | www.bad.org.uk/leaflets | Registered Charity No. 258474 FUNGAL INFECTIONS OF THE NAILS What are the aims of this leaflet? This leaflet has been written to help you understand more abo Benedict K, Thompson GR, Deresinski S, Chiller TM. Mycotic Infections Acquired outside Areas of Known Endemicity, United States. Emerg Infect Dis. 2015;21(11):1935-1941. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2111.141950. Introduction : . Some fungi live on the skin as part of the normal skin flora while. others come into contact with the skin through the environment. and animals. Superficial fungal infections attack the epidermis,. B 104. Level 1 . - Fungi are more closely related to animals than . . . . plants. Fungi are heterotrophic: . . they use complex organic compounds as sources of energy . . and carbon, not photosynthesis. They are also classified by the kind of fungus which causes the infection, which may be a filamentous fungus (mould) or a yeast, or may vary between these two forms depending on the environmental conditions (dimorphic fungi).. Alena. Skrahina. 1. , David W. Denning. 2. , . Henadz. Hurevich. 1. , Natalia Yatskevich. 1. 1. The Republican Research and Practical Centre for Pulmonology and TB, Minsk Belarus. 2. The University of Manchester and The National . Koichi Izumikawa. 1. , Masato . Tashiro. 1. , . Takahiro . Takazono. 1. , . Shintaro . Kurihara. 1. , . Tomomi . Saijo. 2. , . Kazuko . Yamamoto. 2. , . Yoshifumi . Imamura. 2. , . Taiga . Miyazaki. 1.