Tropical eumycetoma is frequently caused by the fungus Madurella mycetomatis. The disease
is characterised by extensive subcutaneous masses, usually with sinuses draining pus, …

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Mycetoma can be caused by bacteria (actinomycetoma) or fungi (eumycetoma) and
typically affects poor communities in remote areas. It is an infection of subcutaneous tissues …

Azole resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus is increasingly reported. Here, we describe the
validation of the AsperGenius, a new multiplex real-time PCR assay consisting of two multiplex …

Melanin biopigments have been linked to fungal virulence. Aspergillus fumigatus conidia are
melanised and are weakly immunogenic. We show that melanin pigments on the surface of …

… Author links open overlay panel Marcel Bruins a b , Zeaur Rahim c , Albert Bos a , Wendy
WJ van de Sande b , Hubert Ph. Endtz b c , Alex van Belkum b d …

The in vitro susceptibilities of 66 molecularly identified strains of the Mucorales to eight
antifungals (amphotericin B, terbinafine, itraconazole, posaconazole, voriconazole, caspofungin, …

… Van de Sande et al.42 were able to detect polymorphisms in catechol-O-methyltransferase
and cytochrome p450 subfamily 19 genes predisposing towards Madurella mycetomatis-…

… Sande WWJ van de. 2012. Phylogenetic analysis of the complete mitochondrial genome
of Madurella mycetomatis confirms its taxonomic position within the order Sordariales. …

… In order to get a rough estimation on the global burden of mycetoma, van de Sande performed
a meta-analysis in which 8,763 cases were reviewed [3]. These cases were from various …