Isolation of human fungi from soil and identification of two endemic areas of Cryptococcus neoformans and Coccidioides immitis
The present study was carried out in two different areas of Province of Cordoba, Argentina, where there was a suspicious of endemic mycosis. The previous data were the presence of a clinical case of pulmonary cryptococcosis in one area (Alta Gracia) and the previous findings of a high incidence of c...
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doaj-70ca24abe2494923a05778a61ed364d62020-11-25T00:13:56ZengUniversidade de São PauloRevista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo1678-99461989-02-013111610.1590/S0036-46651989000100001S0036-46651989000100001Isolation of human fungi from soil and identification of two endemic areas of Cryptococcus neoformans and Coccidioides immitisHéctor Rubinstein0Blanca Marticorena1Diana Masih2Noemi BorlettoRaul Vega3Haydee Varengo4Ricardo Negroni5Universidad Nacional de CórdobaUniversidad Nacional de CórdobaUniversidad Nacional de CórdobaUniversidad Nacional de CórdobaUniversidad Nacional de CórdobaUniversidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos AiresThe present study was carried out in two different areas of Province of Cordoba, Argentina, where there was a suspicious of endemic mycosis. The previous data were the presence of a clinical case of pulmonary cryptococcosis in one area (Alta Gracia) and the previous findings of a high incidence of coccidioidin and cryptococcin reactors in the population of the second one (Villa Dolores). In both areas soil samples for fungi were studied and Cryptococcus neoformans was found in 2/25 samples from Alta Gracia. In Villa Dolores Coccidioides immitis was isolated in 2/40 samples, and C. neoformans in 1/40 samples. Delayed hypersensitivity test with cryptococcin was determined in the population from Alta Gracia and it was found to be 5.3%. Positive cutaneous tests with coccidioidin (33.8%) and cryptococcin (31.9%) in Villa Dolores were obtained. With these findings two endemic areas of systemic mycoses in Cordoba, Argentina were delimited.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46651989000100001&lng=en&tlng=enEndemic areasHuman pathogenic fungiEpidemiology |
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Héctor Rubinstein Blanca Marticorena Diana Masih Noemi Borletto Raul Vega Haydee Varengo Ricardo Negroni Isolation of human fungi from soil and identification of two endemic areas of Cryptococcus neoformans and Coccidioides immitis Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo Endemic areas Human pathogenic fungi Epidemiology |
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Héctor Rubinstein Blanca Marticorena Diana Masih Noemi Borletto Raul Vega Haydee Varengo Ricardo Negroni |
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Héctor Rubinstein |
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Isolation of human fungi from soil and identification of two endemic areas of Cryptococcus neoformans and Coccidioides immitis |
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Isolation of human fungi from soil and identification of two endemic areas of Cryptococcus neoformans and Coccidioides immitis |
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Isolation of human fungi from soil and identification of two endemic areas of Cryptococcus neoformans and Coccidioides immitis |
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Isolation of human fungi from soil and identification of two endemic areas of Cryptococcus neoformans and Coccidioides immitis |
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Isolation of human fungi from soil and identification of two endemic areas of Cryptococcus neoformans and Coccidioides immitis |
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isolation of human fungi from soil and identification of two endemic areas of cryptococcus neoformans and coccidioides immitis |
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Universidade de São Paulo |
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Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo |
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1678-9946 |
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1989-02-01 |
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The present study was carried out in two different areas of Province of Cordoba, Argentina, where there was a suspicious of endemic mycosis. The previous data were the presence of a clinical case of pulmonary cryptococcosis in one area (Alta Gracia) and the previous findings of a high incidence of coccidioidin and cryptococcin reactors in the population of the second one (Villa Dolores). In both areas soil samples for fungi were studied and Cryptococcus neoformans was found in 2/25 samples from Alta Gracia. In Villa Dolores Coccidioides immitis was isolated in 2/40 samples, and C. neoformans in 1/40 samples. Delayed hypersensitivity test with cryptococcin was determined in the population from Alta Gracia and it was found to be 5.3%. Positive cutaneous tests with coccidioidin (33.8%) and cryptococcin (31.9%) in Villa Dolores were obtained. With these findings two endemic areas of systemic mycoses in Cordoba, Argentina were delimited. |
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Endemic areas Human pathogenic fungi Epidemiology |
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