Fungi in Human and Animal Health/R.K.S. Kushwaha. Jodhpur, Scientific
Pub., 2004, xii, 476 p., tables, figs., ISBN 81-7233-338-2.
Fungi in Human and Animal Health/R.K.S. Kushwaha. Jodhpur, Scientific
Pub., 2004, xii, 476 p., tables, figs., ISBN 81-7233-338-2.
Contents: Preface. Contributors. 1. Dermatophytoses, some subcutaneous fungal infections: chromoblastomycosis, mycetoma, entomophthoromycosis and dimorphic fungal skin infections/Punkae Mahaisavariya and Angkana Chaiprasert. 2. Keratinophilous fungi from Antarctic terrestrial habitats/Giuseppe Caretta and Eduardo Piontelli. 3. Onychomycosis: prevalance of clinical types of pathogens/Jaeck C. Szepietowski. 4. An use of the MPN method for enumeration of keratinolytic and keratinophilic fungi in soils from municipal landfills/Krzysztof Ulfig. Grazyna Plaza. Maciej Terakowski and Tadeusz Manko. 5. New and emerging phoma species as human and animal pathogens/M.K. Rai. 6. Biotechnological potential of keratinophilic fungi and their ability to produce secondary metabolites/S.K. Deshmukh and S.C. Agrawal. 7. Significance of keratinophilic fungi/P.C. Jain, Shama J.P. Khanam. S.C. Agrawal. 8. Microsporum canis infection in cats - approach to systemic therapeutic protocols/Roberto Papini. 9. Molecular aspects of dermatophyte-host interactions/Nilce M. Martinez-Rossi, Monica S. Ferreira-Nozawa, Marcia A.S. Graminha, Sergio, R. Nozawa, Ana Lucia Fachin, Eliane P. Cervelatti. Rolf A. Prade and Antonio Rossi. 10. Dermatophytes in Colombia - a review/Maria Ines Alvarez and Mauricio Barreto. 11. Human pathogenic fungi - a taxonomic review/R.K.S. Kushwaha and Neetu Tripathi. 12. Investigations on the hair digestion by Chrysosporium species/Maria Angeles Calvo, Rosa Maria Calvo and Montserrat Agul. 13. Recent advances in knowledge on Rhinosporidium seeberi and rhinosporidiosis/S.N. Arseculeratne and D.N. Atapattu. 14. Mycotoxins and mycotoxicoses/C.A. Oyeka. 15. Fumonisin B1 in animal and human health/Michael F. Dutton. 16. Hazards of Fusarium verticillioides - a mycotoxigenic fungus/Elisabete Yurie Sataque Ono and Elisa Yoko Hirooka. 17. Mycobiota associated with maize grains in Uganda with special reference to aflatoxigenic aspergilli and aflatoxins/M.A. Ismail, H.K. Taligoola and E.K. Ssebukyu. 18. Aflatoxin and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon contamination of food and its implications on human health/Upali Samarajeewa. 19. Bioactive products of fungi/Banani Sur and Gouri Rani Ghosh. 20. Mushroom development in higher basidiomycetes: implications for human and animal health/Ursula Kues, Markus Kunzler, Alan P.F. Bottoli, Piers J. Walser, Jose D. Granado, Yi Liu, Rinaldo C. Bertossa, Diana Ciardo, Pierre-Henri Clergeot, Sabine Loss, Gwenael Ruprich-Robert and Markus Aebi. 21. Direct microscopic examination of fungi - a technique for permanent slides/Mauricio Barreto and Maria Ines Alvarez. Index.
From the Preface: "This book has been a pleasure to edit contributions from leading authorities in their field of specialisation on diverse aspects of role of fungi with a hope that this approach will stimulate worldwide interdisciplinary studies of fungi in relation to human and animal health. The contributions included in this book deals with dermatophytes and their relatives and other disease causing fungi. Recent knowledge on Rhinosporidium seeberi is an additional chapter. Different aspects of mycotoxigenic fungi including Fumonisin Ba and bioactive products of fungi are discussed in relation to human health. Mushroom development in the light of human health is last but one chapter.
"The book, which is directed to all those concerned with human health should be useful to the microbiologists, medical mycologists, dermatologists, veterinarians, biochemists, biologists and to the young students and layman."