SUMMARY Rhizopus, Mucor, and Lichtheimia (formerly Absidia) species are the most
common members of the order Mucorales that cause mucormycosis, accounting for 70 to …

During recent decades, antifungal susceptibility testing has become standardized and
nowadays has the same role of the antibacterial susceptibility testing in microbiology …

Drug resistance of filamentous fungi to the commonly used antifungal agents is a major
concern in medicine. Therefore, an effective approach to treat several opportunistic fungal …

Antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) is indicated for pathogens contributing to an
infectious process that warrants antimicrobial therapy if susceptibility to antimicrobials …

Although not as ubiquitous as antibacterial susceptibility testing, antifungal susceptibility
testing (AFST) is a tool of increasing importance in clinical microbiology laboratories. The …

Eurycoma longifolia Jack is a well-known traditional plant of Malaysia. It is popularly
recognised as 'Tongkat Ali'. The present study deals with the preliminary phytochemical …

Medical treatment of mycetoma depends on its fungal or bacterial etiology. Clinically, these
entities share similar features that can confuse diagnosis, causing a lack of therapeutic …

Trichoderma species are well-known biological control agents. In this study, metabolites
from 128 Trichoderma isolates were extracted from liquid cultures using ethyl acetate and …

Antifungal susceptibility testing has become an important tool for physicians faced with
making difficult treatment decisions regarding treatment of patients with fungal infections …

The incidence of azole resistance in Aspergillus species has increased over the past years,
most importantly for Aspergillus fumigatus. This is partially attributable to the global spread …