New Insights in Medical Mycology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kavanagh, Kevin (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Medical microbiology.; Molecular biology.; Parasitology.; Medicinal chemistry.; Infectious diseases.; Biomedicine.; Medical Microbiology.; Molecular Medicine.; Medicinal Chemistry.; Infectious Diseases.

Although the means of diagnosing and treating fungal infections have improved greatly over the last decade fungi still represent a serious threat to the health of immunocompromised and immunodeficient patients. The aim of this book is to give an in-depth assessment of our current understanding of th...

Table of Contents:

• Immunity to fungi
• In vitro models to analyse fungal infection
• Insects as Models for Studying the Virulence of Fungal Pathogens of Humans
• Novel Antifungal Therapies
• Candida Albicans: New Insights in Infection, Disease, and Treatment
• Pathogenesis of Cryptococcus neoformans
• The Zygomycetes
• The virulence of Aspergillus fumigatus
• The Biology of the Thermally Dimorphic Fungal Pathogen Penicillium marneffei
• Immune Responses to Dermatophytoses
• Insights in Paracoccidioides brasiliensis Pathogenicity
• Fusarium and Scedosporium: Emerging Fungal Pathogens.