Sporotrichosis New Developments and Future Prospects /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Zeppone Carlos, Iracilda (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Immunology.; Medical microbiology.; Microbiology.; Mycology.; Life Sciences.; Medical Microbiology.

The book presents current affairs of Sporotrichosis as emergent disease with emphasis on the potential factors associated with genetic polymorphisms in Sporothrix complex. Constitutive and inducible factors play an essential role in the response of the fungal cell to the environment as determinant i...

Table of Contents:

• 1.Sporotrichosis an emergent disease
• 2.Sporothrix schenckii complex: Genetic polymorphyms
• 3.Inmunomodulators components of the Sporothrix schenckii complex
• 4.Environmental conditions and fungal immunopathogenicity: A dual effect
• 5.Clinical forms of Sporotrichosis and host immunocompetence
• 6.Sporotrichosis in animals: Zoonotic transmition
• 7.Models of experimental Sporotrichosis and immune response against Sporothrix schenckii
• 8.Immunodiagnostic: Current status and perspectives
• 9.Antifungal vaccines: Approaching anti-sporothrix immunoprophilaxis
• 10.Therapeutic tools: Old strategies and new tendencies.