(a.) Growing suddenly, but not substantial or durable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Superficial fungous infections of the skin often are difficult therapeutic problems especially if the laboratory identification of the organism, necessary to guide selection of means of treatment, is not obtained.
(2) Authors emphasize the pathogenetic importance of fungous dimorphism and its consequence in the usefulness of antimycotic drugs.
(3) Several possibilities of fungous etiology for meningo-encephalitis are shortly exposed, with the literature data on the liquor characters.
(4) They all had a voluminous fungous tumoral mass, that extended from the gingiva to the buccal vestibule or palate.
(5) This has been demonstrated in the last ten years and is absolutely indicated for major heart failure, ongoing sepsis, fungous etiology, valve obstruction, new-onset heart block, and unstable prosthesis by fluoroscopy.
(6) The incidence of dermatophytes is stable since the last study of Juminer in Tunis (1964); Trichophyton violaceum is the most identified fungous; however, we attend the push of zoo-anthropophil dermatophytes, so that Microsporum canis.
(7) The toxicity of fungous cell walls was undiminished after exposure to strong alkali, a treatment which destroyed bacterial endotoxin.
(8) One had to be removed on suspicion of a fungous colonization which could not be verified after bacterial examination.
(9) Fungous burdens in the spleens of TNF-alpha-depleted mice were higher than they were in the infected control mice at days 2, 7, and 9 after infection, and the antibody-treated animals succumbed to the infection.
(10) The severe platelet deficit in both cases suggests that systemic histoplasmosis should be considered as a cause of thrombocytopenic purpura.To our knowledge, this is the first reported instance of direct transmission of Histoplasma capsulatum, and must be considered a hazard in homotransplantation.In vitro leukocyte cultures as a method for early diagnosis of certain disseminated fungous infections needs further investigation.
(11) The large number of fungous strains isolated from specimens coming from the respiratory tract is a possible source of diagnostic failures.
(12) A fungous culture was positive and confirmed the diagnosis of tinea circinata.
(13) The actual pathogenetic activity of a fungous strain may be established on a mycological approach by means of an accurate taxonomic definition: only few species have pathogenetic possibilities: f.i.
(14) A high incidence of fungous infection was found while there was a surprisingly low incidence of Trichomonal vaginitis.
(15) Lactic acid products were ineffective in fungous and Proteus dysbacteriosis.
(16) A study about 697 patients with fungous injuries of scalp and hairless skin shows that 50% of scalp lesions and 16% of hairless skin lesions are dermatophyties.
Fungus
Definition:
(n.) Any one of the Fungi, a large and very complex group of thallophytes of low organization, -- the molds, mildews, rusts, smuts, mushrooms, toadstools, puff balls, and the allies of each.
(n.) A spongy, morbid growth or granulation in animal bodies, as the proud flesh of wounds.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fate of the inhibited fungus is the subject of this report.
(2) Binding of fibronectin, an extracellular matrix (ECM) protein, to Candida albicans was measured, and adherence of the fungus to immobilized ECM proteins, fibronectin, laminin, types I and IV collagen, and subendothelial ECM was studied.
(3) Cycloheximide and chloramphenicol in combination have a greater effect on yeast cells of Histoplasma capsulatum than on the mycelial phase of this fungus.
(4) Two new isomeric delta-lactones 2 and 3 have been isolated from the marine fungus Helicascus kanaloanus (ATCC 18591).
(5) The manganese peroxidase (MnP), from the lignin-degrading fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium, an H2O2-dependent heme enzyme, oxidizes a variety of organic compounds but only in the presence of Mn(II).
(6) They induced modifications in particle distribution, a blebbing of particle-free areas and the appearance of lamellar figures on the plasma membrane of fungus cells.
(7) Polyribonucleotide segments, about 60 nucleotides long and consisting of about 95% adenylic acid residues, were isolated from whole cell ribonucleic acid of the deuteromyceteous fungus Trichoderma viride.
(8) There was no significant change in proportion among G (+), G (-) and fungus groups.
(9) The degree of binding differed according to the morphological form of the fungus.
(10) Ion-exchange chromatography showed that this fungus produced multiple molecular forms of LPO.
(11) Subsequent culture is desirable but not always possible.A simple scheme for identifying fungi and fungus-like organisms is presented based on general morphology, staining, and other special characteristics with notes on types of tissue reactions and common pitfalls.
(12) Nevertheless, the finding that MST and CFU studies were loosely correlated in a few strains of mice indicated that the proliferation of the fungus in the kidneys was not always the major cause of death.
(13) Torulopsis glabrata is a yeast-like fungus with increasing importance as an opportunistic human pathogen.
(14) The fungus was demonstrated in the lesions and was isolated from the diseased parts as well as from the air, floor and walls of the breeding cabin.
(15) Morphologic features of Malassezia(M.) furfur in the horny layer from clinical lesions of tinea versicolor were examined by scanning electron microscopy and compared with the appearance of fungus in the horny layer from normal skin and in culture.
(16) medicaginis and eliminated the inhibitory effect showed by this fungus on strain A2 of R. meliloti.
(17) The authors observed maximum simultaneous biosynthesis of antibiotic and pigment in the microphilic fungus with using 48-hour seed mycelium having the specific growth rate of 0.008-0.011 h-1 in an amount of 5-7 per cent (v).
(18) Once the fungus enters the hair cortex just above the hair bulb, it produces myriads of spores that remain trapped and hidden beneath the cuticle for the length of the intact hair.
(19) DNA isolated from the wild-type aflatoxin-producing (Afl+) fungus Aspergillus parasiticus NRRL 5862 was used to construct a cosmid genomic DNA library employing the homologous gene (pyrG) encoding orotidine monophosphate decarboxylase for selection of fungal transformants.
(20) The fungus was not recovered from the brains of normal mice.