White piedra is a superficial, chronic, asymptomatic mycoses caused by yeast fungi of the genus Trichosporon. It affects the hair, especially of the head, less frequently of the pubis, perineum, armpit, beard, mustach...
supported with grants from Fundacao de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo(2007/53860-6,2007/50536-3 2009/52030-5,2011/51298-4,2011/50870-6)and CAPES MSc student Grant to B.Trama.
The influence of xenobiotic compounds on environment and on living organisms has been reported as an imminent public health problem. Among them we can list the contamination by Alkanes present in petroleum, hydrocarbo...
Invasive trichosporonosis is an extremely rare mycosis, but Trichosporon fungemia (TF) in patients with hematologic malignancies has been increasingly recognized to be a fulminant and highly lethal infection. Although...