This slide set was presented during the The American Society for Microbiology's 46^th Annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), 27-30 Sep, San Francisco.

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This lecture provides an overview of current challenges facing the field of mycology and tries to answer the questions of where the field should go over the next 10 years. Survey topics included problems with assessment of drug efficacy, approaches to prevention of fungal infection, the role of amphotericin B deoxycholate, challenges in susceptibility testing, the role of serodiagnostic tools, and the rapidly expanding field of mycotoxicology.

Attempt to identify amongst hospitalized patients those that should be protected early against invasive candidiasis.

Should all immunocompromised patients receive prophylaxis and/or empiric antifungal therapy or is it possible to limit it to particular patients at high risk on the basis of diagnostic procedures and risk assessment.

Invaziv aspergilloza iliskin tanı ve tedavi yaklasimları ve bu konudaki yenilik ve gelismeler gozden gecirilmistir.

A concise review of general features, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatment of coccidioidomycosis, histoplasmosis, blastomycosis, and paracoccidioidomycosis.

A concise overview on general features, subcellular structure, classification, and sexual and asexual spores of fungi.

Mantar enfeksiyonlarinin mikolojik tanisi icin klinik orneklerin alinmasi ve laboratuvara ulastirilmasina iliskin yontemler gozden gecirilmis, antifungal ilaclara in vitro duyarlilik sonuclarinin klinik onemine deginilmistir.

A comprehensive review of general features, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatment of candidiasis, cryptococcosis, aspergillosis, and zygomycosis.

An outline of general features, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatment of sporotrichosis, chromoblastomycosis, mycetoma, rhinosporidiosis, and lobomycosis.

An outline of general features, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatment of dermatophytosis, pityriasis versicolor, keratomycosis, tinea nigra, black piedra, and white piedra.

Esta conferencia resume los datos concernientes a: 1) la epidemiología de la infecciones por Candida en la Unidad de Terapia Intensiva (UTI); 2) las formas de presentación de las Candidiasis; 3) el manejo de la Candidemia asociada a catéter; 4) Conceptos básicos en relación a la Peritonitis y Neumonías por Candida.

A comprehensive review of the diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for invasive candidaisis.

The evolution and resolution of sporotrichosis of a finger.