To evaluate the presence of fungi in patients with chronic anterior blepharitis with periodic acid–Schiff (PAS) staining of the eyelashes in addition to the conventional methods of fungal cultures and ...

Blue-stain fungi constitute a distinctive group of wood-colonizing fungi which lack the ability to decompose wood lignocellulose, yet are capable of causing significant wood discoloration (Fig. 1).

For over 100 years, it was assumed that the penicillin-producing mold fungus, Penicillium chrysogenum, only reproduced asexually through spores. Biologists have now shown for the first time that the ...

In a paper published in National Science Review, a Chinese team of scientists highlights the discovery of well-preserved blue-stain fungal hyphae within a Jurassic fossil wood from northeastern China, ...

To assess the value of histopathologic investigations of vitreous biopsy specimens in the diagnosis of fungal endophthalmitis compared with that of conventional smear and fungal culture. In this ...