Biodiversity, pathogenicity and antifungal susceptibility of Cladophialophora and relatives

Thesis

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Contents

Chapter 1: General introduction: black yeasts: their systematics and phylogeny

Chapter 2: Biodiversity of the genus Cladophialophora

Chapter 3: Cladophialophora saturnica sp. nov., a new opportunistic species of Chaetothyriales revealed using molecular data

Chapter 4: Cladophialophora psammophila, a novel species of Chaetothyriales with a potential use in the bioremediation of volatile aromatic hydrocarbons

Chapter 5: Use of amplified fragment length polymorphism to identify 42 Cladophialophora strains, related to cerebral phaeohyphomycosis with in vitro antifungal susceptibility

Chapter 6: The clinical spectrum of Exophiala jeanselmei, with a case report and in vitro antifungal susceptibility of the species

Chapter 7: Rhinocladiella aquaspersa, proven agent of verrucous skin infection and a novel type of chromoblastomycosis

Chapter 8: First autochthonous case of Rhinocladiella mackenziei cerebral abscess outside the Middle East

Chapter 9: In vitro activities of antifungal drugs against Rhinocladiella mackenziei, an agent of fatal brain infection

Chapter 10: Discussion; Conclusion & summary; Conclusies en samenvatting (Conclusion & summary in Dutch); Acknowledgements; About the author; List of publications; List of abstracts

Scholarships, awards and honors; Professional memberships

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