Malassezia infections in humans and animals: pathophysiology, detection, and treatment

Aristea Velegraki; Claudia Cafarchia; Georgios Gaitanis; Roberta Iatta; Teun Boekhout

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1004523

Malassezia infections in humans and animals: pathophysiology, detection, and treatment

PLoS Pathog. 2015 Jan 8;11(1):e1004523. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004523. eCollection 2015 Jan.

Authors

Aristea Velegraki¹, Claudia Cafarchia², Georgios Gaitanis³, Roberta Iatta², Teun Boekhout⁴

Affiliations

¹ Mycology Research Laboratory, Microbiology Department, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
² Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy.
³ Department of Skin and Venereal Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.
⁴ CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands; State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Medical Mycology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Animals
Dermatitis / microbiology
Dermatitis / veterinary
Dermatomycoses / diagnosis*
Dermatomycoses / microbiology*
Dermatomycoses / therapy*
Dermatomycoses / veterinary
Disease Susceptibility
Genotyping Techniques
Humans
Malassezia / genetics
Malassezia / isolation & purification
Malassezia / pathogenicity*
Otitis / microbiology
Otitis / veterinary
Risk Factors
Skin / microbiology
Skin / pathology

Grants and funding

This publication was supported by NPRP grant 5-298-3-086 from the Qatar National Research Fund (a member of the Qatar Foundation) to TB. The statements herein are solely the responsibility of the authors. GG and AV have received Procter and Gamble and L'Oreal research grants for Malassezia studies. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.