Alvaro Rúa

University of Antioquia | UdeA · Escuela de Microbiología

Fusarium, a member of the Ascomycota fungi, encompasses several pathogenic species significant to plants and animals. Some phytopathogenic species have received special attention due to their negative economic impact on the agricultural industry around the world. Traditionally, identification and taxonomic analysis of Fusarium have relied on morpho...

Fusarium is an Ascomycota with several relevant pathogenic species of plants and animals. Some phytopathogenic species have received special attention due to their negative economic impact on the agricultural industry around the world. Traditionally, identification and taxonomic analysis of Fusarium have relied on morphological and phenotypic featu...

Introduction For over a century, Sporothrix schenckii was considered the sole species responsible for sporotrichosis. In 2007, scientific community confirmed the disease could be caused by various Sporothrix species. These species differed in their virulence factors and their antifungal sensitivity. Objective This study aims to characterize 42 Col...

Resumen Los hongos son organismos polifacéticos presentes en casi todos los ecosistemas de la tierra, donde establecen diversos tipos de simbiosis con otros seres vivos. A pesar de ser reconocidos por los humanos desde la antigüedad -y de la cantidad de trabajos que han profundizado sobre su biología y ecología-, aún falta mucho por conocer sobre e...

Introducción. El fluconazol es el antifúngico más utilizado para la prevención y el tratamiento de infecciones causadas por el género Cryptococcus, agente etiológico de la criptococosis. La resistencia al fluconazol en los aislamientos de Cryptoccocus neoformans puede hacer fracasar el tratamiento y generar recaídas de la infección. Objetivo. Evalu...

Poster session 1, September 21, 2022, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Introduction Aerobiological studies have found an increasing number of fungal taxa in the intrahospital environments, including Aspergillus species. There is a gap in knowledge on drug-susceptibility in spores circulating in intrahospital environments. In this work, we evaluated the CYP51A g...

Candida spp is an important etiologic agent in urinary tract infections, mainly in patients in broad-spectrum antifungal therapy, with urinary catheters. Candida. albicans is the most frequent specie; but other species have arised as emerging pathogens. In this study, isolates of Candida spp. of urine cultures from patients who consulted in Dinamic...

Aspergillus is a very diverse genus of fungi that are common in the environment and can affect human health. Here, we report the draft genome sequences of two Colombian isolates of Aspergillus tamarii , an emerging pathogenic species. One isolate was obtained from an infected patient and the other from the environment in a hospital.