Gastrointestinal involvement of unusual Mucormycete Syncephalastrum racemosum in a diabetic patient with adenocarcinoma: rare case presentation with review of literature.

Background: Mucormycosis is a serious and often fatal mycotic infection caused by members of class Mucormycetes in populations with immunologic or metabolic disorders. Though several clinical manifestations are associated with mucormycetes, gastrointestinal involvement is quite rare.

Case Description: We described a rare case of invasive fungal infection due to Syncephalastrum racemosum associated with gastric adenocarcinoma in a 48-year-old male patient with type II Diabetes mellitus.

Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Bile-Acid-Derived Dicationic Amphiphiles and Their Toxicity Assessment on Microbial and Mammalian Systems.

A thiol-yne click chemistry approach was adopted for the first time to prepare highly water-soluble bile acid derived dicationic amphiphiles. The synthesized amphiphiles dicationic cysteamine conjugated cholic acid (DCaC), dicationic cysteamine conjugated deoxycholic acid (DCaDC), and dicationic cysteamine conjugated lithocholic acid (DCaLC) exhibited hierarchically self-assembled microstructures at various concentrations in an aqueous medium. Interestingly at below critical micellar concentration (CMC) the amphiphiles showed distinct fractal patterns such as fractal grass, microdendrites and fern leaf like fractals for DCaC, DCaDC and DCaLC respectively.