[Onychocola canadensis: first isolates from onychomycoses in Slovakia].

Toenail onychomycoses are among the most common human superficial mycoses. The species spectrum of the causative agents, mainly nondermatophytes, is broad and varied. During 14 months (March 2007 to April 2008), Onychocola canadensis Sigler 1990, an uncommon nondermatophyte, was identified microscopically and by culture as the causative agent of nail infection in four patients.

Results from the ARTEMIS DISK Global Antifungal Surveillance Study, 1997 to 2007: 10.5-year analysis of susceptibilities of noncandidal yeast species to fluconazole and voriconazole determined by CLSI standardized disk diffusion testing.

Fluconazole in vitro susceptibility test results determined by the CLSI M44-A disk diffusion method for 11,240 isolates of noncandidal yeasts were collected from 134 study sites in 40 countries from June 1997 through December 2007. Data were collected for 8,717 yeast isolates tested with voriconazole from 2001 through 2007. A total of 22 different species/organism groups were isolated, of which Cryptococcus neoformans was the most common (31.

[Arthrographis kalrae--an uncommon causative agent of onychomycosis].

At a routine examination, multiple colonies of hyphomycetes of uncommon morphology were isolated from two patients with clinically suspected mycosis of the big toes (and confirmed microscopically by the presence of fragmented/thin hyphae). Based on the detailed study of the morphological and physiological characteristics of the cultures, the isolates were identified as Arthrographis kalrae. To our knowledge, this is the first isolation of the thermally dimorphic keratinolytic fungus to be reported in Slovakia.

The first clinical isolates of Candida dubliniensis in Slovakia.

Candida dubliniensis, yeast closely related to Candida albicans, is a new pathogen associated mainly with infections of immunocompromised hosts. In this study, we report the first isolation of three isolates of C. dubliniensis in Slovakia.

[Evidence of enterotoxins and toxic shock syndrome toxin (TSST-1) in strains of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from various biological materials].

Among 413 strains of S. aureus isolated from patients with chronic staphylococcal infections, from haemocultures in bacteriaemia and septic conditions, from gynaecological materials and nasal plugs of healthy carriers the authors detected the production of one or several types of enterotoxins in 124 strains (30.0%), production of TSST-1 in 19 strains (4.