[Antifungal drug resistance: mechanisms of resistance, freqeuncy, prevention and control of resistance].

Fungi are important causes of human infections, especially systemic mycoses. Pathogenic fungi have many complex mechanisms of resistance to antifungal drugs. In this article, information about the cellular, genetic and clinical factors contributing to antifungal-drug resistance, and their diagnostic and epidemiologic characteristics are reviewed.

[IgG serum antibody responses in suspected liver cystic echinococcosis patients].

Introduction: Cystic echinococcosis is a parasitic zoonosis caused by a tapeworm Echinococcus granulosus. Liver infection is the most common form of human echinococcosis. Diagnosis of liver echinococcosis could be made by different methods.

Diagnosis of Trichomonas vaginalis infection: The sensitivities and specificities of microscopy, culture and PCR assay.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare wet mount-, Giemsa stain-, acridine orange fluorescent stain-, cultivation- and polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based approaches to establish which method or combination of methods was most effective in the laboratory diagnosis of trichomoniasis.

Study Design: Out of 200 investigated patients with various gynecological complaints, Trichomonas vaginalis infection was detected in 27 (13.5%) by any of methods investigated.