First Demonstration of Clinical Fusarium Strains Causing Cross-Kingdom Infections from Humans to Plants
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Sample Collection
2.2. Detached in-vitro Tissue Assay
2.2.1. Surface Disinfection of Seeds
2.2.2. Conidia Suspensions and Inoculation of Tissue by Fusarium
2.3. In vitro Seedling Assay
2.3.1. Surface Disinfection of Seeds
2.3.2. Inoculation of Maize and Arabidopsis Seeds by Fusarium
2.4. Human Onychomycosis Assay
2.5. Fusarium Detection by Confocal Microscopy
3. Results
4. Discussion
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Date | Lab ID | Symptomatology | Gender/Age | Patient Location | Occupation | Species |
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10/01/2013 | 21564 | Ocular trauma | F/75 | Tuzamapan, Puebla | Housewife | Fusariumsolani |
19/02/2013 | 21791 | DM 10 years, cornea trauma | M/73 | Zacatecas | Farmer | Fusariumdimerum |
20/02/2013 | 21797 | Ocular trauma | M/28 | Puebla | Farmer | Fusariumsolani |
06/03/2013 | 21890 | Ocular trauma | F/32 | Quintana Roo | Housewife | Fusariumsolani |
08/04/2013 | 22083 | Ocular trauma | M/76 | Mexico city | Worker | Fusariumsolani |
18/06/2013 | 22503 | Ocular trauma | M/7 | Veracruz, Ver | Student | Fusariumsolani |
19/08/2013 | 22869 | Insidious, pain+++, immune ring | F/41 | La trinitaria Chiapas | Housewife | Fusariumdimerum |
23/12/2013 | 23544 | Insidious, pain++ | M/47 | AltamiraTamaulipas | Worker | Fusariumsolani |
17/02/2014 | 23813 | Ocular trauma | M/41 | Mexico city | Builder | Fusariumsolani |
20/08/2014 | 24810 | Ocular trauma | M/49 | Durango Durango | Farmer | Fusariumsolani |
30/01/2015 | 25704 | Insidious, pain | F/34 | Acapulco Guerrero | Housewife | Fusariumsolani |
27/04/2015 | 26256 | Ocular trauma | F/30 | Mexico City | Housewife | Fusariumdimerum |
18/08/2016 | 28615 | Ocular trauma | M/62 | Puebla | Farmer | Fusariumoxysporum |
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Meza-Menchaca, T.; Singh, R.K.; Quiroz-Chávez, J.; García-Pérez, L.M.; Rodríguez-Mora, N.; Soto-Luna, M.; Gastélum-Contreras, G.; Vanzzini-Zago, V.; Sharma, L.; Quiroz-Figueroa, F.R. First Demonstration of Clinical Fusarium Strains Causing Cross-Kingdom Infections from Humans to Plants. Microorganisms 2020, 8, 947. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8060947
Meza-Menchaca T, Singh RK, Quiroz-Chávez J, García-Pérez LM, Rodríguez-Mora N, Soto-Luna M, Gastélum-Contreras G, Vanzzini-Zago V, Sharma L, Quiroz-Figueroa FR. First Demonstration of Clinical Fusarium Strains Causing Cross-Kingdom Infections from Humans to Plants. Microorganisms. 2020; 8(6):947. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8060947
Chicago/Turabian StyleMeza-Menchaca, Thuluz, Rupesh Kumar Singh, Jesús Quiroz-Chávez, Luz María García-Pérez, Norma Rodríguez-Mora, Manuel Soto-Luna, Guadalupe Gastélum-Contreras, Virginia Vanzzini-Zago, Lav Sharma, and Francisco Roberto Quiroz-Figueroa. 2020. "First Demonstration of Clinical Fusarium Strains Causing Cross-Kingdom Infections from Humans to Plants" Microorganisms 8, no. 6: 947. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8060947
APA StyleMeza-Menchaca, T., Singh, R. K., Quiroz-Chávez, J., García-Pérez, L. M., Rodríguez-Mora, N., Soto-Luna, M., Gastélum-Contreras, G., Vanzzini-Zago, V., Sharma, L., & Quiroz-Figueroa, F. R. (2020). First Demonstration of Clinical Fusarium Strains Causing Cross-Kingdom Infections from Humans to Plants. Microorganisms, 8(6), 947. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8060947