DEEP-SEATED FUNGAL DISEASES IN THE SOUTH-PACIFIC, ESPECIALLY IN NEW-CALEDONIA

Citation
D. Monchy et al., DEEP-SEATED FUNGAL DISEASES IN THE SOUTH-PACIFIC, ESPECIALLY IN NEW-CALEDONIA, Mycoses, 41(1-2), 1998, pp. 31-34
Citations number
28
Categorie Soggetti
Dermatology & Venereal Diseases",Mycology
Journal title
ISSN journal
09337407
Volume
41
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
31 - 34
Database
ISI
SICI code
0933-7407(1998)41:1-2<31:DFDITS>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
The main deep-seated fungal diseases and their encountered pathology i n New Caledonia and other islands of the South Pacific are reviewed (1 970-96). Cryptococcosis is encountered in all islands of the South Pac ific, Australia and Papua New Guinea, with a predominance of variety g attii, which is associated with some species of Eucalyptus. Histoplasm osis is not uncommon, and there was an epidemic in New Caledonia in 19 94 among people who had visited a bat-inhabited cave. Mycetomas, in pa rticular presenting as pale granules in tissues, are encountered in Ne w Caledonia, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Fiji and French Polynesia. Oth er fungal infections, such as zygomycosis, sporotrichosis (three cases ) and chromomycosis (six cases) are rarely observed in New Caledonia.