Browsing Research articles by Author "Mugisha, Peter"
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Disseminated Emergomycosis in a Person with HIV Infection, Uganda
Rooms, Isabelle; Mugisha, Peter; Gambichler, Thilo; Hadaschik, Eva; Esser, Stefan; Rath, Peter-Michael; Haase, Gerhard; Wilmes, Dunja; McCormick-Smith, Ilka; Rickerts, Volker (Emerging Infectious Diseases., 2019-09)We describe emergomycosis in a patient in Uganda with HIV infection. We tested a formalin-fixed, paraffin-embed¬ded skin biopsy to identify Emergomyces pasteurianus or a closely related pathogen by sequencing broad-range ... -
Identification of the causative dermatophyte of tinea capitis in children attending Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital in Uganda by PCR-ELISA and comparison with conventional mycological diagnostic methods
Wiegand, Cornelia; Mugisha, Peter; Mulyowa, Grace K.; Elsner, Peter; Hipler, Uta-Christina; Graser, Yvonne; Uhrla, Silke; Nenoff, Pietro (Medical mycology, 2017)Tinea capitis is a dermatophyte infection common among prepubertal children in sub- Saharan Africa and mainly caused by Trichophyton and Microsporum species. Accurate identification is challenging as conventional methods ...