Maria da Luz Martins

TL;DR: In this paper, an extensive environmental survey was carried out during 2012-2015 to elucidate the distribution of Cryptococcus neoformans and C. gattii in the Mediterranean basin, and showed that both carob and olive trees represent an important niche for these yeasts.

TL;DR: The expert group at the "Microareias 2012" workshop recommends that beach sand should be screened for a variety of pathogens harmful to human health, and sand monitoring should be initiated alongside regular water monitoring, and sampling and analysis protocols should be standardized to allow proper comparisons among beach locations.

TL;DR: A multiplex PCR strategy allowing the identification of 8 clinically relevant yeasts of the Candida genus and allows discrimination of individual Candida species within polyfungal samples may provide a clinical diagnostic procedure with direct applicability.

TL;DR: In the future, microarrays and newer biosensing technologies, coupled to new bionanotechnological tools, will certainly improve diagnosis of PCM and other mycosis through very specific and sensitive pathogen biomolecular detection.