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A gift from the heavens

Guest contribution: Article series on the subject of state-of-the-art mycology in dermatology, 8th article by Prof Hans-Jürgen Tietz, Director of the Institute of Fungal Diseases in Berlin, Germany “The Times They Are a-Changin” is one of the best known songs from Bob Dylan, a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. As frequently acknowledged, the […]

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A well-travelled fungus

Guest contribution: Article series on the subject of state-of-the-art mycology in dermatology, 7th article by Prof Hans-Jürgen Tietz, Director of the Institute of Fungal Diseases in Berlin, Germany This pathogen’s discovery was a complete coincidence. In 1989, I had a teaching assignment at the medical faculty in Luanda, where I was supposed to teach medical

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New variants and mutations

Guest contribution: Article series on the subject of state-of-the-art mycology in dermatology, 6th article by Prof Hans-Jürgen Tietz, Director of the Institute of Fungal Diseases in Berlin, Germany One hot-button word is still going round: Mutations. However, we are not talking of viruses. Also fungi develop in an evolutionary process. These may not be as

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Fungi in lockdown

Guest contribution: Article series on the subject of state-of-the-art mycology in dermatology, 5th article by Prof Hans-Jürgen Tietz, Director of the Institute of Fungal Diseases in Berlin, Germany The word Corona is still on everyone’s lips. In the wake of the virus, however, other pathogens are also spreading. Some benefit from the pandemic, among them

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A feeling of Sherlock Holmes

Guest contribution: Article series on the subject of state-of-the-art mycology in dermatology, 3rd article by Prof Hans-Jürgen Tietz, Director of the Institute of Fungal Diseases in Berlin, Germany The marvellous city of Edinburgh inspired several novelists such as Joanne K. Rowling (“Harry Potter” and Robert Louis Stevenson (“The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr

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