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OBSERVING FUNGAL DISEASE AWARENESS WEEK 2019. 1 month ago · Last year, during fungal disease awareness week , organised by the Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta, U.S.A, we opined that Nigeria deserves a day or week to raise awareness about fungal diseases. As […]
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Iriagbonse Osaigbovo wrote a new post in Medical Mycology Society of Nigeria,
HISTOPLASMOSIS IN THE AMERICAS: THE ROUTE TO AWARENESS 3 months, 2 weeks ago · Histoplasmosis is a systemic mycoses that is often misdiagnosed and mistaken for tuberculosis. In a recent commentary in the Journal of fungi, Nacher et al have described how specialists in 4 countries became […]
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Iriagbonse Osaigbovo wrote a new post in Medical Mycology Society of Nigeria,
E-LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR MEDICAL MYCOLOGY EDUCATION 4 months, 3 weeks ago · It is a well known that invasive fungal infections often remain undiagnosed because both doctors and laboratory workers have poor knowledge of these diseases.
This often leads to very low index of suspicion […]
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Iriagbonse Osaigbovo wrote a new post in Medical Mycology Society of Nigeria,
Is coccidioidomycosis endemic in Africa? An unusual finding from Nigeria. 5 months ago · Coccidioidomycosis, also known as valley fever, is one of the classical endemic mycosis. It is an infection caused by Coccidioides. This fungus is known to live in soil in the southwestern United states and p […]
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Iriagbonse Osaigbovo wrote a new post in Medical Mycology Society of Nigeria,
Is coccidioidomycosis endemic in Africa? An unusual finding from Nigeria. 5 months ago · Coccidioidomycosis, also known as valley fever, is one of the classical endemic mycosis. It is an infection caused by Coccidioides. This fungus is known to live in soil in the southwestern United states and parts […]
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Iriagbonse Osaigbovo commented on the post, FIRST ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE MEDICAL MYCOLOGY SOCIETY OF NIGERIA 5 months ago ·
Thank you, Hassan Yahaya. If you attended the conference, the abstracts are included in the brochure. A PDF version is not available now but we will look into it.
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Iriagbonse Osaigbovo wrote a new post in Medical Mycology Society of Nigeria,
BLAZING A TRAIL AT THE 14TH ANNUAL FUNGAL UPDATE IN LONDON 7 months ago · This year’s Fungal Update Meeting is ongoing (15th and 16th, March, 2019) at the QE2 conference centre, London, UK.
The meeting, now in its 14th year, is the largest mycosis focused specialist meeting in the […]
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Iriagbonse Osaigbovo commented on the post, MARKURDI HOSTS MMSN CRYPTOCOCCAL SCREENING TRAINING PROGRAMME. 8 months ago ·
That is great to know, Dr. Okolo! Keep it going. I believe the effort is paying off.
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Iriagbonse Osaigbovo uploaded the file: Role of Medical Mycology Societies in combating IFIs in LMIC to
Medical Mycology Society of Nigeria 8 months, 1 week ago · Official history of the Medical Mycology Society of Nigeria, Aims and Objectives.
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Iriagbonse Osaigbovo wrote a new post in Medical Mycology Society of Nigeria,
FIRST ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE MEDICAL MYCOLOGY SOCIETY OF NIGERIA 8 months, 1 week ago · 
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A timely event, we shall be there god willing.
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Good afternoon,
I must congratulate you for the successful conduct of the mycology conference.
We will be appreciated, if you will upload the PDF version of the Book of Abstract for our record.
Thank you
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Thank you, Hassan Yahaya. If you attended the conference, the abstracts are included in the brochure. A PDF version is not available now but we will look into it.
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Iriagbonse Osaigbovo wrote a new post in Medical Mycology Society of Nigeria,
COUNTRYWIDE CRYPTOCOCCAL SCREENING AND MANAGEMENT TRAINING FOR HEALTHCARE WORKERS- NOVEMBER UPDATE 10 months, 3 weeks ago · November was an eventful month for the MMSN Cryptococcal screening and management training team as they delivered the training in three tertiary centres in Nigeria. The team, made up of president, Dr Rita Oladele […]
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Iriagbonse Osaigbovo wrote a new post in Medical Mycology Society of Nigeria,
FUNGUS AWARENESS WEEK. 1 year ago · Fungal Disease Awareness Week was October 1–5, 2018 in the United States of America. CDC and partners organized this week to highlight the importance of recognizing serious fungal diseases early enough in the c […]
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Iriagbonse Osaigbovo wrote a new post in Medical Mycology Society of Nigeria,
ADVOCACY IN SPREADING THE FUNGAL INFECTION MESSAGE 1 year ago · Fungal infections are notorious for piggybacking on other diseases. For this reason, they affect diverse patient groups spread over different domains.
Anyone bent on reducing the scourge of invasive fungal […]
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Iriagbonse Osaigbovo wrote a new post in Medical Mycology Society of Nigeria,
CRYPTOCOCCAL SCREENING TRAIN LANDS IN ABUJA 1 year ago · MMSN is passionate about raising awareness and ensuring that physicians countrywide have a low threshold for thinking fungal disease, especially in immunocompromised patients. Cryptococcal meningitis is one of […]
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Iriagbonse Osaigbovo wrote a new post in Medical Mycology Society of Nigeria,
MARKURDI HOSTS MMSN CRYPTOCOCCAL SCREENING TRAINING PROGRAMME. 1 year, 1 month ago · The nationwide training on cryptococcal meningitis screening has been delivered in Markurdi on August 30th, 2018. In July, the training was offered to healthcare personnel in Port Harcourt and Akure.
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The advocacy on fungal infection is on going in Jos, Plateau state Nigeria. Training screening and treatment of patients is also on-going. This is a follow-up on the training last year by Dr. Rita Oladele.
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That is great to know, Dr. Okolo! Keep it going. I believe the effort is paying off.
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Iriagbonse Osaigbovo wrote a new post in Medical Mycology Society of Nigeria,
CRYPTOCOCCAL SCREENING TRAINING PROGRAM GOES TO KANO 1 year, 3 months ago · The CDC- sponsored MMSN Cryptococcal screening training program for healthcare providers in Nigeria has been delivered this past week in Bayero University Teaching Hospital, Kano. This brings the number of centres […]
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Iriagbonse Osaigbovo posted an update in the group
Medical Mycology Society of Nigeria 1 year, 6 months ago · The Invasive Fungal Infection Forum organised by The Medical Mycology Society of Nigeria wraps up today 7th April, 2018. It has been amazing and enlightening. My favourite discourses were on Histoplasmosis, Candida auris and Emergomyces. Looking forward to future events!
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Iriagbonse Osaigbovo started the topic THE THIRD INVASIVE FUNGAL INFECTIONS FORUM. (5TH- 7TH APRIL, 2018) in the forum
Medical Mycology Nigeria 1 year, 6 months ago · The 3rd Invasive Fungal Infection Forum was organised by the Medical Mycology Society of Nigeria. At least fifty health care workers consisting of doctors, pharmacists and laboratory scientists converged in Lagos to learn more about invasive fungal infections.
This year’s sessions have proven to be more robust than previous years with faculty from…[Read more] - Load More
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