title: Hygienic mycology in Hungary.
abstract: In Hungary the medical mycological research concerning the systemic (so-called deep) mycoses started in the National Institute of Hygiene. The Mycology Department has been founded in 1955 in this Institute with nation-wide authority as a routine diagnostic laboratory for clinical specimens from systemic mycotic infections. Three years later its activity was broadened--on ground of the experiences--to cover the total field of hygiene, thus we had to establish the "mycologia hygienica" (hygienic mycology), however, this has not been accepted as an independent discipline. Here a short, selected overview is given of our experiences. In the following the trends of the activity is demonstrated along the subdivisions of hygiene (epidemiology, environmental-hygiene, professional and occupational-, nutritional and food hygiene). In respect of hygiene, however, the fungi play a Janus-faced (more exactly Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde) role, as they can behave not only harmful but also beneficial.
authors.affiliation: REAQUA Ltd., Budapest, Hungary.
authors.forename: E K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Novák
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zala
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004777:Environment; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary; D006920:Hygiene; D009172:Mycology; D009181:Mycoses / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D016272:Occupational Health