DESCRIPTION:
Exploring breakthroughs in fungal detection and control, this book covers fungal nomenclature, population instability, and phylogeny, as well as investigative research on Peronosporomycetes, Zygomycetes, Filamentous Ascomycetes, Basidiomycetous Yeasts, Endomycetes and Blastomycetes, and Miscellaneous Opportunistic Fungi. It offers methods to identify zoopathogenic fungi, analyze reports of putative pathogens, develop methods for detection, isolation, and characterization of pathogenic fungi, evaluate emerging strain-typing techniques, target molecules for diagnostic tests, and examine the patterns and mechanisms of genetic variation.
CONTENTS:
An Introduction to the Taxonomy of Zoopathic Fungi
The Peronosporomycetes and Other Flagellate Fungi
Zygomycetes: The Order Mucorales
Zygomycetes: The Order Entomophthorales
Onygenales: Arthrodermataceae
Ascomycetes: The Onygenaceae and Other Fungi from the Order Onygenales
Aspergillus, Fusarium, Sporothrix, Piedraia, and Their Relatives
Yeasts: Blastomycetes and Endomycetes
Basidiomycetous Yeasts
Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes
Miscellaneous Opportunistic Fungi: Microascaceae and Other Ascomycetes, Hyphomycetes, Coelomycetes, and Basidiomycetes
Molecular Methods to Identify Pathogenic Fungi
Population Genetic Analyses of Medically Important Fungi
Genetic Instability of Candida albicans