Main 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. Index.