This note covers the following topics: Overview of Mycology, Classifications of Fungi, Laboratory Methods in Medical
Mycology, Techniques for Identification of Fungi, Laboratory ID, Saprophytes,
Yeasts, Bacteria, Types of mycoses based on body site and Systemic mycoses.
This note explains the following topics: fungal diversity in
different ecosystems, Fermentation technology, Enzyme technology, Fungal toxins,
Fungi as food and beverage and food processing, Fungal metabolites and future of
fungal biotechnology.
The main
purpose of the book, as its title implies, is to serve as a primer. The contents
are divided into two parts. The first deals with the clinical, theoretical and
experimental aspects of the subject, the second outlines the laboratory
procedures useful in examining a patient suspected of having one of the various
mycoses.