Forensic mycology: current perspectives

Basic Mycology

D. R. Hospenthal, M. G. Rinaldi (eds.), Diagnosis and Treatment of Fungal Infections, Infectious Disease, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-13090-3_2, © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 D. A. Sutton () Fungus Testing Laboratory, Pathology Department, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA e-mail: [email protected] Int...

Introductory Mycology

first chapter, the author considers the "purpose" served by the second pyridine nucleotide coenzyme, TPN, to which he adds the thought that TPN arose in evolution to protect reducing power from the DPN-specific terminal oxidase systems that developed. Thus, the phosphogluconate and Emden-Myerhof pathways are looked at in terms of the pyridine nucleotidecoenzyme which each reduces rather than as...

Current Concepts in Forensic Entomology

Pathological Mycology

This work is intended as a practical guide to the examination and cultivation of micro-organisms, especially of those that are supposed to be connected with disease. So far, the authors have fully and satisfactorily succeeded in their purpose. There is no work in the English language which, in so small a space, gives such accurate and trustworthy accounts of the best methods of working at this ...

Down Syndrome: Current Status, Challenges and Future Perspectives

Down syndrome (DS) is a birth defect with huge medical and social costs, caused by trisomy of whole or part of chromosome 21. It is the most prevalent genetic disease worldwide and the common genetic cause of intellectual disabilities appearing in about 1 in 400-1500 newborns. Although the syndrome had been described thousands of years before, it was named after John Langdon Down who described ...