The Mycological Diagnostic Service: A Five-Year Survey (1959-1963)

Report on the Mycological Diagnostic Service, Queen's University, Belfast, 1962

IN the fourth year since its inception in 1959 the Mycological Laboratory of the Department of Microbiology, Queen's University of Belfast, continued to provide a diagnostic service for the isolation and/or identification of fungi associated with human sources. During 1962 inycological examinations were made on 1,322 specimens fromn 1,000 patients from thirty hospitals, clinics or laboratories,...

Report on the Mycological Diagnostic Service, Royal Victoria Hospital, 1959

Dermatophyte isolations in Northern Ireland 1967-1973.

THIS is the second retrospective survey of the work of the Mycological Diagnostic Service since its establishment in 1959. Its purpose is to review the isolation of dermatophytes (ringworm fungi) of both human (anthropophilic) and animal (zoophilic) origin in Northern Ireland over the period 1967 to 1973, and to compare the findings with previous reports for the province (Mackenzie and Rusk, 19...

Report of the Mycological Diagnostic Service

THIS is the third annual report from the Mycological Diagnostic Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Queen's University, and covers the work done during 1961. During the year, 1,428 specimens were examined for the presence of fungi, a slight increase (4 per cent.) over the 1960 figure. The majority of specimens (88 per cent.) again originated from hospital clinics and dermatological practice...

Brief history of mycology in Iran

The history of mycology in Iran is presented in five periods. In the first period (until 1860) there is no sign of Iranian fungi in scientific literature. In the second period (1860–1941) the study of Iranian fungi was started by foreign mycologists who did not visit Iran but worked on plant material collected by botanists. In the third period (1941–1963) the study of Iranian fungi was started ...