Sarah Abdalla Ahmed, Wendy Kloezen, Ahmed H. Fahal, G. Sybren de Hoog, Wendy W. J. van de Sande Faculty of Medical Laboratory Sciences, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan; CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Erasmus MC, Department of Medical Microbiology and In...

Besides the remarkable progress which has been made in the laboratory diagnosis of mycoses, there is still a need for an affordable diagnostic procedure which would allow the rapid diagnosis of deep seated mycoses which may be life threatening in compromised patients and are often difficult to treat. A step forward to alleviate this situation was the introduction of the optical brighteners into...

Medical Mycology is first and foremost a laboratory technique manual. While each chapter begins with some explanatory text providing background on the pathogenic fungi, the bulk of the book is devoted to protocol. The text, edited by Kevin Kavanagh, covers diagnosis ofCandida infection by immunohistochemistry, techniques for identification of pathogenic fungi using transmission electron microsc...

F infect ions have been mentioned in ancient scriptures of Hinduism e.g. Atharva Veda and also in the writings of Hippocrates who described mouths affected with aphthous ulcerations which is now recognized as oral thrush. The earliest recognition of fungi as a cause of disease came from discovery of infection in silk worms by “budding globules of vegetable kingdom capable of reproducing themsel...

Anuradha Chowdhary, Shallu Kathuria, Kshitij Agarwal, Jacques F. Meis Departments of Medical Mycology and Pulmonary Medicine, Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, University of Delhi, Delhi, India; Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University, Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands; Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmege...