Searching the World Wide Web for information on medical mycology can be challenging. We provide the reader with an organized overview of the available resources on the Internet, including authoritative sites from academic institutions, professional societies, government agencies, and personal sites. This article reviews clinically relevant Internet resource directories, comprehensive sites of i...

In Fundamental Medical Mycology, Errol Reiss, Jean Shadomy, and Marshall Lyon have produced a valuable new text. Drs Reiss and Shadomy are medical mycologists who have extensive research and educational experience with the increasing spectrum of pathogenic fungi, including diagnosis of infections they cause and host defenses. Dr Lyon is an infectious diseases physician with clinical expertise i...

cance of this. Another feature of considerable clinical importance concerns the possible unfavorable effect which traumatic stress and certain inoculations may exert on the early stages of acute disease. All of these and other subjects received wide discussion. Readers of this volume will do well to read carefully the introductory address entitled, "Medical Research and Natural Philosophy" by t...

In this fine little book, Dr. Haley tells hospital technicians how to get pathogenic fungi out of specimens and how to identify them. She begins with a good general classification of fungi and gives general directions for collecting and treating materials from patients. Then she discusses each fungus and gives the key points for its recognition. Technicians should welcome this handy manual beca...