E-Books →Medical Mycology, 3rd Edition

Medical Mycology, has been thoroughly revised and updated to keep pace with rapidly increasing information in medical science. It broadens the reader's knowledge and provides current information regarding the emerging as well as established pathogens that are being encountered and new methods for the laboratory diagnosis of mycosis. A new chapter on antifungal susceptibility testing has been added in this edition. Fungal morphology, cultivation, identification, pathogenesis, pathology and laboratory diagnosis of mycosis have been described in detail. The book has been divided into seven sections: These are General Topics, Superficial Cutaneous Mycosis, Subcutaneous Mycoses, Systemic Mycoses, Opportunistic Mycoses, Miscellaneous Mycoses and Appendices. The text is presented in a simple and lucid manner for the readers to help them thoroughly imbibe the basics of the subject.