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...

This list of medically important fungi is neither complete nor exhaustive. Because of the nature of taxonomy and classification approaches, the treatment of the various names included in this list will not necessarily reflect the opinion of each authority on mycology. The names selected for inclusion in this list represent fungi that are important to clinicians and microbiologists in clinical m...

David M. Engelthaler,a Wieland Meyerb Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona, USAa; Molecular Mycology Research Laboratory, Center for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Marie Bashir Institute for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, Westmead Clinical School, Sydney Medical School, Westmead Hospital, The University of Sydney, Westmead Institute for Medical Res...

Enhancedgene replacements inKu80disruptionmutantsofthe dermatophyte,Trichophytonmentagrophytes Tsuyoshi Yamada, Koichi Makimura, Tatsuya Hisajima, Yumiko Ishihara, Yoshiko Umeda & Shigeru Abe Teikyo University Institute of Medical Mycology, Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan; Genome Research Center, Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan; and Department of Alternative Medicine, Faculty of Health Care, Te...

1 Bu Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran 2 Research and Training Center of Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran, Iran 3 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran 4 Mycology Research Center, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran 5 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Amol University of Special Modern Technologie...