The genus Malassezia is part of the indigenous mycoflora of the mucosa and skin of healthy cats and dogs, Otherwise, it is able to survive in the environment only for short periods In addition, their importance as emergent pathogens in humans is increasing because they have been identified as causative agents of sepsis in immunocompromised patients and neonates receiving parenteral lipid alimen...

during 2000-2001, soil pythium species were studied in fars province. soil samples werecollected from various parts of the province (abadeh, bajgah, bayza, borazjan, darab, estahban, fasa,khafr, sepidan, shiraz, moharloo, and zarghan). isolates were recovered from soil by baiting. specieswere identified based on morphological characters of sexual and asexual organs, growth rate at differenttemp...

Pseudobaeospora aphana, characterized by a brownish pileus with a lilac sheen, yellowish lamellae, a cutis of narrow hyphae on a subpellis of relatively wide and short cells, absence of cheilocystidia and color changes in KOH, and abundant clamp connections, is described as new. It was discovered during the Jan 2007 Mycoblitz at Point Reyes National Seashore, the fourth such event in an ongoing...