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Definitions

Medically Important Fungi

Zygomycetes

• Zygomycetes:General Considerations

• Zygomycetes:Direct Examination

• Common Zygomycetes

• Rhizopus

• Rhizomucor

• Absidia

• Cunninghamella

Hyalohyphomyces overview

• Aspergillus species

• Aspergillus fumigatus

• Aspergillus flavus

• Aspergillus niger

• Aspergillus terreus

• Aspergillus nidulus

• Aspergillus glaucus

• Aspergillus clavatus

Hyalohyphomyces with conidia in chains

• Penicillium

• Paecilomyces

• Scopulariopsis

Hyalohyphomyces with conidia in clusters

• Acremonium

• Fusarium

• Trichoderma

• Gliocladium

Hyalohyphomyces with single conidia

• Scedosporium apiospermum

• Pseudallescheria boydii

• Scedosporium inflatum

• Chrysosporium

• Sepedonium

Dematiaceous fungi

• Nomenclature and Disease

• Direct examination

Muriform macroconidia

• Alternaria

• Ulocladium

• Epicoccum

Transversely septated macroconidia

• Curvularia

• Drechslera

Microconidia

• Cladosporium

• Phialophora verrucosum

• Fonsecaea pedrosoi

• Wangiella dermatitidis

Other dematiaceous fungi

• Phaeoannellomyces werneckii

• Chaetomium

Dermatophytes

• General considerations

• Direct examination

• Microsporum canis

• Microsporum gypseum

• Microsporum audouinii

• Trichophyton verrucosum

• Trichophyton tonsurans

• Trichophyton rubrum

• Trichophyton mentagrophytes

• Epidermophyton floccosum

• Trichophyton equinum

Dimorphic fungi

• Histoplasma capsulatum

• Coccidioides immitis

• Sporothrix schenckii

• Penicillium marneffei

Yeasts

• Candida species

• Candida albicans

• Candida tropicalis

• Candida parapsilosis

• Cryptococcus species

• Cryptococcus neoformans

• Cryptococcus laurentii

Other: Pneumocystis carinii

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