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January 1, 2016
The number of fungal species is conservatively estimated to be 1.5 million, and at least 98,000 have been described formally (1). Although more than 300 of these are documented as causing disease in humans, only about 100 are encountered regularly as patho ...
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January 1, 2014
Traditional distinctions regarding inherent virulence and portal of infection provide a useful starting point for considering the pathogenic fungi. Discussion of fungal agents of human disease in this chapter is organism based rather than disease based. Th ...
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January 1, 2011
Phaeohyphomycosis, a term first introduced by Ajello and colleagues [1], is an encompassing clinical designation for a spectrum of infections caused by darkly pigmented moulds [2, 3]. In its simplest definition, phaeohyphomycosis is an infection caused by ...
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