Medical Mycology: Laboratory Testing Guidelines

Author: Wang Duanli
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Publishing Date: 2005-05-01
Features: The book "Medical Mycology - Laboratory Testing Guide" is a high-level professional reference co-authored by Professor Wang Duanli, Professor Li Ruoyu, Professor Wang Aiping, and over ten experts and professors from the Beijing University Fungal and Fungal Disease Research Center, along with professional graduate students. The book is divided into twenty chapters and contains approximately 1 million words. The main content includes: fungal classification and nomenclature, fungal morphology, medical fungal laboratory testing methods, histopathology of fungal diseases, serological diagnosis of fungal infections, molecular biology of fungi, fungal strain preservation methods, the application of electron microscopy in medical mycology, an introduction to antifungal drugs, in vitro antifungal susceptibility tests, dermatophytoses and dermatophytes, yeast infections and pathogenic yeasts, aspergillosis and aspergillus, zygomycosis and zygomycetes, chromoblastomycosis and chromoblastomycetes, dimorphic fungal infections and dimorphic fungi, other fungal diseases and their pathogenic fungi, rare fungal diseases and their pathogenic agents, fungal-like microbial infections and their pathogenic agents, and Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia. The appendix provides detailed information on various treatment drugs, culture media, and examination equipment.
The book systematically selects exquisite medical mycology images accumulated over decades by the Beijing University Fungal and Fungal Disease Research Center, along with over 1,000 images related to light microscopy, electron microscopy, direct microscopy, culture, fungal disease cases, and pathology, to support the scientific basis of professional academic viewpoints. It extensively collects modern knowledge and classification in mycology, modern concepts and regulations, as well as various diagnostic techniques. It systematically describes common clinical fungal diseases and over 200 medical fungi according to their classification characteristics, diagnosis and differential diagnosis, and key identification points, providing clear and organized explanations. This allows professional readers to quickly and conveniently grasp the diagnosis, treatment principles, and identification knowledge of medical fungi in a short time.
This book is a visually rich medical mycology identification guide, a comprehensive professional monograph integrating modern knowledge in mycology and advanced medical pathogenic fungal diagnosis and detection techniques. It is highly scientific, advanced, and clinically instructive. It is suitable for physicians in clinical departments such as dermatology, laboratory medicine, infectious diseases, hematology, and respiratory medicine, as well as laboratory staff and graduate students for reference in their work and studies.