Medical Mycology - Laboratory Testing Guidelines

Author: Wang Duanli
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Publish Date: 2005-08-22
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 spans 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 susceptibility testing of antifungal drugs, dermatophytoses and dermatophytes, yeast infections and pathogenic yeasts, aspergillosis and aspergillus, zygomycosis and zygomycetes, chromoblastomycosis and chromoblastomyces, dimorphic fungal infections and dimorphic fungi, other fungal diseases and their causative fungi, rare fungal diseases and their causative agents, fungal-like microbial infections and their causative 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 fungal 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, thereby providing scientific evidence for 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 fungal diseases and over 200 medical fungi according to their classification features, diagnosis and differential diagnosis, and key identification points, offering a clear and organized presentation. This enables professional readers to quickly and conveniently grasp the diagnosis, treatment principles, and identification knowledge of medical fungi in a short time.
This book is an illustrated guide for the identification of medical fungi, a comprehensive monograph integrating modern knowledge of mycology and new diagnostic and detection techniques for medical pathogenic fungi. It is highly scientific, advanced, and clinically instructive. It is suitable for reference and study by physicians in departments such as dermatology, clinical laboratory, infectious diseases, hematology, and respiratory medicine, as well as laboratory staff and graduate students.