Last updated on June 14th, 2021Mucormycosis is a rare and life-threatening fungal disease caused by a group of fungi collectively known as mucormycetes. Since the disease is very fatal, timely diagnosis is crucial for treatment, […]
Last updated on June 14th, 2021Blastomyces dermatitidis is a thermally dimorphic fungus that grows as a mycelial form in the environment and as a thick-walled budding yeast in tissues (at 37°C). It causes blastomycosis, a […]
Last updated on May 25th, 2021Detection of specific antigens present in the sample (blood, urine, CSF, or stool) using immunologic methods such as precipitin tests, particle agglutination tests, immunofluorescence, immunochromatographic or enzyme immunoassays are the […]
Last updated on June 14th, 2021Aspergillus is a ubiquitous mold found throughout the world in air, soil, water, and decaying vegetation. It is an opportunistic pathogen causing infections mainly in people with impaired immunity (people […]
Last updated on June 1st, 2021Early diagnosis of fungal infection is critical for effective treatment. For many decades, culture, direct microscopy, and histopathology have been the foundation for the diagnosis of fungal infections. The severely […]
Last updated on June 1st, 2021Histoplasma capsulatum is an intracellular, thermally dimorphic fungi (grows as a yeast in body temperature/37°C in humans, mammals or in culture media and as mold in 25°C in environment/culture media) of medical importance […]
Last updated on June 24th, 2021Cryptococcus neoformans is a yeast with a prominent polysaccharide capsule. It is an opportunistic fungal pathogen notoriously known as the most common cause of fungal meningitis (infection and inflammation of […]
Last updated on September 18th, 2021Candida albicans is an endogenous organism, found in 40 to 80% of normal human beings as commensal in gastrointestinal tract, oropharynx. It is a commonest cause of candidiasis (moniliasis). Candida albicans […]
Last updated on June 24th, 2021Germ tube test is a screening test for the presumptive identification of Candida albicans. Candida dubliniensis can also form germ tubes and Candida tropicalis can produce pseudohyphae that closely resemble […]
Last updated on May 30th, 2021If you observe a probable fungus in the culture plate, colony characteristics are first assessed to determine the broad group of the isolate. Once the initial observations are made, the following microscopic […]
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