RT Book, Section
A1 Alanio, Alexandre
A1 McCarthy, Matthew W.
A1 Walsh, Thomas J.
A1 Kauffman, Catherine Lisa
A1 Barnhill, Raymond L.
A2 Barnhill, Raymond L.
A2 Crowson, A. Neil
A2 Magro, Cynthia M.
A2 Piepkorn, Michael W.
A2 Kutzner, Heinz
A2 Desman, Garrett T.
SR Print(0)
ID 1178394346
T1 Fungal Infections
T2 Barnhill's Dermatopathology, 4e
YR 2020
FD 2020
PB McGraw Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071828222
LK dermatology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1178394346
RD 2024/04/25
AB The  kingdom  Fungi  is  a  group  of  heterotrophic  eukaryotic  organisms  composed  of  cells  enclosed  by  a  rigid  cell  wall  containing  ergosterol  and  chitin  or  other  polysaccharides  but  usually  not  cellulose.  Historically,  mycology  has  often  fallen  under  the  discipline  of  botany,  although  fungi  are  more  closely  related  to  animals  than  to  plants  and  are  part  of  the  eukaryotic  crown  group  that  diverged  from  each  other  roughly  1  billion  years  ago.1  Fungi  may  be  unicellular,  such  as  yeasts,  or  multicellular,  forming  long  filaments  known  as  hyphae.  Hyphae  are  divided  into  cells  by  septa.  Various  reproductive  structures  producing  conidia  (spores)  develop  on  hyphae;  the  morphology  of  these  structures  provides  the  traditional  basis  for  identification  in  the  mycology  laboratory  and  for  taxonomy.  Some  genera  have  the  capacity  to  form  yeast,  hyphal  forms,  or  both,  depending  on  environmental  conditions,  a  characteristic  known  as  dimorphism.