Subcutaneous mycosis endemic in South America and Central America in humans and _________, particularly found on the dorsal fin, head, and fluke (lobes of the tail).
This type of spore is formed when a relatively large cell, e.g., a spherule, undergoes progressive internal cleavage.
The life cycle of Pneumocystis includes an asexual ________ (feeding) form and a sexual cystic form.
This cosmopolitan genus, isolated from soil, animal dung, and decaying plant material, produces alternating arthroconidia which, at the time they are formed, are of the same width as the hyphae, and closely resembles Coccidioides in vitro, but this genus is monomorphic.
Most medically significant fungi belong as teleomorphs to this phylum.
This thermally dimorphic fungus's geographic distribution is restricted to South America where the majority of cases are diagnosed in Brazil, Venezuela, and Columbia.
To speed the identification process and to reduce the risk of laboratory-acquired infection, most mycology laboratories today use serodiagnosis method to identify highly virulent moulds via detection of ________ in the cell wall extracts of unknown fungus.
A common opportunistic infection in persons with HIV infection is an interstitial pneumonia caused by Pneumocystis jiroveci and nicknamed _______.
This genus contains only a single species and produces chains of darkly pigmented, spheroidal, large, e.g., 9-12 µm in size, yeast-like organisms typically in tissue, BUT has not yet been cultured in vitro.
A thermally dimorphic fungal genus that contains the agent of sporotrichosis.
Paracoccidioidomycosis is a chronic illness, acquired by inhalation generally, although also thought to result possibly from the use of _______ to clean teeth.
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