Medically Important Fungi: A Guide to Identification [Paperback]

Davise H. Larone (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1555810918 | ISBN-13: 978-1555810917 | Publication Date: May 1995 | Edition: 3 Sub

The previous editions of this book have become well known and well loved by all mycologists working in a diagnostic setting. It is very simple to use, and allows laboratory workers to identify fungal pathogens under the microscope by their morphology and other readily identifiable features. New to this extensively revised and updated edition is a section of photo-micrographs of all the major organisms.

Product Details

• Paperback: 274 pages
• Publisher: ASM Press; 3 Sub edition (May 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1555810918
• ISBN-13: 978-1555810917
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,046,646 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It's a good book for fungi identification, October 24, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Medically Important Fungi: A Guide to Identification (Paperback)

I have had very satisfactory experiences in the use of this book as a guide for the identification of Food Fungi, even though outside written for Fungi of Medical Importance. It displays a very particular approach that makes extremely didactic, mainly for the novices in the subject or that they do not make fungi identification of routine. It presents first a classification of the fungi based on the color of the colony and the characteristic formation of conidias of the fungi genera. In one second part of the book it makes a more detailed description of each one of the considered generas. And finally it makes an review of the main medias used in the isolation and identification of fungi.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fungal ID, November 24, 2001

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Gary Smith (Adelaide, SA Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Medically Important Fungi: A Guide to Identification (Paperback)

It is a well written, and illustrated book for the idenfication of fungi, however, the inclusion of plates for appearance on media and more direct photos would improve the publication (and no doubt increase the cost) otherwise it is a good book for the identication of fungi in the laboratory that processes some fungi, as an offshoot to the microbiology department, a mycology department would include this in its library but would include other texts, and resources. In summary good at uni good on the bench, but would need suplementation in a pure mycology department.