Introduction To Medical Mycology
Introduction To Medical Mycology
Introduction To Medical Mycology
MEDICAL
MYCOLOGY
By
Dr.Abbas Obaid Farhan
(Ph.D. Biotech., IIT,Roorkee,INDIA).,
College of Al-Anbar Medicine,
Deptt. of Microbiology
2020
Fungi (yeast& molds) are eukaryotic •
organisms whereas bacteria are
prokaryotic, they differ regarding;
Size-diameter •
4 um-------1um
Nucleus. •
Cytoplasm •
Cell membrane, •
Sterol---absent in bacteria
Cell wall, •
Chitin ----peptidoglycane
Thermal dimorphism. •
Metabolism. •
Fungal cell wall
Consists of chitin not peptidoglycan like •
bacteria.
2. Yeasts
3. Yeast-like fungi
4. Dimorphic fungi
Filamentous Fungi
1.The basic morphological elements of
filamentous fungi are long branching
filaments or hyphae, which intertwine
to produce a mass of filaments or
mycelium
Mucoid
colonies
Cryptococcus neoformans
Yeast-Like
1.These are fungi which occur in the form of
budding yeast-like cells and as chains of
elongated unbranched filamentous cells
which present the appearance of broad
septate hyphae. these hyphae intertwine
to form a pseudomycelium.
SEM
Thermally Dimorphic Fungi
These are fungi which exhibit a
filamentous mycelial morphology
(saprophytic phase) when grown at
room temperature 27oC, but have a
typical yeast morphology (parasitic
phase) inside the body and when
grown at 37oC in the laboratory (e.g.
Histoplasmosis).
Histoplasma capsulatum 27oC
Histoplasma capsulatum 37oc
Human fungal infection;
Superficial •
Subcutaneous •
Systemic •
Superficial mycoses
Subcutaneous mycoses
Systemic Mycoses
Systemic Mycoses
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