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Dimorphic Fungi in Biology and Medicine (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
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Dimorphic Fungi in Biology and Medicine (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
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Fungal dimorphism is a topic that sounds inherently too rarified to
attract more than a specialist audience. Yet some 230 individuals
representing an eclectic mixture of interests, from basic science
to medical practice, gathered in Churchill College, Cambridge in
Semptember 1992 for a meeting devoted only to this subject. The
symposium was the fourth in a series "Topics in Mycology" to be
jointly organized by the Janssen Research Foundation and the
International Society for Human and Animal Mycology. The
participants enjoyed a rich and varied diet of oral presentations
and poster displays in the field of fungal morphogenesis. This book
sets down in print the material presented at the dimorphism
symposium. We think that the high quality of these papers conveys
very well the flavor of what was an excellent meeting. The
selection of contributions in this volume covers very wide ground
indeed. Chapters devoted to some non-pathogenic fungi are included,
because the scientific basis of morphological development belongs
to the fields of cellular and molecular biology: it does not
recognize the boundary imposed by considerations of virulence of a
fungus for a human host. Yet morphogenetic change in those fungi
that do cause human disease frequently appears to be a component of
the pathological process: many important pathogens change from a
hyphal form in the external environment to a round form in infected
tissues. This relationship between dimorphism and pathogenicity is
the point of contact between pure biology and medicine.
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