State-of-art review of molecular biology, genome structure, epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, control, and preve
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"This major text is designed to bring together in a single place the latest information on food borne human fungal pathogens, including mycotoxigenic fungi. At the same time it provides background to our knowledge of the fungi involved, especially in the light of molecular systematic studies. This combination is especially welcome as applied mycologists do not always have ready access to explanations of current methodologies and procedures for the naming and characterization of fungi.... This book merits a place in all laboratories dealing with aspects of food spoilage and clinically important fungi, and is also a source of much other information on the genera treated that will be pertinent to those working with them in other areas of applied mycology, especially biodeterioration, food spoilage, and postharvest losses."
—IMA Fungus, Vol. 6, No. 2
Table of Contents
Introduction. Mycotoxin-Producing and Clinically Important Fungi: Their Classification and Naming. Phylogenetic Analysis Especially in Relation to Fungi. Fungal DNA Barcoding. Metabolomics in Food- and Waterborne Fungal Pathogens. Systems Biology in Fungi. Brief History of Fungal Genomics from Linkage Maps to Sequences. Recommendations for Quantitative PCR Aspergillus Assays. Acremonium. Alternaria Mycoses. Alternaria spp. and Mycotoxins. Aspergillus and Aspergillosis. Aspergillus Mycotoxins. Aureobasidium. Candida as Foodborne Pathogens. Chaetomium. Claviceps: The Ergot Fungus. Curvularia. Encephalitozoon. Enterocytozoon. Mycotoxins of Fusarium spp.: Biochemistry and Toxicology. Lichtheimia (ex Absidia). Microascus/Scopulariopsis. Mucormycosis. Paecilomyces: Mycotoxin Production and Human Infection. Penicillium Mycotoxins: Physiological and Molecular Aspects. Phoma as Opportunistic Fungal Pathogens in Humans. Yeasts Previously Included in the Genus Pichia. Medically Important Rhodotorula Species. Saccharomyces and Kluyveromyces Infections. Trichoderma Mycoses and Mycotoxins. Trichosporon, Magnusiomyces, and Geotrichum. Wallemia. Vaccine Development against Fungi. Fungi in Drinking Water.
