Medical mycology deals with those infections in humans, and animals resulting from pathogenic fungi. As a separate discipline, the concepts, methods, diagnosis, and treatment of fungal diseases of humans are specific. Incorporating the very latest information concerning this area of vital interest to research and clinical microbiologists,Fundamental Medical Mycology balances clinical and laboratory knowledge to provide clinical laboratory scientists, medical students, interns, residents, and fellows with in-depth coverage of each fungal disease and its etiologic agents from both the laboratory and clinical perspective. Richly illustrated throughout, the book includes numerous case presentations.

Errol Reiss, Ph.D., is Adjunct Professor of Microbiology at Emory University School of Medicine (EUSM), Atlanta, Georgia, and Research Microbiologist, Molecular Typing Unit, Mycotic Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia. Department of Microbiology and Immunology. Dr. Reiss previously published a single-author textbook in the field of medical mycology (see below) and has published several book chapters, review articiles and a total of? 87 primary research literature publications.

H. Jean Shadomy, Ph.D., is Adjunct Professor of Dermatology, EUSM, Atlanta. A career microbiologist, she has several book chapters and more than 40 published primary literature articles to her name.