A Short Textbook of Basic and Medical Mycology
Authors:
Harish C Gugnani,
Publish Date/ Year : 2024 | Format: Hardcover | Genre : Microbiology | Other Book Detail
Publish Date/ Year : 2024 | Format: Hardcover | Genre : Microbiology | Other Book Detail
This book though designated as short textbook concisely provides various aspects of basic and
medical mycology useful for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate medicals students. It
may interest postgraduate students of Botany and other biological sciences. The illustrations
given in the book will help in enhancing the learning of important aspects of basic and medical
mycology A noteworthy feature of the book is that some of the rare infections caused by
dermatophytes, systemic fungal pathogens and opportunistic fungi have been dealt with in
detail. Another unique feature in this book is the Introduction part in the write-up on fungal
disease mycetoma, mentioning how the disease was recognized in ancient Indian texts. The first
chapter deals in detail with development of mycology in India since the time of E. J. Butler (a
physician by training) who came to India and got interested in working with fungi and wrote
a monograph of the genus Pythium and book “Fungi and Diseases in Plants, which till today
sever as classic for future studies. His other writings are mentioned in Chapter. Credit must be
given to early missionaries and others collected fungi and tried to have them identified. Butler’s
work stimulated many Indian botanists to male contribution to mycology and forest and plant
pathology as mentioned in detail in the Chapter 1.
Pages
157 pages
157 pages
Language
English
English
Publication date
2024
2024
ISBN-13
978-81-972829-6-6
978-81-972829-6-6
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