A Short Textbook of Basic and Medical Mycology

A Short Textbook of Basic and Medical Mycology

Authors: Harish C Gugnani,
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
Language

English
Publication date

2024
ISBN-13

978-81-972829-6-6




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 Harish C Gugnani

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