Human and Animal Relationships

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIV

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2. Human Associations and Toxic Metabolites

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Fungal Factors Implicated in Pathogenesis

      • J. E. Cutler, Y. Han

      Pages 3-29

   3. Biochemistry of Enzymatic Pathogenicity Factors

      • G. T. Cole

      Pages 31-65

   4. Cell-Mediated Immunity

      • Juneann W. Murphy

      Pages 67-97

   5. Humoral Immunity

      • T. R. Kozel, D. M. Lupan

      Pages 99-115

   6. Yeast Infections in the Immunocompromised Host

      • T. J. Walsh

      Pages 117-124

   7. Infections Due to the Dimorphic Fungi

      • T. S. Harrison, S. M. Levitz

      Pages 125-146

   8. Opportunistic Mold Infections

      • Ronald G. Washburn

      Pages 147-158

   9. Organic Dust Toxic Syndrome

      • W. G. Sorenson, Daniel M. Lewis

      Pages 159-172

   10. Allergic Respiratory Responses to Fungi

       • J. H. Day

       Pages 173-191

   11. Mechanisms of Mycotoxicity

       • R. T. Riley, W. P. Norred

       Pages 193-211

   12. Epidemiology of Mycotoxin-Related Disease

       • C. P. Wild, A. J. Hall

       Pages 213-227

   13. Toxins and Psychoactive Compounds from Mushrooms

       • T. Wieland

       Pages 229-248

3. Animal Associations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 249-249

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   2. Veterinary Mycology

      • P. F. Lehmann

      Pages 251-263

   3. Biochemistry and Ecology of Anaerobic Fungi

      • M. K. Theodorou, W.-Y. Zhu, A. Rickers, B. B. Nielsen, K. Gull, A. P. J. Trinci

      Pages 265-295

   4. Fungal Diseases of Fish and Shellfish

      • T. G. Rand

      Pages 297-313

   5. Trichomycetes and the Arthropod Gut

      • R. W. Lichtwardt

      Pages 315-330

   6. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Entomopathogenic Fungi

      • G. G. Khachatourians

      Pages 331-363

Mycology, the study of fungi, originated as a subdiscipline of botany and was a descriptive discipline, largely neglected as an experimental science until the early years of this century. A seminal paper by Blakeslee in 1904 provided evidence for self-incompatibility, termed "heterothallism", and stimulated interest in studies related to the control of sexual reproduction in fungi by mating-type specificities. Soon to follow was the demonstration that sexually reproducing fungi exhibit Mendelian inheritance and that it was possible to conduct formal genetic analysis with fungi. The names Burgeff, Kniep and Lindegren are all associated with this early period of fungal genetics research. These studies and the discovery of penicillin by Fleming, who shared a Nobel Prize in 1945, provided further impetus for experimental research with fungi. Thus began a period of interest in mutation induction and analysis of mutants for bio­ chemical traits. Such fundamental research, conducted largely with Neurospora crassa, led to the one gene: one enzyme hypothesis and to a second Nobel Prize for fungal research awarded to Beadle and Tatum in 1958. Fundamental research in biochemical genetics was extended to other fungi, especially to Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and by the mid-1960s fungal systems were much favored for studies in eukaryotic molecular biology and were soon able to compete with bacterial systems in the molecular arena.

• cell
• diseases
• fungi
• growth
• immune response
• immunity
• immunology
• infection
• molecular biology
• mycology
• pathogene Pilze
• pathogenesis
• systematics
• toxin
• yeast

"I recommend this book as a source of accessible, readable accounts of the most current research areas in zoopathogenic fungi. It covers much of interest to all microbiologists; none of us are unaffected by the activities of the fungi that exist among us." Trends in Microbiology

• Department of Microbiology and Immunology - 43-239 CHS, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA

  Dexter H. Howard

• Plant Research Center, Mycotoxin Programme, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada

  J. David Miller

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