Fungi
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- Antibiotics
- Penicillium
- Bread, bear and wine
- Saccharoyces Cerevisiae
- citric acid, soy sauce, vinegar
- Aspergillus
- dermatophyte
- fungal skin infection Tinea Corporis-body Tinea Capitis-scalp Tinea cruris-jock itch Tinea Pedis-athletes foot
- dimorphic fungi
- Can grow as a mold or yeast. 37 degrees = yeast like. 25 degrees C= mold like most pathenogenic fungi is dimorphic
- Mycology
- Study of fungi
- mycorrhiza
- symbiotic relationship between fungus and plant roots
- Mycoses
- fungal infection -systemic (deep) -Subcutaneous (beneath skin) -cutaneounous (dematophyte) superficial opportunistic
- Obligate anarobe
- Dies in presence of oxygen. Most Fungi however are aerobic or faculative aerobes.
- reproduction of fungi
- all by means of asexual, some by sexual
- saprophytes
- obtain nutrients from dead organic material
- Telomorphic
- can reproduce sexually and asexually with spores. Although asexual is most common
- Yeast
- unicellular, reproduce by budding, like bacteria