Descriptions of Medical Fungi, 3rd edition

Since its primary release in 1992 and a second version in 2007 the book 'Descriptions of Medical Fungi' has been impressively advanced in its utility for identification of fungi. The initial editions of this book titled 'Descriptions of Medical QAP Fungi' were prepared as description sheets to facilitate identification of fungi at participant laboratories in the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA) Mycology Quality Assurance Program (QAP). Keeping pace with the major shifts in fungal nomenclature, an updated and refurbished third edition is now available. The authors have attempted to reconcile and portray the present-day morphological description of medically important fungi with supplementary phylogenetic studies.

The morphological descriptions of pathogenic fungi have been kept brief and many have been based on descriptions...