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COURSE OUTLINE: Introduction: Overview, Safety. Fungal Detection: Direct Techniques, Isolation Techniques. Organism Identification: Yeasts, Moulds. Disease Associations: Superficial Mycoses, Subcutaneous Mycoses, Systemic Mycoses. Opportunistic Fungi: Overview, Common Opportunists, Less Common Opportunists.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Recognize the four classes of fungi and the sexual cycles used to divide each group
• Demonstrate the ability to use colour, shape, texture, and differential media and tests to accurately and correctly describe a specimen
• Describe in detail the most common procedures to identify yeasts and moulds
• Recognize further tests that are available if necessary
• List the conidiogenesis methods commonly used in the laboratory to recognize and define different moulds
• List the common superficial, subcutaneous, and systemic mycoses and recognize the clinical presentation, obverse and reverse colonies, and microscopic features of each
• Identify macroscopically and microscopically common opportunistic fungi as well as some of the less common opportunists

System Requirements: Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.0 or above, Windows Media Player 6.4, or above, Wins 98, or above, Pentium-class processor or above, Display capable of 800x600 or greater resolution, Display capable of displaying 16-bit colour, Sound card and speakers (recommended, not required), Printer.