Mycology/Parasitology

involved in localized and disseminated disease, including of the kidney, lung, skin, eye, heart, and other tissue types

Trichosporon sp.

found as part of normal flora in skin, mouth, vaginal tract, and GI tract.

Candida albicans

Cryptococcus neoformans

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

causes tinea versicolor. cells are round on one end and bluntly cut off at the other, where wide budlike structures form singly

Malassezia furfur

Geotrichum candidum

endemic east of the rocky mountains

Histoplasma capsulatum

endemic east of mississippi river

Blastomyces dermatitidis

endemic to arid southwest US and mexico. causes valley fever.

Coccidioides immitis

prevalent in south america. causes a chronic granulomatous disease

Paracoccidioides vrasiliensis

Talaromyces marneffei

Sporothrix schenckii

Rhizopus sp.

Mucor sp.

Rhizomucor sp

Fonsecaea sp

Rhinocladiella mackenziei

Phialophora verrucosa

Cladosporium sp

Cladophialophora carrionii

Exophiala sp

Hortaea werneckii

Madurella mycetomatis

causes black piedra

Piedraia hortae

water damaged homes and buildings

Stachybotrys chartarum

Curvularia sp

Alternaria sp

Microsporum sp

Trichophyton mentagrophytes

birds on a fence

Trichophyton rubrum

Epidermophyton floccosum

Aspergillus fumigatus

Aspergillus flavus

Penicillium sp.

Fusarium sp

Diphyllobothrium latum egg

paragonimus westermanI

hermaphroditic as an adult

clonorchis sinensis

fasciola hepatica

schistosoma haematobium

schistosoma mansoni

taenia sp

hymenolepis nana egg

hymenolepis nana

taenia solium

taenia saginata

diphyllobothrium latum

Trichuris trichuria

ascaris lumbricoides egg

ascaris lumbricoides

enterobius vermicularis egg

enterobius vermicularis

ancylostoma duodenale

Necator americanus

iodamoeba butschlii

entamoeba histolytica

entamoeba hartmanni

chilomastix mesnili

Endolimax nana

dracunculus medinensis

wuchereria bancrofti

onchocerca volvulus

brugia malayi

Loa loa

Acanthomoeba

trichuris trichiura egg

entamoeba coli