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Authoritative facts about the skin from the New Zealand Dermatological Society.

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The Mycology Unit provides a definitive identification service on fungi and yeasts isolated from medical and veterinary clinical specimens. It also performs antifungal drug sensitivity tests on fungi and yeasts, and a serological tests for several systemic fungal infections. For example, Cryptococcosis, Aspergillosis, Histoplasmosis, Blastomycosis and Coccidioidomycosis.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. It collects materials in all major areas of the health sciences and to a lesser degree in such areas as chemistry, physics, botany and zoology. The collections stand at 5 million items--books, journals, technical reports, manuscripts, microfilms, photographs and images. Housed within the Library is one of the world's finest medical history collections of old (pre-1914) and rare medical texts, manuscripts, and incunabula.

Dermatlas - a collection of 12041 images in dermatology and skin disease

Images & info on fungi; How fungus infects people, animals, & plants; How fungal infections are treated with antifungal drugs

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