Mycology

Learn to diagnose fungal infections, from skin and nail mycoses to cryptococcal meningitis, aspergillosis and Candida auris.

Mycology covers the fungi that cause human disease and the laboratory techniques used to detect and identify them.

You will learn fungal biology, pathogenesis and laboratory safety, then specimen collection, direct microscopy, culture, identification and non-culture tests such as antigen detection and PCR. The course works through superficial, cutaneous and subcutaneous mycoses, invasive candidiasis, cryptococcosis, aspergillosis, mucormycosis, Pneumocystis pneumonia and the endemic mycoses.

It also covers antifungal drugs and resistance, fungal infections in HIV and other high-risk patients, mycotoxins, and quality assurance in the mycology laboratory.