The fungi are now not considered plants as they once were but are part of the
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susceptibility testing is sometimes ordered to determine the most effective antifungal agent(s) to use.
What is Susceptibility testing
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Decomposers
Saprobes
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By how they reproduce sexually
How are fungi classified?
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Fungal tests are ordered whenever a doctor suspects that a person's signs and symptoms are due to a fungal infection
When is it ordered
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angiosperms
Which of these are not in the fungi group?
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Detects proteins associated with a specific fungus. This type of test is available for a variety of fungi.
What is Antigen testing
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Beneficial relation with host (both benefit)
Symbionts
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How many phyllums in fungi?
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Interpretation of fungal tests and examinations of slides and cultures often require experience in the study of fungi
What does the test result mean?
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false
Fungi make their own food.
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Detects immune response to a specific fungus; may be ordered on a single sample or on acute and convalescent samples collected 2 to 3 weeks apart.
What is Antibody testing
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Lives off of a host
Parasites
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division of fungi having sexually produced zygospores (example bread mold)
what is Zygomycota
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If a fungus that is causing an infection is not present in sufficient amount in a sample, a test to detect and/or identify the fungus may be falsely negative.
Is there anything else I should know?
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parasite
A living organism that lives off of another living organism without helping that organism is a
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Detects genetic material of a specific fungus.
What is Molecular tests for DNA, RNA
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finger like filaments woven together to make up structure, the branching, threadlike tubes that make up the bodies of Multicellular fungi
Hyphae
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Sac fungi, contains ascus, structure of reproduction that contain spores.
What is Ascomycota
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If you have been around excavation or spelunking in caves, you may have been exposed to fungal spores.
If I have a persistent cough and fever, why would my doctor ask me where I have been traveling and what activities I have been doing?
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symbiotic
A living organism that lives off another living thing and is helpful to that living organism is said to be
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Days to weeks after culture
How long is Susceptibility testing
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thread like structures that anchor non vascular plants to the ground (mosses and liverworts)
Rhizoids
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comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium,
What is Basidiomycota
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Many of the signs and symptoms associated with fungal lung infections could also be due to a tuberculosis infection.
If my doctor thinks I have a fungal infection, why is he testing me for tuberculosis?