This second edition has been throughly updated to keep pace with rapid changes in medical science. The book broadens the reader's knowledge and provides current information regarding the emerging pathogens that are being encountered. Fungal morphology, cultivation identification, pathogensis pathology and laboratory diagnosis of mycoses have been described in detail. The book is divided into seven sections: general topics, superficial cutaneous mycoses, subcutaneous mycoses, systemic mycoses, opportinities mycoses, miscellaneous mycoses, and appendices.