Microsporum - Dictionary Of Medical Terms

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Microsporum - Dictionary Of Medical Terms
Microsporum - Dictionary Of Medical Terms

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Microsporum

Microsporum (Microsporum) - a genus of parasitic fungi, representing the class of imperfect fungi; contains microsporia pathogens in animals and humans.

Allocate microsporum:

  • anthropophilic (Greek anthropos - man + phileo - to love) - a name that unites species that are pathogenic only for humans (for example, rusty microsporum);
  • zoophilic (Greek zoon - animal + phileo - to love) is a name that unites species that affect mainly animals, from which the pathogen can then be transmitted to humans;
  • fluffy (obsolete - lanosum; canis) - a species characterized by the appearance on nutrient media of gray-white colonies of microorganisms with a fluffy surface; pathogenic to humans, dogs and cats;
  • rusty (fernigineum) - a species characterized by the appearance on nutrient media of colonies of microorganisms of the color of rusty iron; is pathogenic only for humans.

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