Dr Mohamed E Hamid

Laboratory Diagnosis of Fungal Infections: a Manual for Processing Specimens, Microscopy and Culture Techniques Dr Mohamed E Hamid

Publisher Marketing: Laboratory Diagnosis of Fungal Infections: A Manual for Processing Specimens, Microscopy and Culture Techniques This manual describes briefly how to make a laboratory diagnosis of suspected fungal diseases. The diagnosis begins after receiving a good quality clinical specimen, then how to process it and or store it, taking into account basic safety procedures. This manual- unlike others which take diseases or names of fungi as topics- it takes the clinical specimens as the subject for analysis. Subsequently, the manual explains the diagnostic process step by step with help of schematic charts and a number of macroscopic and microscopic illustrations and pictures. As a short handbook, this effort enables practioners, laboratory technicians and researchers to accomplish laboratory diagnosis and identification of unknown fungus to the Genus level. However, we explained methods to reaching identification to species levels to some important fungal groups namely: dermatophytes, Candida and Aspergillus species. Details for species identification can be found elsewhere. When you know the genus or you have doubts between two or three genera, then you can find details in many textbooks and web sites. For this purpose we have provided references and websites at the end of the book. Contributor Bio:  Hamid, Dr Mohamed E Mohamed E. Hamid, PhD, was born at Haj Abdullah, Gezira State, Sudan and received his Bachelor of Veterinary Science (1985) and Masters degree (1988) from the University of Khartoum, then awarded PhD (1994) from the University of Newcastle, United Kingdom. He conducted postdoctoral studies at Berlin's Free University (1995-1997) and received Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship from Germany in 1997. He worked at the University of Khartoum (1985-2009) till he reached Associate Professor. Currently he is working at the College of Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha and a visiting scholar at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, Germany. Dr Hamid is a member of several scientific societies concerning with Bacteriology in general and "Actinomycetes of clinical importance" in particular. He participated in many conferences and seminars and has published many scientific papers in international and regional journals. He published some books including: Laboratory Diagnosis of Fungal Infections and Delicate Environmental Sections.