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By K.J. Kwon-Chung and John E. Bennett. 866 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, Lea and Febiger, 1992. $69.50. ISBN 0-8121-1463-9.

The authors of Medical Mycology, authorities in clinical mycology, state that their book is directed toward a broad audience. It encompasses a vast amount of information about increasingly important fungal infections in normal and immunocompromised hosts.

The introductory chapters, including that on laboratory aspects (in particular the descriptive mycology), might at first glance be of more interest to laboratory workers than to clinicians, but the definitions of terms are lucid and useful, and the examples given of medically important fungi are apt. The chapter on laboratory diagnosis contains useful tables on identification.

The chapter on antifungal agents contains appropriate admonitions . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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