MYCOLOGY AND VIROLOGY 4.

Annellide
UNIT 1: BASIC CONCEPTS IN MYCOLOGY – A cell that produces and extrudes conidia;
– The tip tapers, lengthens and acquires a
ADDITIONAL NOTES ONLY PLEASE REFER TO ring of cell wall material as each conidium is
YOUR MODULE released;
– Oil immersion magnification may be
DEFINITION OF TERMS
required to see the rings.
1. Anamorph – Annellide is associated if a fungus has the
– An asexual form of a fungus. capability to produce “annelloconidia”
2. Teleomorph – Annello: pertains to the term “annellide”
– A sexual for of a fungus. – Conidia: pertains to the asexual
3. Assimilation reproductive spore of a fungus
– Ability of a fungus to use a specific carbon – NOTE: “PHORE”: pertains to a
or nitrogen source/fuel for growth; stem or stalk
– Assimilation is read by the presence or – ex: anellophore
absence of growth 5. Columella
ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION
– Enlarged, dome-shaped tip of a
sporangiophore that extends into the
sporangium.
6. Conidiogenous cell
– The cell that produces conidia
– Conidio: pertaining to the term conidia
7. Pheo-
– A prefix meaning dark (brownish or black)
8. Phaeohyphomycosis
– A subcutaneous or systemic disease
caused by a variety of black fungi that
develop in tissue or dark hyphae and or
yeastlike cells.
– A fungal infection
9. Truncate
– Cut off sharply;
– Ending abruptly with a flattened edge.
MYCOLOGY
– Study of fungi and their biology.
– Medical (Clinical) mycology is a branch of
mycology that deals with the study of medically
important fungi.
– There are at least 100,000 named fungal
species.
– Estimated that the number of undiscovered
species would range from 1 million to more than
10 million.
– About 1000-1500 species are described each
year.

IMPORTANCE OF MYCOLOGY
– Due to increasing number of ubiquitous
environmental molds.
– Implicated as opportunistic pathogens, capable
of producing serious or lethal disease in hosts
that are immunocompromised (debilitated)
– One of the leading cause of nosocomial
infections (hospital-acquired infections)
 – Often mistaken for as bacterial infection that
produces complicated and fatal consequences
– Patients might receive wrong medications
– Increase morbidity (travel to a geographical
area where a fungus exists as part of the
commensal flora of the local population, or is
endemic to the area
– Aging population

ADDITIONAL NOTES FOR TAXONOMY

Reference: Video1 18:00 for discussion
ADDITIONAL NOTES FOR FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY
Reference: Video2
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