What's the difference between mycologist and mycology?
Mycologist
Definition:
(n.) One who is versed in, or who studies, mycology.
Example Sentences:
(1) The availability of an epidemiologic typing system for Candida species that is sensitive, rapid, inexpensive, and easy to perform would clearly be an advantage to the mycologist, microbiologist, and epidemiologist in the ongoing struggle to understand the epidemiology and pathogenesis of candidiasis.
(2) Even though most medical mycologists consider P. americana as synonymous with P. verrucosa, others maintain them as two distinct species on the basis that the phialides of P. americana have deeper collarettes than those of P. verrucosa.
(3) All of these techniques will continue to provide mycologists with the means to gain morphological and analytical data at the ultrastructural level.
(4) Our experience suggests that collaboration between physicians, pathologists and mycologists should bring about increased international awareness of the deep mycoses.
(5) Fourteen points which mycologists dealing with the systematics of fungi (including yeasts) are encouraged to adhere to in their work are presented as a Code of Practice for Systematic Mycologists.
(6) Nowadays most mycologists consider T. rosaceum to be a synonym of the T. megninii, although some French authors still use Sabouraud's denomination.
(7) Changes in the number of Pityrosporum ovale were scored by a mycologist.
(8) Cladosporium trichoides Emmons has been treated by some mycologists as a synonym of Cladosporium bantianum (Sacc.)
(9) A great number of human diseases can be attributed in some way to the effects of fungi, and consequently have long been recognized as important to the dermatologist and mycologist.
(10) It is emphasized that a wider application of this newly introduced inexpensive and safe staining solution will help the mycologists to study the morphological characteristics of yeast, molds, and Prototheca obtained from man, animals and environment.
(11) No peptidic main toxin as described by other mycologists could be detected.
(12) Approximately 20% of all known fungal species are obligate symbionts in lichens; this major group of fungi has been long neglected by mycologists, and overlooked by industry.
(13) Trichophyton persicolor was described by Sabouraud in 1910, and was mistaken by most mycologists for Trichophyton mentagrophytes.
(14) All patients had tinea versicolor clinically diagnosed, then confirmed by a positive patch test, as assessed by a single mycologist.
(15) 8 mycologists reviewed the medical records of 83 patients with disseminated crypttococcosis living in Brazil to examine the varieties of Cryptococcus neoformans.
(16) Since the earliest research in transmission electron microscopy in the 1950s, mycologists have kept pace with the developments in all areas of electron microscopy and have used them to great advantage in generating fine structural information on fungi.
(17) Classical mycologists may be at a greater risk for infection with organisms under investigation than medical mycologists.
(18) The accidental infection, in Paris, followed inoculation of a culture from a Vietnamese bamboo rat into the finger of a mycologist.
(19) Identity of the fungal sporangium and its relationship with the disease have baffled medical scientists and mycologists for several decades.
(20) The group was led by an amateur mycologist who had been eating hand-picked mushrooms without complications for 20 years.
Mycology
Definition:
(n.) That branch of botanical science which relates to the musgrooms and other fungi.
Example Sentences:
(1) The information service provided by the Review of Medical and Veterinary Mycology is described and compared with other information services.
(2) Epidemiological an mycological data of a 30 years long study on 366 cases of tinea manuum.
(3) Of a total of 1950 patients with various pneumologic affections 115 cases were selected, on the basis of positive mycologic results on examination of the bronchial aspirate.
(4) An epidemiological study of dermatophytes was achieved during the years 1983-1984 in the Mycology Laboratory of Saint-Louis' Hospital.
(5) By the 2-week follow-up visit 9 additional patients were healed, and 4 weeks after treatment all 20 patients were both clinically and mycologically healed.
(6) One week after the start of therapy the mycological cure rate was 87% in the ketoconazole group and 95% in the miconazole group, indicating that both regimens are equally effective.
(7) Mycological and clinical investigations were carried out in 193 homosexual men, 83 of whom had HIV antibodies, and 117 heterosexual men.
(8) They were clinically not suspicious of candidosis and had no remarkable mycological findings.
(9) Mycological tests were made in 212 patients who had lesions with clinical appearance of dermatophytic infection.
(10) The mycologic and pathophysiologic characteristics of tinea versicolor infection are discussed, and several hypothesis are offered to explain the presence of tinea versicolor in these patients.
(11) With miconazole, only 79% (19 of 24 patients) became mycologically negative during treatment and this figure decreased further to 74% (14 of 19 patients) after therapy.
(12) This was concomitantly confirmed by histopathological and mycological studies of biopsy specimens obtained from the lesion at an interval of several weeks.
(13) The Sabouraud medium conventionally used for medical mycology makes almost no distinction among them.
(14) The postflight phase of the Apollo MEED mycology attempts to identify survival according to exposure to specific quantitative space flight factors, while the second phase of studies identifies qualitative change other than cell survival [57].
(15) It was shown that for the mycological examination of certain foods the ADM medium can make an important contribution to the identification of potential aflatoxin producers.
(16) within 5 days, in contrast to the average of 33 days required by the routine mycological procedure.
(17) The efficacy and tolerability of itraconazole in chromoblastomycosis due to Fonsecaea pedrosoi were evaluated in a non-comparative open clinical trial in 19 Brazilian patients with histopathologically and mycologically proven active chromoblastomycosis.
(18) The cream preparation and solution of lactoconazole at concentrations of more than 0.25% were highly effective in either tinea models, and at concentrations of more than 1%, lactoconazole achieved complete mycological cure.
(19) The overall cure rate (patients with both clinical and mycological cure) at the end of treatment for tioconazole treated patients was 78%, for the comparative imidazole group it was 76% and for vehicle cream it was 39%.
(20) Clinical data on 1068 cases of dermatophytosis as well as mycological data on 382 of these cases seen from March 1983 to September 1984 are reported.