The Editor is to be congratulated on largely achieving his aim of producing an inspiring work for the fungi of major medical concern, but dermatophytes and other opportunistic fungi do not feature as strongly as might be expected in such a title. This is perhaps a consequence of other fungal-human relationships being treated in a different volume of the series (Howard & Miller 1996). While not in itself a new vademecum of the whole field of medical mycology, this volume does approach that for the major human pathogens and should be accessible to both practising consultants and pathologists, as well as to researchers and those studying medical microbiology.
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