il128 at my-dejanews.com wrote:
>> Doh! Thanks, Phil. I had better break out that old Mycology book and brush up
> on my Perfect and imperfect forms of fungi. Hell, these days do they even
> call them fungi anymore. :^) Paul
>> In article <359AE507.1A98 at earthlink.net>,
>jorge2 at earthlink.net wrote:
> >
> > il128 at my-dejanews.com wrote:
> > >
> > > The morphology without any size determination is not much help. How big is
> > > this thing? It looks overly large to be a fungus. I would guess and it is a
> > > guess that what you are seeing is a protozoan. I think I should add that
> most
> > > fungi that invade the blood are yeast forms not imperfect forms of fungi.
> > > Many of these yeasts revert to imperfect forms after thay have invaded the
> > > body. If the individual has an fungal infection and there are fragments of
> > > the imperfect form in the blood the infection has progressed to the point of
> > > being untreatable. Paul
> > >
> > > In article <6n8kot$e1c at bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net>,
> > > "Dr. John Allocca" <allocca at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I'm having a great deal of difficulty identifying what looks like a fungus
> > > > in human blood. You can see the micrographs at:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.allocca.com/bood1.htm> > > >
> > > > Please reply by e-mail.
> > > >
> > > > Thank you
> > > > --
> > > > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > > > John A. Allocca, Sc.D., Ph.D., C.C.N.
> > > > Medical Research Scientist, Certified Clinical Nutritionist
> > > > Allocca Technical, Inc.
> > > > 256 Main St, Suite 1105, Northport, NY 11768
> > > > Phone: (516) 757-3919 Fax: (516) 757-3918
> > > > E-Mail: john at allocca.com> > > > http://www.allocca.com> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==-----
> > > http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum
> >
> > Paul seems right on - the entity apears to be too large and not
> > consitent in morphology with the typical fungal pathogens. I think he
> > is confused regading "perfect" forms and is citing the yeast-mold
> > conversion of dimorphic fungi (neither of these is necessarily
> > "perfect").
> > Why do you think it's a fungus? Any staining or culture results? You
> > might try some of the Calcofluor-based stains to look for Beta-linkages.
> >
> > Phil Geis
> >
>> -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==-----
>http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum
Paul:
I know - I'm such an old PP (pre-PCR) mycologist that the old taxonomy
is still the way I think of 'em.
