1 Board Certification is a voluntary process, and one that is very different from medical licensure. 2  Obtaining a medical license sets the minimum competency requirements to diagnose and treat patients, it is not specialty specific.
Fungal diseases are often caused by fungi that are common in the environment. Fungi live outdoors in soil and on plants and trees as well as on many indoor surfaces and on human skin.Most fungi are not dangerous, but some types can be harmful to health.spergillosis-Caused by the fungus Aspergillus and usually occurs in people with lung diseases or weakened immune systems. 1  Symptoms. 2  Risk and Prevention. 3  Diagnosis and Testing.
The discipline of biology devoted to the study of fungi is known as mycology, which is often regarded as a branch of botany, even though genetic studies have shown that fungi are more closely related to animals than to plants. Pathogenic fungi are fungi that cause disease in humans or other organisms.The study of pathogenic fungi is referred to as medical mycology. Although fungi are eukaryotic organisms, many pathogenic fungi are also microorganisms.Figure 1. A budding yeast: the Circular bud scars seen on the surface of the cell on the right represent sites of previous budding.ungi are classified as a kingdom that is separate from plants, animals, and bacteria. One major difference is that fungal cells have cell walls that contain chitin, unlike the cell walls of plants, which contain cellulose.