Fungi Diseases Grouping

Fungi diseases that suffer by human can divide into several groups. This groups depend on type of how this fungi infected to the human body. The dept of infection and also the place or organ where the fungi is infected our body:

• Fungi that just infected on the body surface groups into superficial mycoses are caused by fungi that grow only on the surface of the skin or hair.
• Fungi that infected to the bottom area of our body. Cutaneous mycoses or dermatomycoses include such infections as athlete's foot and ringworm, in which growth occurs only in the superficial layers of skin, nails, or hair.
• Most deep infect our body grouping as subcutaneous mycoses, fungi penetrate below the skin to involve the subcutaneous, connective, and bone tissue.
• Deeper penetrate to our body groups into systemic mycoses or deep mycoses, this fungi can infect internal organs and become widely disseminated throughout the body. This type is often fatal.

The most common type of fungi diseases worldwide is sporotrichosis, which occurs most often in gardeners and farmers who come in direct contact with soil. This is a chronic infection caused by the fungus Sporothrix schenckii, occurring in three forms. The 'cutaneous lymphatic form' is characterized by a single pustule or nodule that forms at the site of invasion. This is followed by lymphatic spread and the development of numerous subcutaneous lesions. This 'disseminated form' is marked by multiple, painless cutaneous or subcutaneous nodules, which can form into ulcers or abscesses involving the muscles, joints, bones, eyes, gastrointestinal system, mucous membranes, and nervous system. The 'pulmonary form' results from the inhalation of spores, but produces much the same forms of the disease.

Other forms of subcutaneous mycoses occur mostly in the tropics and subtropics and are caused by several fungi species. These conditions are called chromomycosis (producing wartlike nodules that can ulcerate) and maduromycosis (or mycetoma -- a chronic slowly progressive destructive infection involving several layers of skin, producing abscessing granulomas). Treatment is difficult and often requires surgical removal of the offending tissues.