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School of Molecular & Biomedical Science
THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE
AUSTRALIA 5005

Contact:
Dr David Ellis

Email

Telephone:
+61 8 8161 6459
Facsimile:
+61 8 8161 7589

Mycology Unit, SA Pathology, Women's and Children's Hospital

The Mycology Unit is recognized as a State and National Reference Centre for Medical Mycology.

The Mycology Unit provides a definative identification service on fungi and yeasts isolated from medical and veterinary clinical specimens. It also performs antifungal drug sensitivity tests on fungi and yeasts, and a number of serological tests for the subcutaneous and systemic fungal infections and allergic lung disease caused by fungi. For example, Cryptococcosis, Aspergillosis, Histoplasmosis, Farmer's Lung Disease, Pigeon Fancier's Disease, Blastomycosis and Coccidioidomycosis.

The Mycology unit is also actively involved in the teaching of medical mycology to undergraduate medical students, post-graduate medical students undergoing specialist training in dermatology, technologists and science graduates. The unit also hosts a regular national course in medical mycology. Mycology Online is an extension of the reference and teaching activities of the Unit.

Other functions include (a) the provision of the medical mycology component of the Quality Assurance Programme organized by the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia which currently reaches over 150 laboratories situated in Australasia, South East Asia and Oceania; and (b) the maintenance of a reference collection of medically important.

Research Interests

The Mycology Unit has current research interests in the following areas:

The Australian Candidemia study.

Antifungal susceptibility testing.

Ecological and epidemiological studies on Cryptococcus neoformans, Scedosporium, Aspergillus and the dermatophytes.

Staff

David Ellis BSc Hons, MSc, PhD, FASM, FRCPA (Hon).
Head, Mycology Unit, SA Pathology, Women's and Children's Hospital
Associate Professor, School of Molecular & Biomedical Sciences, University of Adelaide

Stephen Davis BSc, MASM
Senior Medical Scientist, Mycology Unit, SA Pathology, Women's and Children's Hospital

Helen Alexiou BSc, MASM
Medical Scientist, Mycology Unit, SA Pathology, Women's and Children's Hospital

Rosie Handke ASDMLS
Senior Technical Officer, Mycology Unit, SA Pathology, Women's and Children's Hospital

Contact details

Mycology Unit
SA Pathology
Women's and Children's Hospital
North Adelaide SA 5006

Tel: +61 8 8161 7365
Fax: +61 8 8161 7589
Email: dellis@adelaide.edu.au