| | Penicillium marneffei -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | (Genus of fungi commonly growing as green or blue molds on decaying food; used in making cheese and as a source of penicillin) Penicillium species are usually regarded as unimportant in terms of causing disease. |
 | | This is the only (additional info and facts about thermally dimorphic) thermally dimorphic Penicillium, and it can cause systemic infection, creating a (Intense nervous anticipation) fever and (A deficiency of red blood cells) anaemia similar to disseminated (A fungal infection characterized by nodular lesions--first in the lungs and spreading to the nervous system) cryptococcosis. |
 | | Discovered in (additional info and facts about bamboo rat) bamboo rats in (A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea; achieved independence from France in 1945) Vietnam, it is still associated with both the rats, and the area. |
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