Dermatophytes ( name based on the Greek for ' skin plants ') are a common label for a group of three types of fungus that commonly causes skin disease in animals and humans.

Dermatophytes are transmitted by direct contact

Dermatophytes are classified as anthropophilic ( humans ), zoophilic ( animals ) or geophilic ( soil ) according to their normal habitat.

Dermatophytes of the genera Trichophyton and Microsporum are the most common causative agents.

Dermatophytes cause infections of the skin, hair and nails due to their ability to obtain nutrients from keratinized material.

Dermatophytes usually do not invade living tissues, but colonize the outer layer of the skin.

Dermatophytes ( fungal organisms such as Malassezia or Trichophyton ) can also contribute, as can chorioptic mange mites.

Whereas a biotic stress would include such living disturbances as fungi or harmful insects, abiotic stress factors, or stressors, are naturally occurring, often intangible, factors such as intense sunlight or wind that may cause harm to the plants and animals in the area affected.

Alkaloids are produced by a large variety of organisms, including bacteria, fungi, plants, and animals, and are part of the group of natural products ( also called secondary metabolites ).

However, attention is still given to these groups by botanists, and fungi ( including lichens ), and photosynthetic protists are usually covered in introductory botany courses.

Mushrooms and the yeast used in baking are kinds of fungi.

Cyanides are produced by certain bacteria, fungi, and algae and are found in a number of plants.

Cell walls are found in plants, bacteria, fungi, algae, and some archaea.

There are several groups of organisms that may be called " fungi ".

The group Oomycetes, also known as water molds, are saprotrophic plant pathogens like fungi.

The dictyostelids are another group formerly classified among the fungi.

Bacterial cell walls are different from the cell walls of plants and fungi which are made of cellulose and chitin, respectively.

Similarly, fungi that capture microscopic animals are often called carnivorous fungi.

Outside the animal kingdom, there are several genera containing carnivorous plants and several phyla containing carnivorous fungi.

They consume many different kinds of fungi, including those involved in symbiotic mycorrhizal associations with trees, and are an important vector for dispersal of the spores of subterranean sporocarps ( truffles ) which have co-evolved with these and other mycophagous mammals and thus lost the ability to disperse their spores through the air.

Some are non-specialist detritus feeders, breaking down animal and plant debris ; some feed on particular kinds of carrion such as flesh or hide ; some feed on wastes such as dung ; some feed on fungi, some on particular species of plants, others on a wide range of plants.

Commonly, this term is used to refer specifically to infectious diseases, which are clinically evident diseases that result from the presence of pathogenic microbial agents, including viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, multicellular organisms, and aberrant proteins known as prions.

The micro-organisms that cause these diseases are known as pathogens and include varieties of bacteria, viruses, protozoa and fungi.

The majority of natural dyes are from plant sources – roots, berries, bark, leaves, and wood, fungi, and lichens.

The sea is called " dead " because its high salinity prevents macroscopic aquatic organisms, such as fish and aquatic plants, from living in it, though minuscule quantities of bacteria and microbial fungi are present.

The plants are susceptible to fungi in the root area, so organic enrichers such as compost and manure should be avoided.

Indeed, the symbiosis with root fungi is quite common among the order representatives, and there are even three kinds of it which can be found exclusively among Ericales ( namely, ericoid, arbutoid and monotropoid mycorrhiza ).

Organisms which feed on microbes ( bacteria and fungi ) are termed microbivores.

Really, you are most indiscreet to drive him here yourself '', he said, frowning with displeasure.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

Now we must become vague, for we are approaching one of the nation's most guarded secrets.

These things are important to almost all Persians and perhaps most important to the most ordinary.

The men crying love poems in an orchard on any summer's night are as often as not the lutihaw, mustachioed toughs who spend most of their lives in and out of the local prisons, brothels, and teahouses.

The most effective political inventions seem to make maximum use of natural harbors and are aware that restraining breakwaters can play only a minor part in the whole scheme.

The most primitive feelings are rudimentary value feelings, both positive and negative: a desire to appropriate this or that part of the environment into oneself ; ;

Our most elemental and unavoidable impressions, he says, are those of being involved in a large arena of powers which have a longer past than our own, which are interrelated in a vast movement through the present toward the future.

they are the most valuable of commodities -- and the most salable, for their demand far exceeds supply.

True, ideas are important, perhaps life's most precious treasures.

Its ontological status is itself most tenuous because apart from individual men, who are its `` matter '', tradition, the `` form '' of society exists only as a shared perception of truth.

The ingredients of Faulkner's novels and stories are by no means new with him, and most of the problems he takes up have had the attention of authors before him.

nor is there need to add that among them are some of the most highly individualized and most successful of his characters.

The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

By the same test predispositions destructive of human personality exercise their most sinister impact, with the result that men of good will are often trapped and nullified.

I assume that the number of readers of this anthology who regard themselves as morally perfect is small, and that most readers are willing to consider procedures by which they may gain more insight into themselves and better understanding of others.

This understanding, of course, may in its turn take many forms and some of these -- especially those most interesting to the student of comparative literature -- are essentially historical.

In this essay, we are, along with most historians, interested in the more general or more inclusive ideas, that are so to speak `` writ large '' in history of literature where they recur continually.