Assoc Prof  David Ellis

Mycology Unit
Women's and Children's Hospital
72 King William Road
North Adelaide
Australia 5006

Tel: (61 8) 8161 6459
Fax: (61 8) 8161 7589
Email: dellis@adelaide.edu.au 
Website: www.mycology.adelaide.edu.au

Fields of Interest

Medical, Veterinary, Pathology, Environmental, Quality Assurance, Pharmaceutical, Education, Biosecurity, Diagnostics, Systematics, Classification, Nomenclature

Other Interests

Epidemiology ecology

Microorganisms Cell Cultures

Fungi, Yeast

Other Taxa

Cryptococcus, Candida, Dermatophytes, Aspergillus, Scedosporium, Fusarium, zygomycetes, other human and animal pathogenic fungi

Environments

Terrestrial, Human, Animal

Services

Culture Isolation, Culture Identification, Culture Collection, Culture

Other Services

Antifungal susceptibility testing

Research

The WCH Mycology Unit is recognized by the South Australian Health Department as a State and National Reference Centre for Medical Mycology. It provides an 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, Candidiasis, Histoplasmosis, Farmer's Lung Disease, Pigeon Fancier's Disease, Sporotrichosis, Pseudallescheriasis, 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.