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The term opportunistic fungi is vague. Generally, any fungal species is capable of causing infection under favorable conditions. Over one million fungal species exist in nature. Only a few hundred of them have been associated with human and animal infections. Opportunistic fungi refers to those fungi that normally would not cause infections in otherwise healthy people but are able to cause infection under certain circumstances such as immunodefficiency, cancer, organ transplant, neutropenic patients, diabetes, debilitated patients and patients on long term antibiotics.

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Aspergillus species Aspergillus species Aspergillus fumigatus
Aspergillus fumigatus Aspergillus flavus Aspergillus flavus
Aspergillus niger Aspergillus niger Aspergillus terreus
Aspergillus terreus Aspergillus terreus Aspergillus nidulans
Aspergillus nidulans Aspergillus nidulans Aspergillus nidulans
Aspergillus nidulans Aspergillus glaucus Aspergillus glaucus

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