background and purpose: soil is the main habitat of saprophytic and pathogenic fungi. mucormycetes are one of the most parts of soil fungi and certain members are among opportunistic fungi and can cause systemic fungal infections in immunocompromised patients. the majority of human and animal infections are caused by members of the genera rhizopus, mucor, rhizomucor, lichtheimia (absidia), cunn...

The metabolism of fluorene, a tricyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, by Cunninghamella elegans ATCC 36112 was investigated. Approximately 69% of the [9-14C]fluorene added to cultures was metabolized within 120 h. The major ethyl acetate-soluble metabolites were 9-fluorenone (62%), 9-fluorenol, and 2-hydroxy-9-fluorenone (together, 7.0%). Similarly to bacteria, C. elegans oxidized fluorene at the C-9 p...

Textile effluents are among the most difficult-to-treat wastewaters, due to their considerable amount of recalcitrant and toxic substances. Fungal biosorption is viewed as a valuable additional treatment for removing pollutants from textile wastewaters. In this study the efficiency of Cunninghamella elegans biomass in terms of contaminants, COD and toxicity reduction was tested against textile ...

CRYSTALS OF THE TITLE COMPOUND [SYSTEMATIC NAME: (3R,6R,7S,8aR,9R,12aR)-7-hydr-oxy-3,6,9-trimethyl-octa-hydro-3,12-ep-oxy[1,2]dioxepino[4,3-i]isochromen-10(3H)-one], C(15)H(22)O(6), were obtained from microbial transformation of artemisinin by a culture of Cunninghamella elegans. The stereochemistry of the compound is consistent with the spectroscopic findings in previously published works. A w...

Infection is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among haemodialysis patients. Some of the risk factors specific to this population include repeated access to the blood stream through venous cannulation for dialysis as well as a higher prevalent usage of prosthetic materials like haemodialysis catheters and arteriovenous grafts. In addition, defects in immunity and phagocytosis also cont...

Infections by Cunninghamella bertholletiae are infrequent but particularly severe and have high associated mortality. Gomes et al.1 reported 6 pediatric cases, 4 with pneumonia and 2 with disseminated disease. In said study, hematologic disease was the majority risk factor. Three patients with lung affectation who underwent surgery and antifungal treatment survived. Our case is a 17-year-old pa...