Three polycentric rumen fungi, LL, LC2 and Ruminomyces elegans (C2), isolated from the rumen of cattle were grown in six culture media. LL and LC2 were morphologically similar. Their characteristics resembled those of Orpinomyces and Neocallimastix joyonii, and they grew well and produced sporangia after 3-4 d growth in all the media. R. elegans differed morphologically from LL and LC2, but alt...

We report an unusual case of infection of a breast implant with Trichosporon spp. in an immunocompetent host. There has only been one other reported case in the published literature. The patient was a healthy 27-year-old woman who presented with pain and swelling 17 months after augmentation mammoplasty with a saline implant. Ultrasound-guided aspiration of the effusion surrounding the implant ...

Vaginal swabs were taken from 1498 women attending a family planning clinic. The flora was assessed in the absence of any information about the women to whom the swabs related. Yeasts and fungi were present in 311 women (21%) and were no more prevalent among "pill" users than others. Candida albicans was significantly associated with vulval itching and with a vaginal discharge described as heav...

Hydroquinone is a major benzene metabolite, which is a well-known haematotoxic and carcinogenic agent associated with malignancy in occupational environments. Human exposure to hydroquinone can occur by dietary, occupational, and environmental sources. In the environment, hydroquinone showed increased toxicity for aquatic organisms, being less harmful for bacteria and fungi. Recent pieces of ev...

Biohydrogen is mainly produced by anaerobic bacteria, fungi, and algae under conditions. In higher eukaryotes, it thought that molecular hydrogen (H 2 ) functions as a signaling molecule for physiological processes such stress responses. Here, demonstrated white-rot fungi produce H during wood decay. The fungus Trametes versicolor produces from aerobic conditions, production completely suppress...

Cellulose is a primary structural component of plants and one the most abundant polymers on Earth. Degradation this recalcitrant plant biomass an important process in global carbon cycle can potentially provide feedstock for biofuels. Fungi bacteria are organisms able to breakdown biomass-derived cellulose. Anaerobic bacteria, present cellulose degrading ecosystems, such as compost piles, soils...

BACKGROUND First introduced into clinical microbiology laboratories in Europe, MALDI-TOF MS is being rapidly embraced by laboratories around the globe. Although it has multiple applications, its widespread adoption in clinical microbiology relates to its use as an inexpensive, easy, fast, and accurate method for identification of grown bacteria and fungi based on automated analysis of the mass ...

Abstract. Agustina S, Wiryawan KG, Suharti Meryandini A. 2021. The enrichment process and morphological identification of anaerobic fungi isolated from buffalo rumen. Biodiversitas 23: 469-477. Anaerobic are one the microbes that have an important role in rumen fiber degradation because they can produce cellulase enzymes penetrate feed particles. Nevertheless, few studies were performed to test...

Fungi and other eukaryotes represent one of the last frontiers of microbial diversity in the sponge holobiont. In this study we employed pyrosequencing of 18S ribosomal RNA gene amplicons containing the V7 and V8 hypervariable regions to explore the fungal diversity of seven sponge species from the North Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. For most sponges, fungi were present at a low relative abund...

Fungal activity is a major driver in the global nitrogen cycle, and mounting evidence suggests that fungal denitrification activity contributes significantly to soil emissions of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N(2)O). The metabolic pathway and oxygen requirement for fungal denitrification are different from those for bacterial denitrification. We hypothesized that the soil N(2)O emission fro...