a study conducted to isolation and identification of honey bee diseases fungal agents in iran west azarbaijan province apiaries. we collected 2000 samples (adult honeybee, brood, honey and pollen) of 200 apiaries in three seasons (spring, summer and autumn). samples prepared and cultivated in sda medium. finally, ascosphaera apis, causative agent of chalk brood disease, didn’t isolate of any ap...

The fungal genus Aspergillus was established in 1729, and includes species that are adapted to a wide range of environmental conditions. Many aspergilli produce mycotoxins in foods that may be toxic, mutagenic or carcinogenic in animals. Most of the Aspergillus species are soil fungi or saprophytes but some are capable of causing decay in storage, disease in plants or invasive disease in humans...

With the aim of identifying the fungus microbiota in air conditioners in intensive care units (ICUs) within public and private hospitals in Teresina, Piauí, solid material was collected from ten different ICUs. Thirty-three species of Moniliaceae and Dematiaceae were isolated, which was the first report of these in Piauí. High frequencies of Aspergillus niger Van Tieghem (60%), Aspergillus fumi...

OBJECTIVE To detail a case of Aspergillus terreus brain abscess in a patient undergoing treatment for malignant glioma. Central nervous system aspergillosis usually occurs in patients with hematopoietic neoplasms or post transplantation, not in those with solid tumors. Most systemic invasive mold infections are attributable to Aspergillus fumigatus or Aspergillus flavus. PATIENT AND METHODS T...

Xanthorrhizol was isolated from the rhizome of Curcuma xanthorrhiza (Zingiberaceae) and its in vitro activity against opportunistic filamentous fungi was evaluated using the NCCLS (M38-A) standard method. Xanthorrhizol was found to be active against all the species tested, namely Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus fumigatus, Aspergillus niger, Fusarium oxysporum, Rhizopus oryzae and Trichophyton m...

Amphotericin B therapy continues to be the "gold standard" in the treatment of invasive aspergillosis in the immunocompromised host. Although Aspergillus fumigatus and Aspergillus flavus constitute the major species, several reports have described invasive pulmonary or disseminated disease due to the less common Aspergillus terreus and dismal clinical outcomes with high-dose amphotericin B. We ...

We describe a previously healthy, 22-year-old man who, after a closed fracture of the femur and subsequent operation, developed chronic osteomyelitis. Within a few days, infected bone fragments, bone, and wound drainage repeatedly yielded three different filamentous fungi: Aspergillus fumigatus, Aspergillus flavus, and Chalara ellisii. Histologic examination of the bone revealed septate hyphae....

OBJECTIVE The evaluation of the Sensititre YeastOne and Etest methods for determining susceptibility to amphotericin B and itraconazole by comparing the MICs obtained by these methods at different times of reading with those of the M38-A broth microdilution method. METHODS Sixty-three clinical isolates of Aspergillus spp. (23 Aspergillus flavus, 24 Aspergillus fumigatus, nine Aspergillus nige...

The aim of this present investigation is to isolate, screen and identify hydrocarbon degrading fungi from oil contaminated soil of Modha Para automobiles of Raipur, C.G. During this study, nine pure fungal isolates were obtained through serial dilution of soil in potato dextrose agar. Primary screening tests were done to evaluate the growth diameter of fungal colonies on minimal salt media supp...

background: aspergillus species are associated with allergic bronchopulmonary disease, mycotic keratitis, otomycosis, na­sal sinusitis and invasive infection. in this study, we developed a pcr-single strand confomational polymorphism method to identify the most common aspergillus species and we showed some advantages of this method comparing a pcr-restric­tion fragment length polymorphism with ...