Old textiles are important elements of thecultural heritage. As a result their composition mostly natural old extremely prone to physical and chemical degradation due fungal action. The treatments usually applied for the cleaning heritage target use synthetic fungicides, which potentially harmful both human health environment. Numerous studies highlight as an alternative conventional antifungal...

Various food commodities such as groundnuts are prone to fungal contamination in favourable environmental conditions. The purpose of this study was isolate and identify fungi associated with stored groundnuts. A purposeful random sampling employed collect three hundred (300) samples storage for more than six (6) months from local facilities known ‘rumbun’ the agricultural zones (Nasarawa South,...

The recent energy crisis has triggered significant attention on the microbial synthesis of lipids, which comprise the raw material for biodiesel production. Microbial oil accumulation with filamentous fungi has great potential because filamentous fungi can form pellets during cell growth, and these pellets are much easier to harvest from cell broth. This paper focuses on the cell pelletization ...

Enrofloxacin metabolism by Mucor ramannianus was investigated as a model for the biotransformation of veterinary fluoroquinolones. Cultures grown in sucrose-peptone broth were dosed with enrofloxacin. After 21 days, 22% of the enrofloxacin remained. Three metabolites were identified: enrofloxacin N-oxide (62% of the total absorbance), N-acetylciprofloxacin (8.0%), and desethylene-enrofloxacin (...

Mucor and Rhizopus cause life-threatening infections primarily involving the lungs and sinuses, which disseminate very rapidly by necrosis and infarction of the contiguous tissues. We present a case of a 64-year-old African American posttransplant patient who presented with a productive cough and weight loss. He had a past surgical history of renal transplant for renal cell carcinoma and was on...

Plant-microbial interactive relations with respect to determine mycoflora of the Sorbus domestica L.--fruits, crust, leaves and pollen were studied in 2 Slovak regions. On the fruit samples the genera Alternaria, Botrytis, Cladosporium, Mucor and Penicillium occurred, on the leaves the genera Alternaria, Cladosporium and Penicillium prevailed and on crust the genera Alternaria, Cladosporium, Pe...

Preparation of some chloro, bromo and iodo steroids derived from testosterone and epiandrosterone is described. The biotransformation of halogenated products by fungus mucor plumbeus are preformed. Introduction of the halogen atom into the steroids moiety severely affected the biotransformation results. Keyword: Mucor plumbeus, biotransformation, steroids, 3dibromomethylene-5α-androstan-17-one....

Aflatoxin effects on duckling growth and rates of changes in liver, bile, and plasma components during 10&y bioassay periods were deternlined with the WIIO/FAO/ ITNICEF-defined 60% peanntmeal diet. Aflatosin at 1.578 pg/g feed (0.948 1.19 B, and 0.630 ,LL~ G, ( depreised growth 78X, reduced feed conversion efficiency 60X, increased liver size 42%, and rednced bile rihoHavin 94%:. The toxin indu...

This study examined the utilization of potato processing wastewater as the feedstock by two oleaginous fungi, Aspergillus flavus I16-3 and Mucor rouxii, for lipid and gamma linolenic acid production. The high strength wastewater contained soluble carbohydrates of 36.2 g/l, soluble chemical oxygen demand (COD) of 40 g/l, total soluble nitrogen of 0.62 g/l, and soluble total phosphorus of 0.24 g/...