INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION Due to the specific work environment, farmers are exposed to various biological occupational hazard. Among these factors significant are fungi present in the grain and also in the soil. The fungi may be the cause of human diseases including skin infections, asthma, allergic rhinitis and many others. AIM The aim of this study was to quantify and identify species of...

The main characteristic of the pulled corn pickers is that they drawn in one pass separate ear of corn from the stalk and made it husking, while it achieves a different quality of work. Quality of collectors depends on a several factors: the condition of crops, defining of relevant parameters for the operation, technical accuracy and staff skills. When the relevant parameters are not well align...

Monsel’s solution (ferric subsulphate) is an iron salt first described in the literature in 1856 by Leon Monsel (1). Since then it has been widely used by dermatologists as a haemostatic agent in minor surgical procedures, such as tangential excision and punch biopsy (2). Ferric chloride is also a source of ferric ions, which is used in dermatological procedures and is considered more convenien...

Fungal spores are continuously deposited on the leaf surfaces by wind impaction, sedimentation and rain wash-out from the atmosphere and splash-dispersal. They reside and act as asymptomatic mutualists, benign commensals or latent pathogens. A slight imbalance in this relation can lead to pathogenic phase of the fungi, resulting in a variety of symptoms on leaves viz. discoloration, blight, soo...

We conducted gross and microscopic characterizations of lesions in Cnidaria from Palmyra Atoll, Central Pacific. We found growth anomalies (GA) to be the most commonly encountered lesion. Cases of discoloration and tissue loss were rare. GAs had a focal or multi-focal distribution and were predominantly nodular, exophytic, and umbonate. In scleractinians, the majority of GAs manifested as hyper...

Moldy grain may adversely affect cattle production due to nutrition effects, mycoses or mycotoxicoses. Mycosis is a disease state caused by the fungi themselves, and mycotoxicosis is a disease state caused by secondary metabolites of the fungi. Thus, the mold itself may cause production losses separate and apart from any toxin effects. In fact, various molds have been associated with adverse he...

Moldy grain may adversely affect cattle production due to nutrition effects, mycoses or mycotoxicoses. Mycosis is a disease state caused by the fungi themselves, and mycotoxicosis is a disease state caused by secondary metabolites of the fungi. Thus, the mold itself may cause production losses separate and apart from any toxin effects. In fact, various molds have been associated with adverse he...