Mycotoxicoses are diseases caused by mycotoxins, i.e. secondary metabolites of moulds. Although they occur more frequently in areas with a hot and humid climate, favourable for the growth of moulds, they can also be found in temperate zones. Exposure to mycotoxins is mostly by ingestion, but also occurs by the dermal and inhalation routes. Mycotoxicoses often remain unrecognized by medical prof...

The increasing occurrence of allergies in the developed countries and greater interest in food safety has drawn attention to the presence of allergens in agro products during storage. Stored agro products can contain allergenic contaminants of plant, microbial, or animal origin. Several stored-product insect and mite species were confirmed as sources of allergens. The most important are storage...

Innovative methods producing transparent and flexible electrodes are highly sought in modern optoelectronic applications to replace metal oxides, but available solutions suffer from drawbacks such as brittleness, unaffordability and inadequate processability. Here we propose a general, simple strategy to produce hierarchical composites of functionalized graphene in polymeric matrices, exhibitin...

INTRODUCTION Fungaemia carries with it high mortality rates and appropriate as well as timely antifungal therapy has been shown to be life saving. MATERIALS AND METHODS We studied the invitro activities of antifungal agents using the Etest method, against 100 Candida isolates from blood cultures, 10 Cryptococcus isolates from blood or cerebrospinal fluid and 50 mould isolates from various cli...

Qualitative and quantitative chemical composition, activity against bacteria, yeasts and moulds and antioxidant activity of two variants (HV400 and HV3200) of hydrolates from dried lavender flowers (Lavandula angustifolia) were determined. The main chemical compounds were linalool (39.2% HV400, 29.0% HV3200), α-terpineol (7.1% HV400, 12.7% HV3200), borneol (4.8% HV400, 9.3% HV3200) and terpinen...

Cocoa beans (Theobroma cacao) are processed into cocoa beverage through fermentation, drying, roasting and grounding of the seed to powder. The mycological quality of 39 samples of different brand of these cocoa – based beverage referred to as ‘eruku oshodi’ collected from 3 different markets in south – west Nigeria was determined by serial dilution using the pour plate method on Potato Dextros...

G.S. Hall (ed.), Interactions of Yeasts, Moulds, and Antifungal Agents: How to Detect Resistance, DOI 10.1007/978-1-59745-134-5_2, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 Abstract Antifungal susceptibility testing has become an important tool for physicians faced with making diffi cult treatment decisions regarding treatment of patients with fungal infections. The Clinical Laboratory and St...

Abstract Thermoforming is one of the oldest technologies for manufacture plastic products. This originates in prehistory, but today, new additive manufacturing can contribute to production moulds, tools, or accessories, which be used other traditional processes. Manufacturing such moulds thermoforming a challenging technical problem due multitude equipment, materials, design, and process constr...

The study investigated the major Causes of inconsistency in cast results aluminium products from metal moulds supplied by then Hungarian Technical Partners to Scientific Equipment Development Institute, Minna. for different scientific Schools Laboratories were achieve mass production these products. alloy A6063 ingot used likewise imported. However, another consignment is produced Nigeria Niger...

Background and Objectives: Onychomycosis, a fungal infection of nails occurs worldwide with dermatophytes as the most common causal agents, although yeasts and moulds are also involved. The diagnosis usually involves direct microscopy and culture to prove actual existence of onychomycosis. This present study aims to provide knowledge of the epidemiology and mycological characteristics of onycho...