This contribution, based on a Special Interest Group session held during IMC9, focuses on physiological based models of filamentous fungal colony growth and interactions. Fungi are known to be an important component of ecosystems, in terms of colony dynamics and interactions within and between trophic levels. We outline some of the essential components necessary to develop a fungal ecology: a m...

Mucor belongs to the most prominent order Mucorales, a phylogenetically ancient group of fungi referred as “early divergent fungi”. The genus contains several species. common are amphibiorum, M. circinelloides, hiemalis, indicus, racemosus and ramosissimus. has fast growing colonies is characterized by tall, simple, unbranched sporangiophores without basal rhizoids, non-apophyseal sporangia, pi...

background and objectives: unhygienic poultry feedstuffs can lead to nutrient losses and detrimental effect on poultry production and public health. in the present study, mycobiota and colony-forming units per gram in ingredients and finish poultry feed was evaluated with special reference to potentially mycotoxigenic fungi. materials and methods: eighty five samples of corn, soybean meal and p...

Optimal regimens for the treatment of invasive fungal infections have yet to be defined, and these life-threatening conditions are one of the leading causes of treatment failure in patients with cancer. A substantial body of preclinical work points in the direction of using cytokines as immunomodulators of the multiple deficiencies involved in the progression of fungal infections in neutropenic...

OBJECTIVE To determine if gaseous ozone can effectively kill common environmental fungi. DESIGN This study was designed to test the null hypothesis that there is no significant difference in viability between fungal conidia treated with ozone and fungal conidia not treated with ozone. A single control group design was utilized. SETTING Academic research laboratory. INTERVENTIONS Freshly p...

Mutations in the Aspergillus nidulans fluG gene disrupt the programmed induction of asexual sporulation and result in formation of fluffy colonies that are characterized by undifferentiated cotton-like masses of vegetative cells. We show that the fluG mutant phenotype is suppressed when fluG mutant colonies are grown next to wild-type colonies even if the two strains are separated by dialysis m...

Background & Aims: Nanosilver-based paint is a new technology with antimicrobial and antifungal characteristics. These characteristics were investigated in this study with regard to fungal contamination in hospitals. Method: Regarding hospitalization of transplant patients and their sensitivity to hospital infections, two similar rooms were selected in nephrology ward. One of them was paint...

Hierarchical wurtzite ZnS architectures assembled from nanosheets and nanorods, such as branched flowers and fluffy solid and hollow spheres, have been synthesized by a facile, template-free, low-temperature solution route. The growth of wurtzite ZnS nanostructures at temperatures as low as 4 ◦C without any organic additives has been realized by the slow reaction between Zn(NH3) 2+ 4 and thioac...