Bola fúngica por Aspergillus fumigatus no pulmão nativo após transplante unilateral de pulmão A 49-year-old woman underwent right lung transplantation due to pulmonary emphysema, with favorable evolution in the early postoperative period. A year later she was readmitted to our department with productive cough. During that admission, the patient was treated for cytomegalovirus pneumonia and rece...

The biosorption of chromium (VI) on eighteen different natural biosorbents: Natural sediment, chitosan, chitin, Aspergillus flavus I-V, Aspergillus fumigatus I-ll, Helmintosporium sp, Cladosporium sp, Mucor rouxii mutant, M. rouxii IM-80, Mucor sp-I and 2, Candida albicans and Cryptococcus neoformans was studied in this work. It was found that the biomass of C. neoformans, natural sediment, Hel...

Materials Unless otherwise stated, FAD-dependent glucose dehydrogenase (E.C.: 1.1.99.10, Aspergillus sp., GLDE-70-1192) was purchased from Sekisui Diagnostics (UK) and used without any further purification. For comparison experiments, GDH was also purchased from Amano Enzyme Inc., Japan (“Amano 8”, Aspergillus oryzae) and BBI Solutions USA (GLD1, Aspergillus oryzae). Bilirubin oxidase (Myrothec...

Antimicrobial activity of methanolic, chloroform, hexane and aqueous stem extracts of Erythrina variegata L. were analyzed against nine bacterial pathogens such as Salmonella typhi, Pseudomonas putida, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella sp., Proteus sp., Serratia marcescens, Bacillus circulans, Staphyloccus aureus and five fungal pathogens viz. Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus f...

The authors characterized the genera of mycelial fungi found in samples of expressed human milk received through home collection by the Human Milk Bank of the Instituto Fernandes Figueira in Rio de Janeiro. A total of 821 samples of expressed human milk were taken randomly from bottles collected at home by the milk donors themselves and were investigated for molds, yeasts, and mesophilic microo...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Given the importance of rapid diagnosis for fungal rhinosinusitis, this study aimed to evaluate the use of nested PCR to identify Aspergillus and Mucor species in clinical samples from patients with suspected fungal rhinosinusitis. METHODS Functional endoscopic sinus surgery specimens were collected from 98 patients with rhinosinusitis from 2012 to 2013. All samples w...

This study focused on the evaluation of cellulolytic and hemicellulolytic fungi isolated from sawdust compost (SDC) and coffee residue compost (CRC). To identify fungal isolates, the ITS region of fungal rRNA was amplified and sequenced. To evaluate enzyme production, isolates were inoculated onto wheat bran agar plates, and enzymes were extracted and tested for cellulase, xylanase, β-glucanase...

__________________________________________________________________________ Introduction: People spend about 90% of their time indoors. Most health problems associated with indoor air quality are caused by fungi. It is estimated fungi account for 70% of total indoor air microbial pollution. Purpose: To analyze fungal pathogens isolated from indoor air of Branicki Palace in Białystok, Poland Mate...

Fungal species of the genus Aspergillus play significant roles as model organisms in basic research, as "cell factories" for the production of organic acids, pharmaceuticals or industrially important enzymes and as pathogens causing superficial and invasive infections in animals and humans. The release of the genome sequences of several Aspergillus sp. has paved the way for global analyses of p...