Thermophilic fungi in the mycoflora of man and environmental air

Walter T. Hughes; Jefferson W. Crosier

doi:10.1007/BF02050857

Thermophilic fungi in the mycoflora of man and environmental air

Walter T. Hughes, Jefferson W. Crosier

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The objective of this study was to determine if thermophilic fungi exist in the mycoflora of man and in the aeroflora of his environment. Humicola lanuginosa and Humicola grisea were isolated from 5 of 55 samples of outside air. Three thousand cultures were taken from the nasal mucosae, skin surfaces and recta of 570 children. Cultures were incubated at 50°C. Thermophilic fungi were isolated from 6 of 287 children receiving immunosuppressive therapy for malignancies and from 1 of 283 normal children. H. lanuginosa was recovered from the skin of one, the rectum of one and the nasal mucosae of three patients. Mucor pusillus was isolated from the nasopharynges of two patients. Further studies are now indicated to determine the pathogenicity of these organisms with respect to tissue invasive disease, antigenicity and metabolite toxicity.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	147-152
Number of pages	6
Journal	Mycopathologia et Mycologia Applicata
Volume	49
Issue number	2-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02050857
State	Published - Mar 1973
Externally published	Yes

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