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ALLERGENICITY
Allergenic (96,163)
MYCOTOXINS PRODUCED
Echinocandin B (349), Nidulotoxin
(3,164),
Penicillin(3,165), Sterigmatocystin
(3,166,234,235,349)
PATHOGENICITY IN HUMANS
Known to cause bone, disseminated infection, abscess (167,168,170), endocarditis
(171), osteomyelitis and pneumonia
(172) in patients with chronic granulomatous disease
(1,2), case of pulmonary
aspergillosis(169), mycetoma
(597), eye infection
(122).
IDENTIFICATION CHARACTERISTICS on POTATO
DEXTROSE AGAR (PDA)
Rapid growth, green, buff, short brown conidiophore (60-130u) , sm vesicle, rough conidia, globose brown cleistothecia producing reddish ascospores surrounded by Hulle cells
(1,2)
FUNGI LIST
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