Keratophilic fungi and the prevalence of dermatomycoses in Orissa, India

Roy, Kamalika; Ghosh, G. R.; Dutta, S. K.

doi:10.1080/00362177285190441

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“…were also reported earlier (Roy et al, 1972;Kushawaha and Agarwal, 1976;Jain and Agarwal, 1980;Singh andAgarwal, 1987, 1988). There is evidence to support occurrence of keratinophilic fun- …”

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Aero-biological significance of Keratinophilic fungi in Kanpur

Shukla

Anjum

1991

Aerobiologia

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Aero-biological significance of Keratinophilic fungi in Kanpur

Shukla

Anjum

1991

Aerobiologia

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“…Another species of Gymnascella was G. hyalinospora (3.0%). Both these cultures were reported from soils of Orissa by Roy et al, 32 and from Kerala by Deshmukh. 33 Gymnascella dankaliensis was also reported from caves around Mumbai, India.…”

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Prevalence of keratinophilic fungi in public park soils of Mumbai, India

Deshmukh

Verekar

2012

Microbiol Res (Pavia)

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The parks of Mumbai are frequently visited by local residents every morning and evening. However, there are no reports on the occurrence of keratinophilic fungi in these areas. The purpose of this research was to study the occurrence of keratinophilic fungi in the public parks of Mumbai. One hundred soil samples were collected from five public parks: Kamla Nehru Park, Powai Garden, CD Deshmukh Garden, Five Gardens and Chota Kashmir. Keratinophilic fungi were isolated by the hair baiting technique using human hair as keratin bait. The cultures were identified using macroand micro-morphological features. Identification was also confirmed by the BLAST search of sequences of the ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 rDNA region against the NCBI/Genbank data and compared with deposited sequences. The ability of these fungi to use human hair was also evaluated by release of protein in liquid media. A total of 75 strains of keratinophilic fungi were recovered from 100 (75.0%) soil samples. The isolated fungi were composed of eleven species of eight genera: Arthrographis kalrae, Auxarthron conjugatum, Chrysosporium indicum, C. queenslandicum, C. zonatum, Gymnascella dankaliensis, G. hyalinospora, Microsporum gypseum (15.0%), Myriodontium keratinophilum, Trichophyton mentagrophytes and Uncinocarpus reesii. These fungi can release 148.8-307.6 μg/mL protein in liquid media when grown on human hair in shake flask culture and also decompose 16.2-38.6% of human hair after four weeks of incubation. Our study indicates that keratinophilic fungi are to be found in the soils of various public parks in Mumbai and that human hair can be a source of pathogenic fungi.

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“…Ctenomyces serratus accounts for 9.2% and is reported from various parts of India 1,2,4,7 . Garg, 2 Roy et al ., 3 Deshmukh 12 and Ramesh and Hilda reported C. keratinophilum from various parts of India 14 . Chrysosporium zonatum was reported from a cattle farm soil at Sagar, India, by Jain et al ., 16 as C. gourii .…”

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“…In the recent years many workers have given the distribution of keratinophilic fungi and related dermatophytes in Indian soils 1–7 . Jammu – (32.43 N, 74.54 E) situated at 305 m altitude, with temperature ranges from 23.4 to 43.0 °C in summer and 4.3 to 26.2 °C in winter – is famous for romantic green meadows, majestic mountains, bewitchy lakes, valleys, ancient temples and holy shrines perched atop a hill side.…”

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