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[Occurrence of fungal pathogens in the delivery rooms of a hospital obstetrics department]Katarzyna Krajewska
Pracownia Mikologiczna, , AM w Bialystoku
Ginekol Pol 75:451-6. 2004..non-Candida albicans, Penicillium species, Cladosporium species and Aspergillus species. CONCLUSIONS: 1...
Evaluating fungal populations by genera/species on wide body commercial passenger aircraft and in airport terminalsLauralynn Taylor McKernan
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
Ann Occup Hyg 51:281-91. 2007..A frequency analysis of the fungal data indicated that Cladosporium, Aspergillus and Penicillium were predominant genera in the culturable samples whereas Cladosporium, ..
Antifungal activity of essential oils against filamentous fungi determined by broth microdilution and vapour contact methodsV Tullio
Department of Public Health and Microbiology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
J Appl Microbiol 102:1544-50. 2007..The in vitro activity of some essential oils (EO) (thyme red, fennel, clove, pine, sage, lemon balm and lavender) against clinical and environmental fungal strains was determined...
The Cladosporium fulvum virulence protein Avr2 inhibits host proteases required for basal defenseH Peter van Esse
Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, 6709 PD Wageningen, The Netherlands
Plant Cell 20:1948-63. 2008b>Cladosporium fulvum (syn. Passalora fulva) is a biotrophic fungal pathogen that causes leaf mold of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)...
The chitin-binding Cladosporium fulvum effector protein Avr4 is a virulence factorH Peter van Esse
Laboratory of Phytopathology, Centre for BioSystems Genomics CBSG, Wageningen University, Binnenhaven 5, 6709 PD Wageningen, The Netherlands
Mol Plant Microbe Interact 20:1092-101. 2007The biotrophic fungal pathogen Cladosporium fulvum (syn. Passalora fulva) is the causal agent of tomato leaf mold. The Avr4 protein belongs to a set of effectors that is secreted by C...
Cladosporium Avr2 inhibits tomato Rcr3 protease required for Cf-2-dependent disease resistanceHenrietta C E Rooney
Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
Science 308:1783-6. 2005..During infection, Cladosporium fulvum secretes Avr2 protein into the apoplast of tomato leaves and, in the presence of the extracellular ..
Allelic variation in the effector genes of the tomato pathogen Cladosporium fulvum reveals different modes of adaptive evolutionIoannis Stergiopoulos
Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Binnenhaven 5, 6709 PD Wageningen, The Netherlands
Mol Plant Microbe Interact 20:1271-83. 2007..variation in four avirulence (Avr) and four extracellular protein (Ecp)-encoding genes of the tomato pathogen Cladosporium fulvum was analyzed for a worldwide collection of strains...
K+ channels of Cf-9 transgenic tobacco guard cells as targets for Cladosporium fulvum Avr9 elicitor-dependent signal transductionM R Blatt
Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Wye College, University of London, Wye, Kent, UK
Plant J 19:453-62. 1999..The protein confers resistance in tomato to races of the fungus Cladosporium fulvum expressing the corresponding avirulence gene Avr9...
Vacuolar serine protease is a major allergen of Cladosporium cladosporioidesHong Chou
Department of Medical Research and Education, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
Int Arch Allergy Immunol 146:277-86. 2008b>Cladosporium is an important allergenic fungus worldwide. We report here a major allergen of C. cladosporioides.
Cladosporium fulvum overcomes Cf-2-mediated resistance by producing truncated AVR2 elicitor proteinsRianne Luderer
Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Mol Microbiol 45:875-84. 2002The Cf-2 gene of tomato confers resistance to strains of the biotrophic pathogenic fungus Cladosporium fulvum carrying avirulence gene Avr2...
Quantitative phosphoproteomics of tomato mounting a hypersensitive response reveals a swift suppression of photosynthetic activity and a differential role for hsp90 isoformsIris J E Stulemeijer
Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, 6709 PD Wageningen, The Netherlands
J Proteome Res 8:1168-82. 2009..of phosphorylation cascades, when challenged with the Avr4 elicitor secreted by the pathogenic fungus Cladosporium fulvum...
Binding of the AVR4 elicitor of Cladosporium fulvum to chitotriose units is facilitated by positive allosteric protein-protein interactions: the chitin-binding site of AVR4 represents a novel binding site on the folding scaffold shared between the inverteHarrold A van den Burg
Laboratorie of Biochemistry, Wageningen University, NL-6703 HA Wageningen, The Netherlands
J Biol Chem 279:16786-96. 2004..Current data confirm that the race-specific elicitor AVR4 of the tomato pathogen Cladosporium fulvum can protect fungi against plant chitinases, which is based on the presence of a novel type of ChBD in ..
Apple contains receptor-like genes homologous to the Cladosporium fulvum resistance gene family of tomato with a cluster of genes cosegregating with Vf apple scab resistanceB A Vinatzer
Dipartimento di Colture Arboree, University of Bologna, Italy
Mol Plant Microbe Interact 14:508-15. 2001..We report the identification of a cluster of receptor-like genes with homology to the Cladosporium fulvum (Cf) resistance gene family of tomato on bacterial artificial chromosome clones derived from the Vf scab ..
Tomato mitogen-activated protein kinases LeMPK1, LeMPK2, and LeMPK3 are activated during the Cf-4/Avr4-induced hypersensitive response and have distinct phosphorylation specificitiesIris J E Stulemeijer
Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Plant Physiol 144:1481-94. 2007Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) plants with the Cf-4 resistance gene recognize strains of the pathogenic fungus Cladosporium fulvum that secrete the avirulence protein Avr4...
From Guard to Decoy: a new model for perception of plant pathogen effectorsRenier A L van der Hoorn
Plant Chemetics Lab, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, 50829 Cologne, Germany
Plant Cell 20:2009-17. 2008..We discuss the differences between the Guard and Decoy Models and their variants, hypothesize how decoys might have evolved, and suggest ways to challenge the Decoy Model...
Recognitional specificity and evolution in the tomato-Cladosporium fulvum pathosystemB B H Wulff
Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes IBMP CNRS, 12 rue du Général Zimmer, 67084 Strasbourg, France
Mol Plant Microbe Interact 22:1191-202. 2009..In the tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum syn. Solanum lycopersicum)-Cladosporium fulvum (leaf mold fungus syn...
Hourly predictive artificial neural network and multivariate regression tree models of Alternaria and Cladosporium spore concentrations in Szczecin (Poland)Agnieszka Grinn-Gofron
Department of Plant Taxonomy and Phytogeography, University of Szczecin, Waska 13, 71 415 Szczecin, Poland
Int J Biometeorol 53:555-62. 2009..The spores analysed belonged to the taxa Alternaria and Cladosporium. These spores were selected both for their allergenic capacity and for their high level presence in the ..
No evidence for binding between resistance gene product Cf-9 of tomato and avirulence gene product AVR9 of Cladosporium fulvumR Luderer
Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Mol Plant Microbe Interact 14:867-76. 2001..studies between the R gene product Cf-9 of tomato and the Avr gene product AVR9 of the pathogenic fungus Cladosporium fulvum...
Benzoic acid derivatives from Piper species and their fungitoxic activity against Cladosporium cladosporioides and C. sphaerospermumJoao Henrique G Lago
Instituto de Quimica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, C P 26077 05599 970, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
J Nat Prod 67:1783-8. 2004..The antifungal activity of these compounds was evaluated by bioautographic TLC assay against Cladosporium cladosporioides and C. sphaerospermum.
An endophytic taxol-producing fungus from Taxus media, Cladosporium cladosporioides MD2Peng Zhang
Institute of Resource Biology and Biotechnology, Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Curr Microbiol 59:227-32. 2009..Strain MD2 was identified as Cladosporium cladosporioides according to morphology of the fungal culture, characteristics of the spores, and analysis of ..
Edible dates (Phoenix dactylifera), a potential source of Cladosporium cladosporioides and Sporobolomyces roseus: implications for public healthJohn E Moore
Department of Bacteriology, Belfast City Hospital, Northern Ireland
Mycopathologia 154:25-8. 2002..8S-28S rRNA ITS region. Sequence analysis identified these to be Cladosporium cladosporioides (230 cfu/g) and Sporobolomyces roseus...
Silencing of six hydrophobins in Cladosporium fulvum: complexities of simultaneously targeting multiple genesHelene Lacroix
Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
Appl Environ Microbiol 75:542-6. 2009..and expressed inverted repeat chimeras from the first exons of the six known hydrophobins of the fungus Cladosporium fulvum, the causal agent of tomato leaf mold...
Localization of Cladosporium fulvum hydrophobins reveals a role for HCf-6 in adhesionHelene Lacroix
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London, London, UK
FEMS Microbiol Lett 286:136-44. 2008..The tomato pathogen Cladosporium fulvum has six hydrophobin genes, HCf-1 to -6...
The hydrophobin HCf-1 of Cladosporium fulvum is required for efficient water-mediated dispersal of conidiaJ R Whiteford
Department of Biology, Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Fungal Genet Biol 32:159-68. 2001Six hydrophobin genes (HCf-1 to -6) have thus far been identified in the tomato pathogen Cladosporium fulvum. HCf-1 to -4 are Class I hydrophobins and HCf-5 and -6 are Class II hydrophobins...
High humidity represses Cf-4/Avr4- and Cf-9/Avr9-dependent hypersensitive cell death and defense gene expressionChangchun Wang
Institute of Biotechnology and Department of Plant Protection, Zhejiang University, 258 Kai Xuan Road, Hangzhou, 310029, People's Republic of China
Planta 222:947-56. 2005..The pathosystem of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) and its leaf mold fungal pathogen Cladosporium fulvum is a model system to study gene-for-gene resistance...
Attenuation of Cf-mediated defense responses at elevated temperatures correlates with a decrease in elicitor-binding sitesCamiel F de Jong
Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Mol Plant Microbe Interact 15:1040-9. 2002The interaction between the fungal pathogen Cladosporium fulvum and its only host, tomato, is a well-described gene-for-gene system and several resistance (Cf) genes of tomato and matching fungal avirulence (Avr) genes have been ..
An NB-LRR protein required for HR signalling mediated by both extra- and intracellular resistance proteinsSuzan H E J Gabriëls
Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, Binnenhaven 5, 6709 PD Wageningen, The Netherlands
Plant J 50:14-28. 2007..resistance genes confer hypersensitive response (HR)-associated resistance to strains of the pathogenic fungus Cladosporium fulvum that express the matching avirulence (Avr) gene...
Cladosporium fulvum circumvents the second functional resistance gene homologue at the Cf-4 locus (Hcr9-4E ) by secretion of a stable avr4E isoformNienke Westerink
Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, Binnenhaven 5, 6709PD Wageningen, The Netherlands
Mol Microbiol 54:533-45. 2004..MM-Cf0) has resulted in the near-isogenic line MM-Cf4 that confers resistance to the fungal tomato pathogen Cladosporium fulvum. At the Cf-4 locus, five homologues of Cladosporium resistance gene Cf-9 (Hcr9s) are present...
The nitrogen content of the tomato leaf apoplast increases during infection by Cladosporium fulvumP S Solomon
Department of Physiology, Carlsberg Laboratory, Copenhagen Valby, Denmark
Planta 213:241-9. 2001..of phyto-pathogenic fungi growing in planta, the environment for the intercellular biotrophic pathogen, Cladosporium fulvum Cooke, of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) was analysed...
Isolation and characterisation of five different hydrophobin-encoding cDNAs from the fungal tomato pathogen Cladosporium fulvumG C Segers
Carlsberg Laboratory, Department of Physiology, Copenhagen Valby, Denmark
Mol Gen Genet 261:644-52. 1999Five different hydrophobin-encoding cDNA clones from Cladosporium fulvum were isolated from cDNA libraries, made from nutrient-depleted mycelium. One cDNA clone was identical to the previously isolated hydrophobin HCf-1...
Molecular interactions between tomato and the leaf mold pathogen Cladosporium fulvumSusana Rivas
Laboratoire des Interactions Plantes Microorganismes, UMR CNRS INRA 2594, BP 52627, 31326 Castanet Tolosan Cedex, France
Annu Rev Phytopathol 43:395-436. 2005The interaction between tomato and the leaf mold pathogen Cladosporium fulvum is controlled in a gene-for-gene manner...
Disulfide bond structure of the AVR9 elicitor of the fungal tomato pathogen Cladosporium fulvum: evidence for a cystine knotH W Van den Hooven
Laboratory of Biochemistry, Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Wageningen University, Dreijenlaan 3, 6703 HA Wageningen, The Netherlands
Biochemistry 40:3458-66. 2001..The AVR9 elicitor from the fungus Cladosporium fulvum induces defense responses in tomato plants carrying the Cf-9 resistance gene...
Four or more species of Cladosporium sympatrically colonize Phragmites australisStefan G R Wirsel
, Fachbereich Biologie, , , Konstanz, 78457, Germany
Fungal Genet Biol 35:99-113. 2002A collection of Cladosporium has been recovered from common reed growing at Lake Constance (Germany). High-resolution cryo-scanning electron microscopy revealed that Cladosporium isolates from reed are diverse...
Natural disulfide bond-disrupted mutants of AVR4 of the tomato pathogen Cladosporium fulvum are sensitive to proteolysis, circumvent Cf-4-mediated resistance, but retain their chitin binding abilityHarrold A van den Burg
Laboratory of Biochemistry, Wageningen University, Dreijenlaan 3, 6703 HA Wageningen, The Netherlands
J Biol Chem 278:27340-6. 2003The extracellular AVR4 elicitor of the pathogenic fungus Cladosporium fulvum induces defense responses in the tomato genotype Cf-4...
Biodegradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) by Cladosporium sphaerospermum isolated from an aged PAH contaminated soilOlivier Potin
, 50 rue Ferdinand Buisson, BP 699, , France
FEMS Microbiol Ecol 51:71-8. 2004The ability of a Deuteromycete fungus, Cladosporium sphaerospermum, previously isolated from soil of an aged gas manufacturing plant, to degrade polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons was investigated...
Alcohol oxidase is a novel pathogenicity factor for Cladosporium fulvum, but aldehyde dehydrogenase is dispensableG Segers
Department of Physiology, Carlsberg Laboratory, Copenhagen Valby, Denmark
Mol Plant Microbe Interact 14:367-77. 2001..These results identify alcohol oxidase as a novel pathogenicity factor and are discussed in relation to peroxisomal metabolism of fungal pathogens during growth in planta...
The vacuolar serine protease, a cross-reactive allergen from Cladosporium herbarumVerena Pöll
Dept of Cell Biology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Mol Immunol 46:1360-73. 2009..a common phenomenon within fungal species we wanted to know whether this protein also represents an allergen in Cladosporium herbarum. Hence, a screening of a C...
Detection and quantification of Cladosporium in aerosols by real-time PCRQing-Yin Zeng
National Institute for Working Life, SE-90713, Ume, Sweden
J Environ Monit 8:153-60. 2006b>Cladosporium is one of the most common airborne molds found in indoor and outdoor environments...
Metulocladosporiella gen. nov. for the causal organism of Cladosporium speckle disease of bananaPedro W Crous
Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Mycol Res 110:264-75. 2006b>Cladosporium musae, a widespread leaf-spotting hyphomycete on Musa spp., is genetically and morphologically distinct from Cladosporium s. str. (Davidiella anamorphs, Mycosphaerellaceae, Dothideales)...
[Destruction of radioactive particles by strains of Cladosporium cladosporoides (FRES.) de Vries]N N Zhdanova
Institute of Microbiology and Virology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 154 Zabolotny St, Kyiv, 03143, Ukraine
Mikrobiol Z 64:47-56. 2002Reactions on the ionizing radiation of 14 Cladosporium cladosporioides strains were studied. Only 5 of them displayed radiotropizm. The ability of C. cladosporioides strains 4 and 5 with positive radiotropizm and museum C...
Purification and characterization of a new enzyme, N-alkylglycine oxidase from Cladosporium sp. G-10K Gomi
Research and Development Division, Kikkoman Corporation, Chiba, Japan
Biochim Biophys Acta 1429:439-45. 1999A new enzyme, N-alkylglycine oxidase, was isolated from a soil mold, Cladosporium sp. G-10...
Affinity-tags are removed from Cladosporium fulvum effector proteins expressed in the tomato leaf apoplastH Peter van Esse
Laboratory of Phytopathology, Centre for Biosystems Genomics (CBSG, Wageningen University, Binnenhaven 5, 6709 PD Wageningen, The Netherlands
J Exp Bot 57:599-608. 2006b>Cladosporium fulvum (syn. Passalora fulva) is a biotrophic fungal pathogen that causes leaf mould on tomato (Solanum esculentum)...
Molecular characterization of four chitinase cDNAs obtained from Cladosporium fulvum-infected tomatoN Danhash
Agricultural University, Department of Phytopathology, Wageningen, Netherlands
Plant Mol Biol 22:1017-29. 1993Complementary DNA clones encoding acidic and basic isoforms of tomato chitinases were isolated from Cladosporium fulvum-infected leaves...
The race-specific elicitor AVR9 of the tomato pathogen Cladosporium fulvum: a cystine knot protein. Sequence-specific 1H NMR assignments, secondary structure and global fold of the proteinJ Vervoort
Department of Biochemistry, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands
FEBS Lett 404:153-8. 1997The secondary structure and global fold of the AVR9 elicitor protein of Cladosporium fulvum has been determined by 2D NMR and distance-geometry protocols...
New macrolides and furan carboxylic acid derivative from the sponge-derived fungus Cladosporium herbarumR Jadulco
, , , , Germany
J Nat Prod 64:527-30. 2001Bioassay-guided fractionation of organic extracts of Cladosporium herbarum, isolated from the marine sponge Callyspongia aerizusa, yielded two new macrolide metabolites: pandangolide 3 and 4 (1 and 2) and the known fungal metabolites ..
Case report. Isolation of Cladosporium cladosporioides from cerebrospinal fluidA S Kantarcioglu
Department of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, and Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures CBS, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Mycoses 45:500-3. 2002b>Cladosporium cladosporioides was isolated from three subsequent cerebrospinal fluid specimens and from a brain biopsy specimen of a human patient. Susceptibility testing of the isolate was performed against seven antifungal agents.
Cladosporium fulvum Avr4 protects fungal cell walls against hydrolysis by plant chitinases accumulating during infectionHarrold A van den Burg
Laboratory of Biochemistry, Wageningen University, Dreijenlaan 3, NL-6703 HA Wageningen, The Netherlands
Mol Plant Microbe Interact 19:1420-30. 2006Resistance against the leaf mold fungus Cladosporium fulvum is mediated by the tomato Cf proteins which belong to the class of receptor-like proteins and indirectly recognize extracellular avirulence proteins (Avrs) of the fungus...
The novel Cladosporium fulvum lysin motif effector Ecp6 is a virulence factor with orthologues in other fungal speciesMelvin D Bolton
Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, Binnenhaven 5, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Mol Microbiol 69:119-36. 2008During tomato leaf colonization, the biotrophic fungus Cladosporium fulvum secretes several effector proteins into the apoplast...
Identification and Ds-tagged isolation of a new gene at the Cf-4 locus of tomato involved in disease resistance to Cladosporium fulvum race 5F L Takken
Department of Genetics, BioCentrum Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Plant J 14:401-11. 1998Leaf mould disease in tomato is caused by the biotrophic fungus Cladosporium fulvum. An Ac/Ds targeted transposon tagging strategy was used to isolate the gene conferring resistance to race 5 of C...
Variation assessment of airborne Alternaria and Cladosporium spores at different bioclimatical conditionsF Javier Rodríguez-Rajo
Department of Plant Biology and Soil Sciences, University of Vigo, Campus As Lagoas, Polytechnic Building, E 32004 Ourense, Spain
Mycol Res 109:497-507. 2005..In this way monitoring of Cladosporium cladosporioides, C. herbarum and Alternaria spp...
The allergens of Cladosporium herbarum and Alternaria alternataMichael Breitenbach
Department of Genetics and General Biology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Chem Immunol 81:48-72. 2002
Differential accumulation of mRNAs encoding extracellular and intracellular PR proteins in tomato induced by virulent and avirulent races of Cladosporium fulvumJ A van Kan
Agricultural University, Department of Phytopathology, Wageningen, Netherlands
Plant Mol Biol 20:513-27. 1992Tomato leaves infected by the fungal pathogen Cladosporium fulvum contain several types of intracellular and extracellular pathogenesis-related (PR) proteins...
Toluene monooxygenase from the fungus Cladosporium sphaerospermumDion M A M Luykx
Division of Industrial Microbiology, Wageningen University, PO Box 8129, 6700 EV Wageningen, The Netherlands
Biochem Biophys Res Commun 312:373-9. 2003Assimilation of toluene by Cladosporium sphaerospermum is initially catalyzed by toluene monooxygenase (TOMO). TOMO activity was induced by adding toluene to a glucose-pregrown culture of C. sphaerospermum...
Monitoring of Alternaria Ness and Cladosporium Link airborne spores in Lublin (Poland) in 2002Aleksandra Konopińska
Department of Botany, Agricultural University of Lublin, Akademicka 15, 20 950 Lublin, Poland
Ann Agric Environ Med 11:347-9. 2004The concentration of Alternaria and Cladosporium spores was monitored throughout the year 2002 in Lublin (Eastern Poland). Fungal spores were sampled with Lanzoni VPPS 2000 volumetric spore trap...
Molecular cloning of major and minor allergens of Alternaria alternata and Cladosporium herbarumG Achatz
Institute of Genetics and General Biology, University of Salzburg, Austria
Mol Immunol 32:213-27. 1995The two moulds, Alternaria alternata and Cladosporium herbarum, are recognized as major causes of fungal allergies...
[Nasal fungal microbiota in allergic and healthy subjects]Maite Sellart Altisent
Unitat de Recerca en Malalties Infeccioses i Micologia, UDIMAS, Facultad de Medicina, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Rev Iberoam Micol 24:125-30. 2007..8% of allergy patients (p = 0.011). Morphologically, 50.4% of the isolates were located within 4 genera: Cladosporium, Penicillium, Aspergillus and Alternaria, fungi which are considered the most allergenic...
Toxic mold and mycotoxins in neurotoxicity cases: Stachybotrys, Fusarium, Trichoderma, Aspergillus, Penicillium, Cladosporium, Alternaria, TrichothecenesPaul R Lees-Haley
Psychol Rep 93:561-84. 2003..Nonetheless, in the context of litigation, speculative opinions are rendered in lieu of scientifically well-founded conclusions. Resources for recognizing and coping with pseudoscientific arguments are suggested...
Survival of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) eggs in surface and subterranean breeding sites during the northern Queensland dry seasonB M Russell
Queensland Institute of Medical Research and University of Queensland Tropical Health Program, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Australia
J Med Entomol 38:441-5. 2001..The high mortality rate of Ae. aegypti eggs during the dry season suggests that this survival strategy is unlikely to contribute to rapid and successful recolonization of surface sites at the end of the wet season...
Fungal growth inhibitory properties of new phytosphingolipid analoguesD Mormeneo
Facultat de Farmacia, Universitat de Barcelona, Unitat de Química Farmacèutica, Barcelona, Spain
J Appl Microbiol 104:1075-81. 2008..To study the growth inhibitory properties of a series of phytosphingosine (PHS) and phytoceramide (PHC) analogues...
Relationship between, lifestyle, mold and sick building syndromes in newly built dwellings in JapanK Nakayama
Department of Social and Environmental Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan
Int J Immunopathol Pharmacol 20:35-43. 2007..10 (W) for working hours in females. The ORs for total molds were 2.90 and 2.90 (W): 2.25 (W) for Cladosporium cladosporioides, 3.60 and 7.69 (W) for Penicillium sp. in females, and 4.08 and 8...
Fungal spoilage of bottled mineral waterDaniel Cabral
, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, Argentina
Int J Food Microbiol 72:73-6. 2002..glabrum, other Penicillium species, Cladosporium cladosporioides and Alternaria alternata...
Airborne viable fungi in Riyadh and allergenic response of their extractsA S A-Suwaini
Department of Biological and Medical Research, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Mycoses 44:401-6. 2001..Protein nitrogen contents were estimated and found to range from 0.9 mg ml(-1) for Cladosporium to 2.1 mg ml for Aspergillus extracts...
Antimycotic activities of selected plant flora, growing wild in Lebanon, against phytopathogenic fungiYusuf Abou-Jawdah
Department of Plant Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut, P.O. Box 11-0236, Riad El Solh, Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon
J Agric Food Chem 50:3208-13. 2002..b>Cladosporium sp., Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. melonis, and Verticillium dahlia...
Conditions that regulate the growth of moulds inoculated into bottled mineral waterMaria Victoria Criado
Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biologia Experimental, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, Pabellon II 1428, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Int J Food Microbiol 99:343-9. 2005..Alternaria alternata, Penicillium citrinum and Cladosporium cladosporioides spores were inoculated in bottles of mineral and mineralised water, packaged in polyethylene ..
A simple polymerase chain reaction/restriction fragment length polymorphism assay capable of identifying medically relevant filamentous fungiTimothy R Dean
National Risk Management Research Laboratory, U S Environmental Protection Agency, 109 T W Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USA
Mol Biotechnol 31:21-8. 2005..The genera analyzed were Stachybotrys, Penicillium, Aspergillus, and Cladosporium. Each organism underwent PCR with universal primers that amplified ribosomal sequences generating products from ..
Antifungal stilbenoids from Stemona collinsaeT Pacher
Comparative and Ecological Phytochemistry Department, Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, Rennweg 14, A-1030 Wien, Austria
J Nat Prod 65:820-7. 2002..Bioautographic tests with Cladosporium herbarum displayed antifungal activity for stilbenoids of all four structural types...
A small change in the design of a slit bioaerosol impactor significantly improves its collection characteristicsSergey A Grinshpun
Center for Health Related Aerosol Studies, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45267 0056, USA
J Environ Monit 9:855-61. 2007..were challenged with the non-biological polydisperse NaCl aerosol and the aerosolized fungal spores of Cladosporium cladosporioides, Aspergillus versicolor, and Penicillium melinii...
Indoor and outdoor bioaerosol levels at recreation facilities, elementary schools, and homesWan Kuen Jo
Department of Environmental Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea
Chemosphere 61:1570-9. 2005..Consequently, the current findings suggest the need for reducing strategy for indoor microorganisms at the surveyed microenvironments...
Prevalence of immunoglobulin E for fungi in atopic childrenG Nolles
Department of Paediatric Pulmonology, University Hospital, Groningen, The Netherlands
Clin Exp Allergy 31:1564-70. 2001..Positive sera were also tested for IgE against Alternaria alternata, Aspergillus fumigatus, Cladosporium herbarum and Penicillium chrysogenum, using the Pharmacia Enzyme CAP procedure...
Assessment of indoor air fungi in Western-Anatolia, TurkeyZafer Cetinkaya
Afyon Kocatepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, Turkey
Asian Pac J Allergy Immunol 23:87-92. 2005..The most common genus was Cladosporium spp. (31.9%), followed by Aspergillus spp. (18.6%), Penicillium spp. (15.5%), Altemaria spp. (13...
[Presence of the microbiological risk in Umbrian sawmills]E Guerrera
INAIL, Direzione Regionale Umbra, Consulenza Tecnica Accertamento Rischi e Prevenzione
G Ital Med Lav Ergon 28:466-71. 2006..Staphylococcus, Sphingomonas, Pasteurella, were the most predominant bacteria. The most predominant isolated fungi belong to Cladosporium, Penicillium, Alternaria and Aspergillus genus.
Rapid counting of liquid-borne microorganisms by light scattering spectrometryGediminas Mainelis
Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Ann Agric Environ Med 12:141-8. 2005..niger endospores were stained with Acridine Orange and Crystal Violet, while Cladosporium cladosporioides, Penicillium melinii and Aspergillus versicolor fungi were stained with Acridine Orange and ..
[Ecological distributions of airborne fungi in outdoor environments in Beijing, China]Li-feng Hu
1. College of Bio-Safety Science and Technology, Hunan Agriculture University, Changsha 410128, China
Huan Jing Ke Xue 26:22-7. 2005..5 CFU x m(-3). The most common culturable airborne fungi in all seasons and all functional areas were Cladosporium , nonsporulating fungi, Alternaria, Penicillium and Aspergillus...
Exposure levels of airborne bacteria and fungi in Korean swine and poultry shedsWan Kuen Jo
Department of Environmental Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea
Arch Environ Occup Health 60:140-6. 2005..Aspergillus, Cladosporium, and Penicillium were the most prevalent fungal genera, as most of the fungi belonged to these groups...
[Species composition of micromycetes from sugar beet leaves, roots and rhizospheres]T I Zubova
Mikrobiol Z 67:44-9. 2005..Species Alternaria, Trichoderma, Cladosporium, Acremonium, Penicillium, Fusarium, Mycelia sterilia were found in all investigated samples...
Antifungal activity of biflavones from Taxus baccata and Ginkgo bilobaMirosława Krauze-Baranowska
Department of Pharmacognosy, Medical University of Gdansk, Gen J Hallera 107 str, 80 416 Gdansk, Poland
Z Naturforsch C 58:65-9. 2003..sciadopitysin and 2,3-dihydrosciadopitysin towards the fungi Alternaria alternata, Fusarium culmorum, Cladosporium oxysporum was determined employing computer-aided image analysis couplet to a microscope...
Development of a fungal spore aerosol generator: test with Cladosporium cladosporioides and Penicillium citrinumByung Uk Lee
Aerosol and Bioengineering Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul 143 701, Korea
J Microbiol Biotechnol 18:795-8. 2008..We studied the physical and biological properties of the fungal spore bioaerosols on two common fungal species. The results demonstrated that the fungal spore bioaerosol generator effectively produces fungal spore bioaerosols...
[Comparative study of Bordeaux, Nantes, Toulouse, and Paris: 2002]N Dupuy Taris
CREMEM, , 351, , 33405 Talence
Eur Ann Allergy Clin Immunol 35:97-8. 2003
47 annual records of allergenic fungi spore: predictive models from the NW Iberian PeninsulaM Jesus Aira
University of Santiago, Faculty of Pharmacy, Campus South, 15706 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Ann Agric Environ Med 15:91-8. 2008An analysis was carried out of the atmospheric representivity of Cladosporium and Alternaria spores in the north-western Iberian Peninsula, registering mean annual concentrations in excess of 300,000 spores/m(3)...
Allergenic cross-reactivity of Curvularia lunata with other airborne fungal speciesR Gupta
Center for Biochemical Technology, Delhi, India
Allergy 57:636-40. 2002..Alternaria alternata exhibited maximum (68%) whereas Cladosporium herbarum showed the least (17%) skin reactivity...
[Occupational exposure to airborne fungi and bacteria in a household recycled container sorting plant ]Xavier Solans
Centro Nacional de Condiciones de Trabajo, Instituto Nacional de Seguridad e Higiene en el Trabajo, C Dulcet 2 10, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
Rev Iberoam Micol 24:131-5. 2007..Among the fungi, the predominant genera were Penicillium and Cladosporium, whereas the predominant genera of gram-negative bacteria were Escherichia, Enterobacter, Klebsiella and ..
Fungi in bottled water: a case study of a production plantAna Ribeiro
, and Micoteca da Universidade do Minho, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal
Rev Iberoam Micol 23:139-44. 2006..The dominant fungal genera in order of highest numbers isolated were Penicillium, Cladosporium and Trichoderma followed by Aspergillus, Paecilomyces, and others...
Novel cyclic peptide, epichlicin, from the endophytic fungus, Epichloe typhinaYoshiya Seto
Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, Division of Applied Bioscience, Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Japan
Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 71:1470-5. 2007..Epichlicin showed inhibitory activity toward the spore germination of Cladosporium phlei, a pathogenic fungus of the timothy plant at an IC50 value of 22 nM.
Mycodiversity on a dead stem of the giant hogweed--Heracleum mantegazzianum Sommer et LevierG B Feige
Botanical Institute and Botanical Garden, University of Duisburg Essen, Campus Essen, Universitatsstrasse 5, D 45117 Essen, Germany
Commun Agric Appl Biol Sci 69:479-87. 2004..Altemaria alternata (FR.FR.) KEISSL., Camarosporium spec., Cladosporium herbarum (PERS.) LINK, Colletotrichum dematium (PERS. Ex FR.) GOVE, Dactylella armandii YADV...
Sensitisation to airborne moulds and severity of asthma: cross sectional study from European Community respiratory health surveyMahmoud Zureik
European Community Respiratory Health Survey, Unit 408 Epidémiologie, Faculte de Medecine Xavier Bichat, BP 416, 75870 Paris Cedex 18, France
BMJ 325:411-4. 2002..To assess whether the severity of asthma is associated with sensitisation to airborne moulds rather than to other seasonal or perennial allergens...
A simple multiplex polymerase chain reaction assay for the identification of four environmentally relevant fungal contaminantsTimothy R Dean
National Risk Management Research Laboratory, U S Environmental Protection Agency, 109 T W Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USA
J Microbiol Methods 61:9-16. 2005..identify multiple fungal species, Stachybotrys chartarum, Aspergillus versicolor, Penicillium purpurogenum, and Cladosporium spp...
Stage-specific cellular localisation of two hydrophobins during plant infection by the pathogenic fungus Cladosporium fulvumJames R Whiteford
Department of Biological Sciences, Imperial College London, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College Road, SW7 2AZ London, UK
Fungal Genet Biol 41:624-34. 2004..HCf-1 and HCf-6 are two of the six hydrophobins identified in the plant pathogenic fungus Cladosporium fulvum. We have fused the viral epitope V5 to HCf-1 and HCf-6, introduced the recombinant genes into C...
An approximately 400 kDa membrane-associated complex that contains one molecule of the resistance protein Cf-4Susana Rivas
The Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, UK
Plant J 29:783-96. 2002Despite sharing more than 91% sequence identity, the tomato Cf-4 and Cf-9 proteins discriminate between two Cladosporium-encoded avirulence determinants, Avr4 and Avr9...
Pediatric invasive fungal rhinosinusitis in immunocompromised children with cancerAlbert H Park
Division of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 84132, USA
Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 133:411-6. 2005..1) To determine the factors that predispose towards invasive fungal rhinosinusitis (FS) in immunocompromised children with cancer, and 2) to propose practice guidelines for management of pediatric FS in immunocompromised patients...
[Colonization and destruction of concrete by mitosporic fungi in model experiment]M O Fomina
Mikrobiol Z 67:96-104. 2005When investigating the action of microscopic fungi of genera Aspergillus, Alternaria, Cladosporium and Paecilomyces on concrete specimens in the model system, it was shown that the fungi can colonize successfully the concrete surface ..
[Filamentous fungi and mycotoxins as potential occupational risk factors among farmers harvesting various crops]Ewa Krysinska-Traczyk
Zakładu Biologicznych Szkodliwości Zawodowych, Instytutu Medycyny Wsi w Lublinie
Med Pr 54:133-8. 2003..0 to 2825.0 cfu/g.10(3), respectively Allergizing and toxigenic fungi of Alternaria, Geotrichum, Cladosporium, Penicillium, Aspergillus and Fusarium species were observed in the study samples of grain and grain dust...
Antifungal susceptibility and pathogenic potential of environmental isolated filamentous fungi compared with colonizing agents in immunocompromised patientsA B A Teixeira
Clinical Pathology Department, School of Medical Sciences, State University of Campinas, , Brazil
Mycopathologia 160:129-35. 2005..Fusarium spp. were the most prevalent genus in the fall and Cladosporium spp. in the winter. Clinically isolated strains grew better at 37 degrees C than environmental strains...
[Prevalence of mycelial fungi in hematological hospital]N A Petrova
Ter Arkh 75:58-63. 2003..RESULTS: Tests for mycelial fungi in the air was 95%. Dominating species were the following: Penicillium spp., Cladosporium spp., Aspergillus spp. The fungal contamination was seasonal...
Post-harvest storage of corn: effect of beginning moisture content on mycoflora and fumonisin contaminationE Y S Ono
Department of Biochemistry, State University of Londrina, PO Box 6001, 86051 990, Londrina, Parana, Brazil
Food Addit Contam 19:1081-90. 2002..b>Cladosporium spp., Aspergillus spp. and Phoma spp. were also detected at lower frequencies during the storage. Fusarium spp...
[Foods with complaints of fungal contamination and physical problems caused by their ingestion]Ayako Sakai
National Institute of Health Sciences: 1-18-1, Kamiyoga, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158-8501, Japan
Shokuhin Eiseigaku Zasshi 45:201-6. 2004..The major fungal genus detected in the suspect foods were Penicillium, Aspergillus and Cladosporium. Aspergillus niger was the dominant species contaminating bakery products...
Use of ozone to reduce molds in a cheese ripening roomRita Serra
, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
J Food Prot 66:2355-8. 2003..The mold genera occurring most frequently in the air of the cheese ripening room were Penicillium, Cladosporium, and Aspergillus, which accounted for 89.9% of the mold isolates...
[Fungal population and distribution of aflatoxigenic fungi in commercial almond powder products]Tomoko Kenjo
Tokyo Kasei University, 1 18 1 Kaga, Itabashi ku, Tokyo 173 8602, Japan
Shokuhin Eiseigaku Zasshi 48:90-6. 2007..flavus and the related species, Penicillium, Cladosporium and Rhizopus. Aflatoxin-producing ability in the isolates of A...
A simple polymerase chain reaction-sequencing analysis capable of identifying multiple medically relevant filamentous fungal speciesTimothy R Dean
National Risk Management Research Laboratory, U S Environmental Protection Agency, 109 T W Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USA
Mycopathologia 162:265-71. 2006..we were capable of identifying Stachybotrys chartarum, Penicillium purpurogenum, Aspergillus sydowii, and Cladosporium cladosporioides from a mixed culture...
Alternaria alternata NADP-dependent mannitol dehydrogenase is an important fungal allergenP B Schneider
Division of Genetics, Department of Cell Biology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Clin Exp Allergy 36:1513-24. 2006..Mannitol dehydrogenase (MtDH) has previously been shown to be a major allergen of Cladosporium herbarum and cross-reactivity has been demonstrated for several fungal allergens...
[Fungal spores in the environment of the asthmatic patient in a semi-desert area of Mexico]Verónica Araceli Martínez Ordaz
Unidad de Investigacion en Epidemiologia Clinica, Centro Medico Nacional Torreon, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Mexico
Rev Alerg Mex 49:2-7. 2002..To analyze the frequency and type of fungal spores in the habitat of sensitized asthmatic patients, its relationship with skin test reactivity to fungi and indoor factors favoring the fungi development...
Plant sciences. Recognition at a distancePaul Schulze-Lefert
Department of Plant Microbe Interactions, , , Germany
Science 308:506-8. 2005
Research Grants
- Health Effects of CREON2000 In Asthmatic ChildrenMark Glazman; Fiscal Year: 2003..air and settled dust samples to analyze allergens (dust mite, cat, dog, cockroach and Aspergillus, Penicillium, Cladosporium and Alternaria mold spores) and bacterial and endotoxin levels in the child's bedroom...
- Advanced Sampler for Measuring Exposure to Biological AerosolsGEDIMINAS contact MAINELIS; Fiscal Year: 2010..It will allow us to better understand workers'exposures and related health effects and to implement protective measures more effectively. ..
- Molecular epidemiologic identification of pneumococcal tissue specific genesMELINDA MARY PETTIGREW; Fiscal Year: 2010..A greater understanding of the genetic factors that influence the virulence potential of pneumococcal clones is critical to our ability to develop effective methods to control, prevent, and treat these important infections. ..
- Epidemiology of asthma: risk and prognosis in a cohort from birth to adolescenceSYED ARSHAD; Fiscal Year: 2009..Our work brings together a multidisciplinary research team with a proven record of collaboration and expertise in respiratory medicine, allergy and immunology, epidemiology, genetics, and biostatistics. ..
- Molecular epidemiologic identification of pneumococcal tissue specific genesMelinda Pettigrew; Fiscal Year: 2009..A greater understanding of the genetic factors that influence the virulence potential of pneumococcal clones is critical to our ability to develop effective methods to control, prevent, and treat these important infections. ..
- Design/Advanced Electrostatic Sampler for Total BioaerosolsGediminas Mainelis; Fiscal Year: 2007..The research findings and practical recommendations developed in this research will be disseminated to stakeholders through internet, national and international conferences and workshops. ..
- Epidemiology of asthma: risk and prognosis in a cohort from birth to adolescenceSYED ARSHAD; Fiscal Year: 2007..Our work brings together a multidisciplinary research team with a proven record of collaboration and expertise in respiratory medicine, allergy and immunology, epidemiology, genetics, and biostatistics. ..
- Molecular epidemiologic identification of pneumococcal tissue specific genesMelinda Pettigrew; Fiscal Year: 2007..A greater understanding of the genetic factors that influence the virulence potential of pneumococcal clones is critical to our ability to develop effective methods to control, prevent, and treat these important infections. ..
- Evaluation of Portable Samplers for Viable BioaerosolsGediminas Mainelis; Fiscal Year: 2006..Future directions of this research will be development of a portable bioaerosol sampler, sampling characteristics of which follow conventions for inhalable, thoracic and respirable particles. ..
- Gene Discovery for Pneumococcal Otitis MediaMelinda Pettigrew; Fiscal Year: 2005..Discovery of additional factors involved in streptococcal OM will facilitate the development of new strategies for the control and prevention of this important disease. ..
- Nanostenting Hydrogels for Sinus SurgeryRICHARD ORLANDI; Fiscal Year: 2004..The results of these Phase I studies will determine the feasibility and the optimal chemical properties of a nanostenting HA gel for human trials. ..
- Epidemiology of asthma: risk and prognosis in a cohort from birth to adolescenceSyed Hasan Arshad; Fiscal Year: 2010..Our work brings together a multidisciplinary research team with a proven record of collaboration and expertise in respiratory medicine, allergy and immunology, epidemiology, genetics, and biostatistics. ..
