Fungus

Maintaining Healthy Nails: How to Prevent Toenail Fungus Any part of your body can be disposed to fungal infection. Normally, a lot of fungi are living in and out of your body. When these fungi begin to overgrow, they can cause infection. Fungal infections usually develop gradually, so you can not readily identify if there is any abnormality in your nail by the way it looks or feels. What is Toenail Fungus? Toenail fungus is an infection which is caused by fungi that gets in through the…

Order 2 Hidden Repercussions Of Foot Fungus Nobody likes having issues with their feet, but many people often write off these problems as trivial, especially if they aren’t causing any major pain. This kind of laissez-faire approach may not contain any long-term repercussions if it is a minor issue. But it can be problematic if the problem in question is foot fungus, especially when associated with the toenails. In many cases, toenail fungus appears as just a slight discoloration on a nail, and…

the results would be almost catastrophic. For one, fungi are extremely important to the ants. Specifically, the fungus Lepiotaceae . The ants cultivate this fungus and feed it to their larvae. Leaf-cutter ants contain a bacterium called Pseudonocardia that lives on ants and kills off Escovopsis Fungus, which consumes the cultivated fungus. So, in turn, the leaf-cutter ants need the fungus to feed their young or else…

Wilt. Oak Wilt is caused by exotic fungus also referred as Ceratocystis Fagacearum. Oak Wilt goes onto leaves which causes them to turn a brownish color instead of their original green color. A native species is Panicgrass also known as Panicum. Panicum helps give food to the wildlife unlike the invasive species. That’s some differences they have. Similarities are that they both live in the wildlife. Oak Wilt is an invasive species. It is made by exotic fungus also known as Ceratocystis…

Stachybotrys Chartarum, more commonly known as Black Mold, is one of the most dangerous molds human beings can encounter. Black Mold is a greenish-black fungus that can be found worldwide colonizes extremely well in high cellulose materials such as hay, straw, dry wall, thermal insulation, ceiling tiles, and carpet. The toxic mold exists in about 15 different strains across the world and flourishes in regions where the relative humidity is above 55%. The existence of this toxic mold is…

Hot and Cold spots of selection: Parasitoid attack of fungus-growing ants Abstract: It is known that fungus-growing ants, and their integral mutualism with fungus, allowed for their exploitation of new niches; which resulted in diversified lineages. However, there may have been other factors that refined these lineages into the resulting clades and species we see today. Diapriidae wasps are extremely common in the Neotropics; and poorly understood phylogenetically and ecologically. However,…

In theory number one, it speaks about a type of fungus called ergot which grew in Salem. In western Salem grain was their staple crop. When eating the ergot contaminated food it would have side effects to the Salem villagers. The victims would have prickling sensations all over their body and muscle spasms. The fungus would grow in swampy meadows. Puritans would believe that the people who ate the fungus and had side effects from it were witches. However one year there was a dry season and…

the skin in the groin area. It is sometimes called ringworm even though it is not caused by worms. It is caused by a fungus, which is a type of germ that thrives in dark, damp places. Jock itch causes a rash and itching in the groin and upper thigh area. It usually goes away in 2–3 weeks with treatment. CAUSES The fungus that causes jock itch may be spread by: • Touching a fungus infection elsewhere on your body, such as athlete's foot, and then touching your groin area. • Sharing towels or…

Visit Alba in October and you'll be just in time for the local truffle festival. The streets will be packed with vendors, and the air thick with the scent of this delicious, edible fungus. Every restaurant in town will feature it's best truffle dish. Witnessing such a scene you would never guess at the relative scarcity of the truffle. Every year farmers head out in the dead of night. They take their truffle sniffing pigs or dogs and steal off to the fields. The location of a truffle crop is…

Tullio Simonchini the cause of cancer is a fungus and the actual theories about cancer are all wrong. His therapy is based on sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3) which is the strongest antifungal substance. The fundamental theory of his treatment points to the fact that the presence of fungus will result to development and spreading of tumors. Fungus cannot be immune with Sodium bicarbonate and the latter has the ability to penetrate and disintegrate…