Fungus

what may have caused the Salem Witch Trails. Some believe the girls were out for vengeance in The Crucible. Evidence found that a fungus could have been the culprit. The bread that the girls made during that time could have a fungus, ergot. Some signs off this was the weather, the present symptoms, and information about ergot. First, lets define what ergot is, a fungus that grows on rye and less common on other grasses such as wheat (webmd.com). Rye bread was one of the more common foods…

Symptoms of Candida Overproduction and Treatment The fungus Candida is a form of yeast found in your intestine and mouth in small amounts. The function of this fungus is to help the process of digestion and absorption of nutrients. However, overgrowth of Candida causes the fungus to enter the blood by breaking down the intestine wall. It releases toxic byproducts causing digestive issues, leaky gut and depression. How does Candida overgrowth happen? The bacterium in the gut that is not…

barbae). Causes and Spread of Ringworm Ringworm is caused by a fungus that can live on your skin or surfaces like; locker room floors household items (towels, bedsheets, and clothing.) The spread of ringworm occurs by contact.…

trees [5]. As time passes, the PSHB infestation problem grows more urgent. The amount of infected trees is on the rise, and infection has spread to many different areas, including to the campus of the University of California, Irvine (UCI). The insect-fungus parasitism has infected hundreds of trees in Aldrich Park and threatens to…

abundant number of doctors believed it was due to worms called hence. According to David Gruby around 1843, he described a fungus that causes a certain ringworm. Ringworms were extremely common among poor people during the 1800s they thought it was caused by bad hygiene. Now it has been proven that it is not actually caused by a worm the proper medical term is Tinea which is a fungus. (Homei A, 2013) Ringworm is classified by the part of the body that got infected the most common are head, face,…

because of the warm,dark,and moist environment that our toes provide its easy for the fungus to grow and will mostly always be found between the toes. Trichophyton mentagrophytes and Trichophyton rubrum are the two most commonly found fungus’ in athletes foot and they are parasitic meaning they need to feed off another organism to survive,in this case the organism would be the old and dead skin cells the fungus feed off of to survive. Trichophyton meat graphites often causes toe web or blister…

Hypothesis: I hypothesize that if we replace infected host trees (avocado) with uninfected host trees (apple trees), the number of trees infected with Fusarium dieback will decrease because apple trees do not provide enough water for beetles and fungus to live inside them. Introduction: An invasive beetle—The Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer (PSHB)—is the factor that causes a serious disease in trees called Fusarium Dieback (FD). PSHB is a native Southeast Asia adult female beetle that carries…

Name Vaxi Chokshi Biology 102 Section 002 RL Kingdom Fungi Homework Date 3-20-2015 A. Identify the unknown Fungi specimens: Unknown A Rhizopus stolonifer Unknown B Aspergillus niger Unknown C Penicillium notatum Unknown D________________________________________ B. Type the answer the following questions. (20 pts. each) Remember to include a citation after each question (author, year) and a full citation in the literature cited section at the end of the report. If you…

affect vision of the patient Causes There is different type of fungi causing Keratitis: 1. Fusarium: most commonly fungi causing the fungal Keratitis. 67% of the total cases are caused by this fungus 2. Aspergillius: 10.5% of the condition is caused by this fungus 3. Candida: 10% of disease is caused by this fungus…

The fungus is only deadly to ants. The fungus attaches its self to the bottom forest floor leaves and only can latch on to lingering ants if crosses its path. If we were to transport this fungus and relocate it to the parts of Africa where the tsetse fly resides and have it somehow infect the passing fly. We could have a deadly parasite on our hands…