Fungus

were also fungus growing in a shelf style about 6” to 8” long and white in color, these grew very close to the end of the dead wood and parallel to the ground. There were also button mushrooms that were a burnt orange color and were your typical fungus shape with a stool, and umbrella top. A strange orange creeping slime cover complete branches of this one tree behind Mellinger. The tree was a deciduous type (not maple, oak, or ash), and about at mid maturity maybe 15’ tall. The fungus was…

Proximal subungual onychomycosis under her toenails. Patient 1 Patient History/Present Illness: This patient, a middle aged women, presented with persistent, fungus under her toes. She described it as itchy and unsightly. The fungus is present under each toe but more so under her big toes. Her condition has been going on for months and no amount of over-the-counter medication have solved the problem. The patient mentioned that at…

According to Theory number 1, Ergot fungus contaminated the crops harvested by the people of Salem, Massachusetts which developed the hallucinations of the citizens and started the Salem Witch Trials. In 1692, they harvested a great deal of wheat, rye and cereal grasses. Ergot, or ergot poisoning, is a fungus that attacks the central nervous system and causes muscle contractions, confusion, impaired speech, crawling sensations on the skin and hallucinations. The girls in Salem had feelings of…

go to the doctor to get a diagnosis. When doctors diagnose a patient for a ringworm, they usually get a skin biopsy, which is taking a sample of the skin and getting it tested in a lab to see if there is any presence of fungus found, or they use a black light which makes the fungus glow if any is present, same as what scientists are now using for the testing of bats with a disease called White nose Syndrome (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140529182745.htm). Before the scientists…

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high or low temperature than optimum, the growth of the fungus was inhibited and hence the xylanase production was decreased (Yaun and Rugyu.,1999) Incubation temperature for enzyme substrate reaction plays a critical role in enzyme productivity (Seyis and…

agents on the endemic, non-target species and the optimum condition for successful mass breeding at the introduced environment continue to hamper biocontrol application. Entomopathogenic fungi have been known to severely infect insect pests. The fungus, Beauveria bassiana (Ascomycota: Hypocreales) is virulence on a broad range of insect hosts. Over 200…

It is a common problem that most people have. Due to the embarrassing effect of this infection, these people cannot flaunt their feet and often hide them by wearing shoes. To end this rather uncomfortable situation, you may want to use Natural Nail Fungus Treatment so you can be released from this uncompromising situation. Using herbal medicines is one of the inexpensive yet very effective ways to deal with this problem. The severity of nail fungal infection may vary from one person to another.…

information on a fungal infection from a fungus group called Chytrid. The weird thing about this discovery is that this fungus has never been seen before and they can only be found deep underground or in treetops. So they had to create a whole new genome for it. They named it Batrachochytrium Dendrobatidis or Bd. Tests were run on this fungus, and when it was exposed to poison blue dart frogs it killed them within a couple weeks. It was then concluded that this fungus is an invasive pathogen…

a degree in Microbiology. If Christy wasn’t teaching, she would have used her degree for research, which she did before moving to North Carolina. She worked in the orange groves of Florida using bio-pesticides and entomopathogenic fungus, environmentally safe fungus that attacks…