| [isolation of several species of the genus aspergillus from soil of intrahospital ornamental plants]. | the earth of ornamental plants is one of the main reservoirs of aspergillus type of fungi in hospital areas. we studied 174 ornamental interior plants from a hospital at santiago. samples were obtained from the soil surface and sowed in sabouraud-glucose agar, adding streptomycin and g-penicillin. after 72 h of culture, at least one strain of aspergillus was isolated from 140 samples (80.5%). the most frequently isolated strain was a fumigatus (129 samples), followed by a niger (75 samples). a f ... | 1994 | 7659910 |