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keratinophilic fungi on feathers of common clinically healthy birds in bahrain.	the occurrence of keratinophilic fungi associated with feather samples from 10 bird species was investigated using mycobiotic agar(®) following the incubation at 25 ± 2°c for 4 weeks. a total of 225 feather samples were cultured, of which 157 (69.77%) were found to be positive. altogether 184 fungal isolates represented by 11 species and grouped into five genera were recovered viz. chrysosporium, trichophyton, arthroderma, scopulariopsis and sepedonium. based on relative density values to rank s ...	2011	19627507
keratinophilic fungi from selected soils of bahrain.	eighty soil samples were collected from various sites of bahrain and screened for presence of keratinophilic fungi using hair baiting techniques for isolation. thirty-six isolates were recovered and identified. the cultures were identified using macro- and micromorphological features. their identification was also confirmed by the blast search of sequences of its1-5.8s-its2 rdna region against the ncbi/gene bank data and compared with deposited sequences for confirmation. eight species of five g ...	2008	17932786