| molecular strategy for identification in aspergillus section flavi. | aspergillus flavus is one of the most common contaminants that produces aflatoxins in foodstuffs. it is also a human allergen and a pathogen of animals and plants. aspergillus flavus is included in the aspergillus section flavi that comprises 11 closely related species producing different profiles of secondary metabolites. a six-step strategy has been developed that allows identification of nine of the 11 species. first, three real-time pcr reactions allowed us to discriminate four groups within ... | 2010 | 20377644 |
| multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis of clinical isolates of aspergillus flavus from iran reveals the first cases of aspergillus minisclerotigenes associated with human infection. | aspergillus flavus is intensively studied for its role in infecting crop plants and contaminating produce with aflatoxin, but its role as a human pathogen is less well understood. in parts of the middle east and india, a. flavus surpasses a. fumigatus as a cause of invasive aspergillosis and is a significant cause of cutaneous, sinus, nasal and nail infections. | 2014 | 24986045 |
| two novel aflatoxin-producing aspergillus species from argentinean peanuts. | two novel species from aspergillus section flavi from different species of arachis (peanuts) in argentina are described as aspergillus arachidicola sp. nov. and aspergillus minisclerotigenes sp. nov. their novel taxonomic status was determined using a polyphasic taxonomic approach with phenotypic (morphology and extrolite profiles) and molecular (beta-tubulin and calmodulin gene sequences) characters. a. minisclerotigenes resembles aspergillus flavus and aspergillus parvisclerotigenus in produci ... | 2008 | 18319485 |