Dermatophytes and related keratinophilic fungi in soil of parks and agricultural fields of Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract

Alternaria alternata, Aspergillus candidus, A. flavus, A. niger, Aphanoascus fulvescens, A. kiliense, Acremonium implicatum, Arthroderma tuberculatum, Aurobasidium piluliferum, Chrysosporium carmichaelii, C. georgii, C. indicum, C. keratinophilum, C. queensladicum, C. tropicum 1, C. tropicum 2, C. xerophilum, C. zonatum, C. keratinophilum, Cladosporium herbarium, Diamargaris sp., Geomyces pannorum, Geotrichum sp., Gliocladium sp., Gymnoascus hyalinospora, Microsporum fulvum, M. gypseum, M. vanbreuseghmii, M. mannum, Malbranchea pulchella, Mucor pusillus, Myceliophthora vellera, T. mentagrophytes, T. varrucosum, and Verticillium tenuipes were isolated from 213 samples of cultivated fields of Agra, Allahabad, Etawah, Faizabad, Farrukhabad, Gonda, Gorakhpur, Kannauj, Kanpur, Lucknow, Meerut, Raibareilly, Sitapur, Unnao, Fatehpur, and Varanasi. [...] the incidence of dermatophytes and potentially pathogenic keratinophilic fungi in the soil of cultivated fields and parks, and their ability to perforate human hair is an indication of the outbreak of infections of skin and its appendages in farmers and children who remain in contact with these two habitats.