Molds and colors

[JEDilworth]

Inhaling Aspergillus fumigatus can cause severe disease of the lungs.
Aspergillus can also infect the brain in immunocompromised patients. I
have serious doubts as to the safety of your project, unless your plates
are completely sealed. They grow at room temperature quite rapidly and
will fill up a Petri dish very rapidly.

Here's are pages from the CDC:

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/aspergillosis_t.htm

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/hip/pneumonia/1_asper.htm

When we work with fungi in the laboratory we work with it in a biosafety
cabinet. These cabinets are cleaned with bleach because the Aspergillus
and Penicillium spores can contaminate other cultures one is trying to
work on.

Perhaps I am misunderstanding what you plan on doing with these
molds.......

Judy Dilworth, M.T. (ASCP)
Microbiology




"Martin Weiss" <mweiss at nyscience.org> wrote in message
news:p06002000bb9f887da54c@[192.168.1.83]...
> Does anyone have a reference to molds based upon their color?
> I'd like to create an exhibit-sort of a mold painting-using molds of
> different colors. Hopefully the substrates won't be to difficult.
> Ones I know of are aspergillus is brown-black, penicillium is blue
> green.
>
> Any others?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Martin
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