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Table 4 Fungal characterisation: kitchen, female and male wards

From: Identification of airborne microbiota in selected areas in a health-care setting in South Africa

Origin

Species identification using MALDI-TOF MS

Species identification using API

Source

Health effects

References

Kitchen area

Candida kefyr [anamorph] (Kluyveromyces marxianus spp. marxianus [teleomorph]) CBS 834

Candida spp.

Plant debris, soil, wood, textiles, indoor air environment

Causes pneumonia, keratomycosis, pulmonary mycosis with sepsis eumycotic dermatitis, peritonitis, etc.

[36, 37]

Aureobasidium pullulans 16419 CBS BS

Aureobasidium pullulans 12235 CBS

Diabetic female ward

Candida krusei [anamorph] (Issatchenkia orientalis[teleomorph]) ATCC 14243 THL

Candida spp.

Plant debris, soil, water, wood, textiles, food products, indoor and outdoor air environment

Candidiasis with fungal infections of the skin, mucous membranes and internal organs

[36, 37]

Phoma exigua spp. exigua CBS 431_74 CBS

Candida robustad [anamorph] (Saccharomyces cerevisiae [teleomorph]) INVSc1 BRL

Male ward Room 3

Candida glabrata ATCC 2001 T THL

Candida spp.

Plant debris, soil, water, wood, textiles, food products, indoor and outdoor air

Candidiasis with fungal infections of the skin, mucous membranes and internal organs

[36, 37]

Male ward Room 5

Agromyces rhizospherae HKI 302_DSM 14597 T HKJ

Agromyces rhizospherae

Plant debris, soil, wood, textiles, and indoor air environment

Causes pneumonia, keratomycosis, pulmonary mycosis with sepsis eumycotic dermatitis, peritonitis, etc.

[36, 37]

Candida parapsilosis ATCC 22019 THL

Male ward TB room

Aureobasidium pullulans 16420 CBS

Penicillium spp.

Plant debris, soil, wood, food products, textiles, and indoor air environment

Causes pneumonia, keratomycosis, peritonitis, etc. hypersensitivity pneumonitis, asthma, allergic alveolitis

[36, 37]

Penicillium spp. IsolateS2 HED

Candida orthopsilosis P3118_8_37 HAC