| Species/Subspecies: | Aspergillus flavus | ||||||||||
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| Categories: | Animal pathogen; human pathogen; toxic for animals; toxic for humans; spoilage organism | ||||||||||
| Etymology: | Genus name: to scatter. Species epithet: yellow. |
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| Significance: | [Unclassified] | ||||||||||
| Geographic distribution: | Global distribution. | ||||||||||
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| Macromorphology (smell):
| The colonies are usually powdery with lots of yellow-green spores on the top and reddish-yellow on the underside. | ||||||||||
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| Spec. Char.: | A. flavus is thermotolerant and has rapid growth up to 55 °C. Can grow slowly up to 59 °C. | ||||||||||
| Reservoir: | Soil | ||||||||||
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| Virulence Factors: | Usually produces only flatoxin B1 and B2, which are important mycotoxins. May also produce some other mycotoxins, such as cyclopiazonic acid, gliotoxin, kojic acid and sterigmatocystin. However, All strains of A. flavus does not produce all mycotoxins and there are strains that do not produce mycotoxins at all. | ||||||||||
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| Updated: | 2022-06-22 |
