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 Penicillium marneffei -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
(Genus of fungi commonly growing as green or blue molds on decaying food; used in making cheese and as a source of penicillin) Penicillium species are usually regarded as unimportant in terms of causing disease.
This is the only (additional info and facts about thermally dimorphic) thermally dimorphic Penicillium, and it can cause systemic infection, creating a (Intense nervous anticipation) fever and (A deficiency of red blood cells) anaemia similar to disseminated (A fungal infection characterized by nodular lesions--first in the lungs and spreading to the nervous system) cryptococcosis.
Discovered in (additional info and facts about bamboo rat) bamboo rats in (A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea; achieved independence from France in 1945) Vietnam, it is still associated with both the rats, and the area.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pe/penicillium_marneffei.htm   (819 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Antibiotic
Although he was unable to purify the compound (the beta-lactam ring in the penicillin molecule was not stable under the purification methods he tried), he reported it in the scientific literature in 1929.
Since the mold was of the genus Penicillium, he named this compound penicillin.
Species Penicillium notatum Penicillium glaucum Penicillium candida Penicillium roqueforti Penicillium marneffei > Penicillium bilaiae Penicillium or bread mold is a genus of fungus that includes: Penicillium notatum which produces the penicillin antibiotic Penicillium glaucum used in making Gorgonzola cheese Penicillium candida used in making Brie and Camembert cheese, also see candida...
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 Penicillium
Penicillium or bread mold is a genus of fungus that includes:
Penicillium candida used in making Brie cheese and Camembert cheese
Penicillium marneffei a thermally dimorphic species endemic in Southeast Asia, which is a problem in AIDS patients.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/p/pe/penicillium.html   (93 words)

  
 Dixie State College - Val A. Browning Library
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Penicillium marneffei was once believed to have been most closely related to the subgenus Furcatum.
Also, the sexual state of Talorolmyces is closely related with the asexual state of Penicillium.
library.dixie.edu /InfoLit/ResearchGuides/Biol1050.htm   (4583 words)

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