tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60636820636068601262024-03-13T02:44:22.353-07:00MasFilmswelcome to our blog, here we discuss health and tips to maintain health, information about diseases, ways to maintain health, and much moreAdminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02893852797200151144noreply@blogger.comBlogger303125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6063682063606860126.post-50297402980702769132015-01-27T07:45:00.000-08:002019-04-01T00:41:39.086-07:00Aspergillus Website Blog Moved<br />
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Source : <a href="http://andromaxdewadewi.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">BangJekBlog</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6063682063606860126.post-52966174530235917142015-01-23T03:02:00.000-08:002018-12-14T15:34:09.263-08:00Antifungal Combination Therapy: A Step Forward<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Combination therapy for IA benefits the moderately ill patients most<br />The first large (454 participants) randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled multicenter trial study on combination therapy shows a 11% improvement in survival at 6 weeks (which is a 42% improvement compared with treating with voriconazole alone). All patients received voriconazole and half also received anidulafungin. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6063682063606860126.post-66320709481360415352015-01-22T03:12:00.000-08:002018-12-14T15:34:10.311-08:00Could fungus be the next big killer? Experts warn fungal diseases now cause more deaths than malaria and tuberculosis<br /><br /><br />The Daily Mail (UK national newspaper) recently published the following story based on four main points made by Professor Rosemary Barnes of Cardiff University:<br /><br />Figures show fungal diseases cause hundreds of thousands of deaths<br />Death often follows severe respiratory illness and infections of the blood<br />Experts warn fungi kill more people than malaria and tuberculosis globally<br />They also destroyUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6063682063606860126.post-45343042173404357972015-01-13T07:40:00.000-08:002018-12-14T15:34:08.478-08:00Poor Ventilation of Homes Causes Health Problems for the Occupants<br /><br />53% of homes in the East of England are affected by mould, according to a recent survey. Although this relies on self reported impressions of owners own homes and we do not know how many were polled to form this satistic, this is still quite a shocking statistic.<br /><br />Many of us would probably say that poorly maintained homes and the rental market are probably the main properties that are likely toUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6063682063606860126.post-47669462327853247872015-01-12T08:36:00.000-08:002018-12-14T15:34:08.674-08:00The Larget Living Thing on Earth - a Fungus!If you were asked what the largest living thing was what would you guess?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The Blue Whale? <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />A Canadian Redwood?<br /><br /><br />The Blue Whale IS pretty big at 24m in length and its tongue alone is the size of an African Elephant. Canadian Redwood trees are huge at 100m in height but neither come close to the current largest living thing on earth!<br /><br />You might think fungi are pretty small and certainly Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6063682063606860126.post-34996321828924088932014-12-23T01:00:00.000-08:002018-12-14T15:34:08.019-08:00Energy Efficient Homes Are Also Asthma Causing Homes<br />The UK government have for some time been supporting (by deed and funding) the construction and renovation of our homes so that they meet very strict energy efficiency requirements. As a direct consequence insulation has been lavishly funded while there has been little or no emphasis on introducing fresh air into properties i.e. via ventilation - presumably because ventilation can cause heat Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6063682063606860126.post-43395419261495915572014-12-22T05:35:00.000-08:002018-12-14T15:34:08.413-08:00Allergy to Christmas Tree's Is Not Only Caused By Moulds<br /><br /><br /><br />Some years ago and more recently in the media it has been noted that small studies on mould found on live Christmas tree's brought into the home for the festive period suggest that the amount of moulds on the tree slowly increased over the days it spends in your home. We recommended at the time that as a result it would be best if people who are sensitive to moulds remove these trees after 7 Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6063682063606860126.post-10845019975408421282014-12-19T01:00:00.000-08:002018-12-14T15:34:06.050-08:00Turn Plastics into Food - Using Fungi!<br /><br /><br />Microbiologists and two designers have come up with a device dubbed the Fungi Mutarium, which is capable of turning biodegradable plastic into -- hold your breath -- edible mushrooms!<br /><br />The Fungi Mutarium is the brainchild of Livin, an Austrian design studio, and Utrecht University, which aimed to create a device that could break down man-made trash and at the same time grow tasty edibles.<br /><br />TheUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6063682063606860126.post-31877778404572381882014-12-18T08:19:00.000-08:002018-12-14T15:34:07.560-08:00Environmentally Friendly Nanotechnology using Fungi<br />Nanotechnology is a rapidly developing science and a number of methods are now available for producing nanoparticles. However, some of these methods employ high energy requirements, low material conversions and the use of hazardous chemicals. Hence, there is a growing need to develop eco-friendly nanoparticle synthesis methods.<br />Biosynthetic methods such as those that employ plant extracts or Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6063682063606860126.post-83349896722485182792014-12-09T05:26:00.000-08:002018-12-14T15:34:12.036-08:00Chocolate Frosty Pod Rot = World Shortage of Chocolate!<br /><br /><br />Originally reported by Jennifer Frazer in the Scientific American Journal:<br /><br />For a long time frosty pod rot was relatively confined to Colombia, Ecuador, and western Venezuela in northwest South America. Since the 1950s, it has spread throughout South and Central America, reaching Panama in 1956, Costa Rica in 1978, Nicaragua in 1980, Peru in 1988, Honduras in 1997, Guatemala in 2002, Belize Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6063682063606860126.post-32899249804356363462014-12-08T05:33:00.000-08:002018-12-14T15:34:07.756-08:00Welcome Research Funding: Change of Approach<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Refreshing our funding framework<br />Jeremy Farrar has announced a refreshed funding framework. The most significant changes include a clearer distinction between strategic and responsive funding, a major new scheme for collaborative research by teams, seed funding to support the generation of new ideas, more opportunities for the research leaders of the future and the merging of our New Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6063682063606860126.post-28307894008781823362014-12-08T05:06:00.000-08:002018-12-14T15:34:07.364-08:00Damp Causes Mould Problems and Fire Hazard!<br /><br /><br />Reported during particularly wet weather in Montana, USA by Emily Glunk, MSU Extension Forage Specialist:<br /><br /><br />Following the large amounts of rain received throughout Montana in recent days, MSU Extension has received reports of heating and molding of hay bales that have been stacked and stored outside. Problems following heating and water damage of hay include spontaneous hay fires; quality lossUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6063682063606860126.post-79236495952704106032014-12-02T08:44:00.000-08:002018-12-14T15:34:11.568-08:00World AIDS Day: Global Action Fund for Fungal Infections requests WHO includes Itraconazole on EMLYesterday (Dec 1st) was World AIDS Day and the pioneering health charity GAFFI lobbied the WHO to include Itraconazole on the Essential Medicines List (EML), this would help hundreds of thousands of AIDS and HIV positive patients worldwide.<br />GAFFI’s application to the WHO, was in collaboration with the International Foundation for Dermatology and pinpointed key fungal diseases with AIDS, for Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6063682063606860126.post-23673659123355953742014-11-27T06:21:00.000-08:002018-12-14T15:34:07.100-08:00The Fungal Internet - Millions of Years Old<br />Hidden under your feet is an information superhighway that allows plants to communicate and help each other out. It’s made of fungi!<br /><br /><br /><br />The BBC have released an article summarising and putting into context a series of observations made about the ability many plants have to form intimate relationships with fungi growing around their roots.<br /><br />Mycorrhiza have been known for many years now as a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6063682063606860126.post-84496243215990032072014-11-26T05:29:00.000-08:002018-12-14T15:34:12.103-08:00Bagpipers Urged to Keep Their Pipes Clean of Fungi<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />WARNING: your bagpipes may kill you! <br />Leading piping organisations have issued a hygiene alert after a piper was hospitalised for four weeks having contracted a potentially fatal lung infection… from his bagpipes.<br /><br />John Shone, an expert in classical piping, first learned to play while a member of the Boys’ Brigade seven decades ago and has practised daily ever since.<br /><br />But the 77-year-old’s Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6063682063606860126.post-36883990792686310992014-11-25T05:17:00.000-08:002018-12-14T15:34:08.085-08:00Aspergillus Protease Allergens have a Role in AsthmaAsthma is a debilitating disease characterised by airway inflammation, hyperresponsiveness and bronchoconstriction leading to symptoms such as wheeze, cough and breathlessness, and in severe cases even death.<br /><br />Adults with severe asthma have significantly greater test reactivity to fungi (incl. Aspergillus fumigatus) compared with other well established allergens eg house dust mite and 50% of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6063682063606860126.post-33882292981095518822014-11-18T10:26:00.000-08:002018-12-14T15:34:07.822-08:00A New Direction for Antibiotic Development Thanks to Fungi<br />Could there be a new form of antibiotic? Scientists have<br />identified a new substance with antibiotic tendencies. Typical antibiotics are<br />non-protein organic compounds, but this new substance has been found to be a<br />protein called copsin.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Copsin has been isolated from a common inky cap mushroom<br />Coprinopsis cinerea, a fungus that grows on horse dung. Research found that<br />copsin was the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6063682063606860126.post-80485168981521047742014-11-15T10:35:00.000-08:002018-12-14T15:34:11.700-08:00Flying Fungus - Covert Mycelia!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Drones (unmanned remotely controlled aircraft on which equipment such as cameras are mounted) have been used by the military for some time for high level surveillance tasks, but now are increasingly available to civil authorities and members of the public, though their use is subject to strict regulations in the UK.<br /><br /><br /><br />A student team has<br />recently created a drone that consists of the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6063682063606860126.post-17800487144187557612014-11-07T10:53:00.000-08:002018-12-14T15:34:06.904-08:00Toxic Mould in Herbal Medicines<br /><br /><br /><br />Dried herbal medicines<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />It is estimated that the herbal medicine industry is worth<br />$60 billion. Over 60% of people use medicinal plants to treat illnesses and<br />relieve pain, but with the majority of medicinal plants unregulated, what could<br />those people also be exposing themselves to. <br /><br /><br /><br />A new study has found 43% of the plants naturally<br />contaminated with toxins, 30% of these being Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6063682063606860126.post-37967577100066911462014-10-31T09:57:00.000-07:002018-12-14T15:34:08.151-08:00Aflatoxin, an Invisible Food Hazard?<br /><br />Part of the popular media have long been making much out of the fact that fungi such as Aspergillus can produce highly toxic compounds when growing under the right conditions. The right conditions can cause contamination on plant material that forms part of our food chain, so it follows that these toxins are poisoning us. Can this be correct?<br /><br />There is certainly plenty of evidence that if left Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6063682063606860126.post-65380292783530600922014-10-24T04:38:00.000-07:002018-12-14T15:34:10.180-08:00Wikipedia as the Front Matter to all Research for Public Use<br /><br /><br />Wikipedia is a initiative that has become extremely successful at providing encyclopedic coverage of almost any subject you might be find interesting or useful. It has a very simple modus operandi in that it permits anyone to write articles on any subject they wish. Others are then given open permission to edit those articles. No-one owns any part of the project, neutrality and freedom are Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6063682063606860126.post-46146010729880785912014-10-22T04:46:00.000-07:002018-12-14T15:34:08.543-08:00Fungi Transform Waste into Biofuel<br /><br />Wine waste<br /><br />This article was originally written by Lea Kivivali on Phys.org<br /><br />Researchers at Swinburne University of Technology have developed a technique for converting winery waste into compounds that could have potential value as biofuels or medicines.<br /><br /><br />Australia is the world's sixth largest wine producer, with around 1.75 million tonnes of grapes crushed for wine every year. After the finalUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6063682063606860126.post-2143962919846293642014-10-14T06:05:00.000-07:002018-12-14T15:34:06.969-08:00Omalizumab: a New Treatment Option for Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis (ABPA)<br /><br /><br /><br />ABPA is an allergic infection of the airways. It is not yet clear why some people get ABPA while most of us do not as the infecting mould is inhaled by nearly all of us on a daily basis. For most of us this is not a problem as our lungs are lined with protective immune cells that destroy the mould before its can establish itself, but for those rare few with ABPA this did not happen and the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6063682063606860126.post-15825315118327510402014-10-01T05:53:00.000-07:002018-12-14T15:34:06.575-08:00Detecting Fungus in the CF Patient Environment A Rising ConcernA recent paper released by the team here at the National Aspergillosis Centre has raised concern in the cystic fibrosis community that there may be many cases of Aspergillus infection amongst people living with CF that are going undetected.<br /><br />This article, originally written by Maureen Newman discusses the implications:<br /><br /><br />In light of the news that almost 50% of cystic fibrosis patients are Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6063682063606860126.post-51469862536562408152014-09-30T04:31:00.000-07:002018-12-14T15:34:09.198-08:00US IDSA Calls for Increased Emphasis on the Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance<br /><br /><br /><br />As we have all become used to taking antibiotics for infections we tend to take them for granted. However awareness is growing that more and more antibiotics are being rendered useless by the rise of strains of fungi & bacteria that are resistant to one or more antibiotics.<br /><br />Compounding the problem is the fact that few drug companies are voluntarily developing new antibiotics. One of the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0