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Isolation and identification of toxigenic fungi from foodstuffs at Sohag Governorate, Egypt

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Last updated: 23 Jan 2023

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Food
Microbiology
Toxins

Abstract

The common fungi contaminated different 25 foodstuffs collected from Sohag Governorate were isolated and their ability to produce mycotoxins were examined. A total of 150 fungal isolates belonging to 57 species in addition to two species varieties of 13 genera were isolated and identified. The genus Aspergillus was represented by 23 species in addition to two species-varieties followed by Penicillium which was represented by 11 species. The genus Fusarium was represented by 6 species followed by Alternaria (4), Mucor (3), Trichoderma (2) and Achremonium (2 species). The remaining 6 genera were represented by only one species for each genus. All the 150 collected fungal isolates were screened for their ability to produce mycotoxins. The results indicated that 53 out of the 150 fungal isolates (35%) were able to produce one or more of eight mycotoxins (aflatoxin, ochratoxin, fuminisin, sterigmatocystin, patulin, zearalenone, alternariol and diacetoxyscirpenol).

DOI

10.21608/jesj.2014.195780

Keywords

food sources, moulds, Mycotoxins

Authors

First Name

Abdel-Naser

Last Name

Zohri

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.

Email

zohriassuit@yahoo.com

City

Assiut

Orcid

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First Name

Sabah

Last Name

Mohamed

MiddleName

Saber

Affiliation

Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, Sohag 82524, Egypt.

Email

sabahm3000@yahoo.com

City

Sohag

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Youssef

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, Sohag 82524, Egypt.

Email

youssefm2006@yahoo.com

City

Sohag

Orcid

-

First Name

Marwa

Last Name

Abdel-Kareem

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, Sohag 82524, Egypt.

Email

marwaabdelkareem7@gmail.com

City

Sohag

Orcid

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Volume

13

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

27777

Issue Date

2014-12-01

Receive Date

2014-03-01

Publish Date

2014-12-30

Page Start

1

Page End

12

Print ISSN

2314-5579

Online ISSN

2682-3942

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https://jesj.journals.ekb.eg/article_195780.html

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1,869

Publication Type

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Publication Title

Journal of Environmental Studies

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https://jesj.journals.ekb.eg/

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23 Jan 2023