(1) A great number of organisms characteristic of certain degrees of pollution were classified in the "saprobic system", which is still valid.
(2) An immunodiffusion technique was used to evaluate the antigenic relationship of various pathogenic and saprobic Basidiobolus spp., Conidiobolus spp., isolates of the order Mucorales, and several other medically important nonzygomycetous fungi.
(3) Recently, reports have surfaced in which saprobic fungi, as well as fungi pathogenic for plants, seem to be evolving as human pathogens.
(4) Seventy yeast strains, representative of twenty-six ascogenous genera, four saprobic hemibasidiomycetous genera and thirteen genera of the Cryptococcales were tested for their reaction with the stabilized aromatic diazonium compound, Diazonium Blue B salt.
(5) Norms of microbiological (coliform titre, nitrification titre, urea hydrolysis titre, number of bacteria, BOD2 and BOD5), hydrobiological (intensity of photosynthesis, saprobic index, number of algae) and chemical (oxidability, DMDT content) characteristics, determining the ecological quality of water, are suggested.
(6) Curvularia lunata is a saprobic dematiaceous mould that resides primarily in soil (Ellis, 1966).
(7) We showed that immunolabel was localized in the cell wall of both the saprobic and parasitic phases but was most concentrated in the wall of the segmentation apparatus of spherules just prior to endospore differentiation.
(8) The effect of leaf exudate and leaf, root, and tuber extracts on the germination of the conidia of three saprobic fungi, viz., Curvalaria sp., Alternaria sp., and Helminthosporium sp.
(9) Two methods were tested in order to determine the existence of in vitro antagonism among saprobic and pathogenic fungi.
(10) The comparison of the described findings with the trophic-systems of HUTCHINSON, NYGAARD and RAWSON indicated an eutrophic type of lake; classification according to the types of the various saprobic systems of NAUMANN, KOLKWITZ and LIEBMANN yielded a predominantly beta-mesosaprobic type of lake.
(11) Pityrosporum ovale is an episaprophyte - but most mycoses are caused by fungi which have an exosaprophytic (or exosaprobic) life: one becomes infected after exposure to the saprobic source of the fungus.
(12) The great differences in the individual value of both groups seem, however, to make it possible that the determination of the relation of the aerogenic Aeromonads to the anerogenic could show a more sensitive system of waste contamination or of waste load than the saprobic system used in comparison.
(13) Yeasts originating in the preputial cavity were generally saprobic members of the genera Candida, Cryptococcus, Rhodotorula, Saccharomyces, Torulopsis and Trichosporon.
(14) H. capsulatum is the most extensively studied of the dimorphic fungi, with a parasitic phase consisting of yeast cells and a saprobic mycelial phase.
(15) The saprobes, A. bisexualis and Cladosporium sp., demonstrated acquired resistance.
(16) The titres of physiological processes in bacteria (hydrolysis of urea, nitrification), total number of bacteria and photosynthesis were found to show high correlation with standard characteristics: BOD5 and saprobic index.
(17) Some of the factors contributing to these difficulties include the abrogation of the immune response associated with improved medical technology, the impact of AIDS, the invasion of the immunocompromised host by fungi previously considered to be saprobic, and the minimal mycologic training of medical personnel.
(18) Coccidioides immitis is a unique fungal pathogen, characterized by a saprobic mycelial phase that gives rise to infectious arthroconidia which in host tissue, convert into a morphologically distinct spherule-endospore phase.
(19) farciminosum, Blastomyces dermatitidis, Coccidioides immitis, Paracoccidioides brasiliensis, and morphologically related saprobic fungi.
(20) neoformans has been persistently demonstrated in the saprobic environment of caged munia birds at a local zoological garden.
Saprophyte
Definition:
(n.) Any plant growing on decayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aspergillomas generally arise from saprophytic colonization of a pre-existing pulmonary cavity with Aspergillus, and may be complicated by life-threatening hemoptosis.
(2) Corynebacterium D2, a saprophytic microorganism of skin, causes alkaline encrusted cystitis in patients with a previous bladder injury.
(3) These and other physiological characteristics are discussed in relation to the roles that T. fusca carries out as a saprophytic bacterium in nature.
(4) We believe this is the first reported case of such infection due to this normally saprophytic agent.
(5) In order to determine the presence of dermatophytes and saprophytes in healthy toe and finger nails, 120 students (60 male and 60 female) from preparatory schools at Sohag Governorate (Upper Egypt) were studied.
(6) The increased inhibitory levels required for the atypical and saprophytic species are due to a decreased affinity of the target site for INH in these species.
(7) Flagella extracted from five serovars, representative of the pathogenic and saprophytic species of the Leptospiraceae, were morphologically similar.
(8) Proliferation of the saprophytic strains G-45, K-1028 (serovar not identified) and of the pathogenic strain VGNKI-3 (serovar canicola) of Leptospirae was obtained on a serum-free medium with the addition of saturated fatty acids.
(9) In addition to the chemical contaminants, 21 mould genera and species, six mite species and numerous saprophytic and some pathogenic bacteria were demonstrated in stable dust samples in our earlier experiments.
(10) flexneri, and saprophytic, staphylococci labeled with radioactive isotopes was studied in vitro.
(11) The major opportunists among Canidida, Aspergillus, Mucor, Absidia and Cryptococcus species are presented in local and disseminated lesions, but all fungi, saprophytic in the normal host, can become pathogens in the immunodepressed patient.
(12) The occurrence of saprophytic fungi on hair and feathers samples taken from apparently healthy domestic animals (cows, pigs, rabbits, and chickens) has been studied.
(13) Streptomyces species include a group of aerobic actinomycetes that are generally considered to be saprophytes.
(14) Thirty-two clinical specimens submitted to the laboratory during a 12-month period from July 1980 to June 1981 were reported to be culture-positive for Mycobacterium gordonae, an organism generally considered to be a slow-growing saprophyte with natural habitats which include soil and water.
(15) I could be recommended to reconsider whether the strain belongs to L. interrogans, L. biflexa or to another group because the grounds for L. andamana being saprophytic were denied by this report.
(16) With an inoculum yielding approximately 8 x 10(7) cells per ml in the test medium and an incubation temperature of 13 C, the saprophytic leptospires were easily differentiated from the pathogenic leptospires.
(17) Two plasmids, one containing tryptophan biosynthesis genes and the other the NADP-glutamate dehydrogenase gene from the saprophytic basidiomycete Coprinus cinereus, were successfully introduced into the H. cylindrosporum genome with up to 70% efficiency of co-transformation.
(18) Electrophoresis in gel from polyacrylamide was used to study the water-soluble intracellular esterases, triton-X 100-extracted and proteins of three saprophytic and three pathogenic strains of leptospirae belonging to different serological types.
(19) Aromatic-pathway-encoded cistrons present in saprophytic large-genome mycoplasmas may have been eliminated in the parasitic small-genome mycoplasmas.
(20) The saprophyte Hendersonula toruloidea as well as other fungi and yeasts reported to cause such infections have been shown to be clinically indistinguishable from classic dermatophytic "athlete's foot."