TY - JOUR A2 - Elad, Daniel AU - Deshmukh, Sunil Kumar AU - Verekar, Shilpa Amit PY - 2014 DA - 2014/11/10 TI - Incidence of Keratinophilic Fungi from Selected Soils of Vidarbha Region of Maharashtra State, India SP - 148970 VL - 2014 AB - One hundred and fifty samples were collected from eleven districts of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra state and screened for the presence of keratinophilic fungi using hair baiting technique for isolation. Seventy-one isolates were recovered and identified. The cultures were identified using macro- and micromorphological features. Their identification was also confirmed by the BLAST search of sequences of the ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 rDNA region against the NCBI/Genbank data and compared with deposited sequences for identification purpose. Thirteen species of eight genera were isolated, namely, Auxarthron conjugatum (2.00%), Chrysosporium indicum (14.00%), Chrysosporium evolceanui (2.66%), Chrysosporium tropicum (4.66%), Chrysosporium zonatum (1.33%), Chrysosporium state of Ctenomyces serratus (3.33%), Gymnascella dankaliensis (1.33%), Gymnascella hyalinospora (0.66%), Gymnoascoideus petalosporus (0.66%), Microsporum gypseum complex (9.33%), Trichophyton mentagrophytes (2.00%), T. terrestre (3.33%), and Uncinocarpus queenslandicus (2.00%). This study indicates that the soils of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra may be significant reservoirs of certain keratinophilic fungi. SN - 2356-7481 UR - https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/148970 DO - 10.1155/2014/148970 JF - Journal of Mycology PB - Hindawi Publishing Corporation KW - ER -