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Molds on house walls and the effect of their chloroform-extractable metabolites on the respiratory cilia movement of one-day-old chicksin vitro

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The ciliostatic activity of the chloroform-extractable endo- and exometabolites of 5 strains of filamentous fungi—Alternaria sp.,Aspergillus glaucus group,Aspergillus versicolor, Cladosporium sphœrospermum, Penicillium sp. andUlocladium sp.—isolated from molded walls of a dwelling—on tracheal cilia from 1-d-old chicksin vitro was evaluated. Endometabolites ofAlternaria sp. andA. versicolor and exometabolites ofUlocladium sp. were the most active, these extracts stopped the ciliary movement within 1 d. The results are discussed in relation to the health status of people living in “moldy” dwellings.

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Piecková, E., Jesenská, Z. Molds on house walls and the effect of their chloroform-extractable metabolites on the respiratory cilia movement of one-day-old chicksin vitro . Folia Microbiol 43, 672–678 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02816388

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