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Cannabis in Eswatini (Swaziland) is a traditional crop called insangu in Swazi. [1] The plant is subject to drug control and remains illegal in almost all cases. The local traditional plant variety (Cannabis strain) is known as "Swazi gold"; it is often bioprospected [2] and commands a high price due to its reputation for potency, [1] making it a genetic resource at risk of biopiracy.
Dermatophyte (from Greek δέρμα derma "skin" (GEN δέρματος dermatos) and φυτόν phyton "plant") [1] is a common label for a group of fungus of Arthrodermataceae that commonly causes skin disease in animals and humans. [2] Traditionally, these anamorphic (asexual or imperfect fungi) mold genera are: Microsporum, Epidermophyton ...
Microsporum gallinae has been isolated from the scalp, and smooth skin in human populations. [10] Microsporum gallinae infections are most commonly tinea capitis and tinea corporis. [3] Very few human cases of M. gallinae infection have been reported, none of which were life-threatening. [9] Of the reported cases, individuals ranged from 3–96 ...
Athlete's foot is a form of dermatophytosis (fungal infection of the skin), caused by dermatophytes, funguses (most of which are mold) which inhabit dead layers of skin and digest keratin. [2] Dermatophytes are anthropophilic , meaning these parasitic funguses prefer human hosts.
Epidermophyton floccosum is a filamentous fungus that causes skin and nail infections in humans. [1] This anthropophilic dermatophyte can lead to diseases such as tinea pedis (athlete's foot), tinea cruris , tinea corporis and onychomycosis .
Microsporum audouinii can be differentiated from non-sporulating strains of the similar M. canis by culture on autoclaved rice. Under these conditions, M. canis typically yields abundant growth and little to no pigmentation whereas M. audouinii produces no visible growth and abundant brown pigment on the rice grains. [ 16 ]
Epidermophyton is a genus of fungus causing superficial and cutaneous mycoses, including E. floccosum, and causes tinea corporis (ringworm), tinea cruris (jock itch), tinea pedis (athlete's foot), and tinea unguium (fungal infection of the nail bed).
Favus is the first human fungal disease in which a fungus was definitely identified (by J. L. Schönlein in 1839). The discovery was published in a brief note of twenty lines in Müllers Archiv for that year (p. 82). [3] In 1841, the Hungary-born French physician David Gruby independently described the fungus-associated favus.