Table 2 Fungal and candidal strains and their effects

Black mold on certain fruits and vegetables, contaminant of food, aspergillosis, otomycosis, damage to the ear canal and tympanic membrane.

Damping off on certain fruits and vegetables, keratitis, endophthalmitis, cutaneous infections, burn patients, mycetoma, onychomycosis, sinusitis, pulmonary disease, endocarditis, catheter infections, and septic arthritis

Winegrower’s lung, Hypersensitivity pneumonitis, Grey mould affects many plant species

Candidiasis, opportunistic oral and genital infections

Pathogen for the urogenital tract, and for the bloodstream (fungemia)

Fungemia, nosocomial pathogen