A. clavatus

ID: 9

Medically significant: yes

Classification agreed: y

Contentious not verified: n

In ncbi taxonomy database: y

Available from atcc: y

CBS: y

Previous CBS: unknown

Sexual CBS: unknown

Contentious name: unknown

Previous name, contentious name: unknown

Sexual form exists: unknown

Sexual form contentious name: n

Sexual form in ncbi taxonomy database: n

Previous name in NCBI taxonomy database: n

Previous name available at ATCC: unknown

Reference (original paper):

Desmazières, J.B.H.J. 1834. Descriptions et figures de six hyphomycètes inédites à ajouter à la flore Française. Annales des Sciences Naturelles Botanique. 2:69-73

Medical significance update: The First Case of Total Dystrophic Onychomycosis Caused by Aspergillus clavatus Resistant to Antifungal Drugs. Falahati M, Ghojoghi A, Abastabar M, Ghasemi Z, Farahyar S, Roudbary M, Hedayati MT, Armaki MT, Hoseinnejad A. Mycopathologia. 2016 Apr;181(3-4):273-7. doi: 10.1007/s11046-015-9954-6.

Taxonomic family: Fungi, Ascomycota, Pezizomycotina, Eurotiomycetes, Eurotiomycetidae, Eurotiales, Trichocomaceae, Aspergillus

Species images:

  • Isolate from environmental sample

    A. clavatus, A. clavatus, A. clavatus

  • A colour enhanced image.

    Clavatus300dpi

  • A Colonies on MEA after one week;B conidial heads and tip of conidiophore, x 230; C conidial head, x920; E conidial head, x920. Copyright B.Flannigan, R Samson & JD Miller (From Microorganisms in home and indoor work environments, Published by Taylor and Francis)

    microclavatus

  • microscopic characters Conidiophore stipes(C)1300-2800um long:Vesicles(V)40-70um wide,clavate:Phialides(Ph) uniseriate:Conidia(Con)3.5-4.0um long,smooth walled.

    AclavcP2

  • growing on contaminated barley malt. The deep blue-green heads made up of chains of conidia are seen on the left. On the right, conidiophores from which conidial chains are developed show typical clavate heads. Stain- Cotton blue in Lactophenol.

    aclavcorel

  • Left= an agar air plate exposed for 2 minutes after the barley had been turned. showing numerous colonies of the fungus following incubation at 26C on 2% malt agar.Right= A sputum sample taken from a maltworker after exposure showing many fungal colonies when cultured on agar. His commensal yeast flora is seen towards the right base as cream/white colonies.

    airsput

Currently accepted name (anamorph): A. clavatus

Index Fungorum: Link

Mycobank: Link

Taxonomic family: Fungi, Ascomycota, Pezizomycotina, Eurotiomycetes, Eurotiomycetidae, Eurotiales, Trichocomaceae, Aspergillus

Computed content type (Species): Species


Species

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  • Horie, Y. 1978. A new species of Emericella from India herbal drug. Transactions of the Mycological Society of Japan. 19:313

  • Samson, R.A.; Mouchacca, J. 1975. Additional notes on species of Aspergillus, Eurotium and Emericella from Egyptian desert soil. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 41(3):350

  • Novel indoloditerpenes, emindoles, and their related compounds from Emericella spp. Nozawa, Kohei; Nakajima, Seiichi; Kawai, Kenichi; Udagawa, Shunichi; Horie, Yoshikazu; Yamazaki, Mikio. Tennen Yuki Kagobutsu Toronkai Koen Yoshishu (1987), 29, 637-43

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  • Benjamin, C.R. 1955. Ascocarps of Aspergillus and Penicillium. Mycologia. 47:680

  • Production of carcinogenic mycotoxins, sterigmatocystin and its allied compounds, by Emericella species. Horie, Yoshikazu; Yamazaki, Mikio. Transactions of the Mycological Society of Japan (1985), 26(3), 411-19.

  • Benzaldehyde derivatives from a marine-​derived fungus Aspergillus sp. Huang, Yuling; Ma, Liying; Rong, Xianguo; Liu, Desheng; Liu, Shaojun; Liu, Weizhong. Zhongcaoyao (2012), 43(5), 837-840

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  • Link, H.F. 1809. Observationes in ordines plantarum naturales. Dissertatio I. Magazin der Gesellschaft Naturforschenden Freunde Berlin. 3:3-42
    Antioxidants produced by Eurotium herbariorum of filamentous fungi used for the manufacture of karebushi, dried bonito (Katsuobushi). Miyake, Yoshiaki; Ito, Chihiro; Itoigawa, Masataka; Osawa, Toshihiko. Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry (2009), 73(6), 1323-1327.

  • Ohtsuki, T. 1962. Studies on the glass mould: On two species of Aspergillus isolated from glass. Botanical Magazine Tokyo. 75:438

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  • Blaser, P. 1976. Taxonomische und physiologische Untersuchungen uber die Gattung Eurotium Link. ex Fr. Sydowia. 28:1-49

  • Sasaki, Y. 1950. A study of molds in butter. Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture of the Hokkaido Imperial University. 49:121-249