Year: 2009

The use of reusable food containers and carry devices for groceries is an important, to date overlooked piece in the study of the safety of the food supply in Canada. There has been little to no testing to investigate the public health implications of reusable bags, yet increasingly reusables are being advanced as a viable […]

The March 2009 issue of MICROBE magazine, the news publication of the prestigious American Society for Microbiology, included a feature article by noted international science writer and former editor of Nature Biotechnology, Dr. Bernard Dixon, summarizing our recent work on the newly described, ethanol-loving fungal genus Baudoinia. View the full PDF article >

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This test provides a low-level identification of a pure fungal culture by sequencing of portions of the nuclear ribosomal gene, specifically the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region or other gene regions deemed most suitable based on preliminary culture and microscopic screening. Although it is not always possible to recover fungi in pure culture in order […]

Blastomyces is a genus of dimorphic fungi that can cause a disease called blastomycosis in humans and other animals. Species of Blastomyces exist in the environment in a filamentous form and can produce infectious spores that can be inhaled. Once inside the body, the spores transform into yeast-like cells that can cause localized or disseminated […]