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Feathers were collected directly from living poultry birds and studied for the prevalence of keratinophilic fungi on them. All the samples investigated were found to be positive and fourteen species of keratinophilic fungi in ten genera were isolated. Of these Malbranchea chrysosporoidea is a new addition to the Indian mycoflora.
Fourteen species of keratinophilic fungi belonging to ten genera (Chrysoporium, Malbranchea, Chaetomium,Sepedonium, Microascus, Scopulariopsis, Curvularia, Fusarium, Aspergillus, Penicillium) were isolated from feathers of about one hundred living poultry birds. The isolated fungi were compared for their keratinase activity after growing them on two different media: (1) basal salts solution containing...
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