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DURING a study of the fungal succession occurring on hair decomposing in contact with soil, it has become apparent that hair, either autoclaved or sterilized with propylene oxide, can support the limited growth of many fungi which are not keratinolytic. Thus species of Mortierella, Cunninghamella and Chaetomium, as well as of many genera of the Fungi Imperfecti, for example, Aspergillus, Gliocladium, Penicillium, Alternaria, Curvularia, Epicoccum, Helminihosporium, Phoma, Pyrenochaeta, grow sparsely on the hair surface and produce spores there.
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GRIFFIN, D. Hair as a Substrate for Non-Keratinolytic Fungi. Nature 183, 1281 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1831281a0
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