Posted by alexandra_k on January 28, 2020, at 20:33:52
In reply to Re: Tim Minchin » Beckett2, posted by alexandra_k on January 28, 2020, at 20:31:00
it is mould in the cold and fungus in the warm.
Apparently that is actually true.
So the same species that grows as a mould on the wall of your bathroom in the cold leaky house... Will grow as a fungus in your lungs.
They have two different morphologies / life phases or whatever.
As a mould they are relatively slow growing.
As a fungus they form fruiting bodies so as to seed little spores of fungus about your body.
Fungus particularly likes to live in little holes made by tuberculosis.
I think NZ is likely doing observational studies trying to contribute to the mycology literature.
There is a page on different fungus you find it different parts of the US...
Not sure what we have here. I have been going on about aspergillus -- but I don't know that that is the one that has been growing in people's houses. I think it's a different one...
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