Penicillium

• The air and surfaces around you are home to multitudes of bacteria, fungi, viruses, mites, algae and protozoa.
• A lot of this fungal growth is what we call mould.
• But what do the myriad colours that appear on our stuff tell us about the world we try not to think about?

Black

• The concept of toxic black mould is one many people have become aware of due to flood impacts.
• Stachybotrys is the one known as toxic black mould.
• When the grout in your shower turns black though, that’s a different fungus called Aureobasidium.

Blue

• That blue orange I mentioned before, you can thank Penicillium for that.
• The organism that gives us blue cheese and the antibiotic penicillin is also responsible for producing a dense growth of mould that almost looks like smoke when disturbed, spreading millions of spores onto the rest of your fruit bowl.

Yellow and orange

• In fact, some need exposure to light – and ultraviolet (UV) light in particular – to complete their life cycle.
• They produce a spectrum of staining that can often turn damp items yellow, brown or orange.

Green

• We’re all fairly familiar with the green spots that turn up on mouldy bread, cake and other food items.
• The green tuft is often from a group of fungi called Aspergillus.
• In the green gang is also a fungus called Trichoderma, which is Latin for “hairy skin”.

Pink, purple and red

• Neurospora, also known as the red bread mould, is one of the most studied fungi in scientific literature.
• It’s another common, non-hazardous one that has been used as a model organism to observe fungal genetics, evolution and growth.
• Fusarium is less common indoors, being an important crop pathogen, but will sometimes turn spoiled rice purple.

White

• One of these was hyaline and non-hyaline, essentially referring to transparent and coloured, respectively.
• This fungus is a parasite of some moths and cicadas and is visible as brilliant white, tree-shaped growths on their unfortunate hosts.

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• Throughout history there have been pivotal moments that changed society, unlocked new potential, and altered the world as we knew it thereafter.
• In 1903, the Wright Brothers achieved the first airplane flight, claiming the skies for personal and commercial travel.
• In 1928, Doctor Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin, paving the way for research into antibiotics and revolutionising how we use medicine.

• Since individuals with a penicillin allergy label are given alternative antibiotic regimens, the researchers aimed to investigate if transplant patients with a penicillin allergy label would have worse outcomes from receiving alternative regimens.
• A retrospective analysis was done to compare outcomes between these patients to transplant patients treated for the same infections who did not have a penicillin allergy label.
• Compared to the control group, transplant patients with the penicillin allergy label had a higher rate of adverse effects from non-penicillin antibiotics (8.9% compared to 6.3%).
• The transplant patients with a penicillin allergy label also had a lower rate of infection with multi-drug resistant organisms (0.3% compared to 1%).