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In a three-year experiment we studied mycobiota of 24 samples of flax and 45 samples of cotton processed in Slovak textile factories. We isolated 12.2×106(on average) cfu of microfungi per 1 g of flax samples and 3.3×105 (on average) cfu of micromycetes per 1 g of cotton samples. We also studied the ciliostatic activity of metabolites of isolated filamentous fungi on tracheal cultures of 1-day-old chicks in vitro. Twenty-nine percent of 116 investigated chloroform extracts of metabolites of microfungi isolated from flax samples stopped the cilia movement and 25% of 195 had ciliostatic activity during 72 h of experiment.
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Piecková, E., Jesenská, Z. Filamentous microfungi in raw flax and cotton for textile industry and their ciliostatic activity on tracheal organ cultures in vitro . Mycopathologia 134, 91–96 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00436870
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