On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:13:10 -0400, Stan Sandler <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>So does this strain of fumigatus come from stonebrood Peter?

I don't know where it came from originally. The whole aspergillus thing is
extremely complex since aspergillus spp cause severe illness in humans as
well as other organisms. 

Pulmonary aspergillosis

The condition was first described by Hughes Bennett in 1842. The early
records of such infection were typically of infections taking hold in
patients who already had suffered substantial lung damage from tuberculosis,
but in the 1890s, several cases had been documented where it seemed that
aspergillus was the primary infection: aspergillus as the cause of the lung
disease, not an infection taking hold in an already diseased lung (Wahl &amp;
Erickson, 1928). By 1928, there were fifty-four cases covered in medical
literature.

see:
http://www.aspergillus.org.uk/index.html

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