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COMPARATIVELY little is known about the micro-fungi normally present on the surface of native crêpe rubber. Brown1 isolated two chromogenic penicillia and a,Fusarium from discoloured areas of spotted crêpe. Fullerton2 attributed the spotting of smoked sheet and crêpe to species of Aspergillus, Penicillium, Fusarium and unidentified bacteria. Schade3 obtained Monascus ruber and M. purpureus from smoked sheet. More recently, Shaposhnikov et al.4 isolated four species of Aspergillus and three species of Penicillium from smoked sheet, and obtained vigorous growth from inoculations with other common surface moulds.
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TURNER, J., KENNEDY, M. Microflora of Creêpe Rubber. Nature 173, 506 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/173506a0
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