Clinical Microbiology and Mycotoxins

Identification and characterization of Mycotoxins

Mycotoxins is category of pharmacologically active mould metabolites produced in a very strain-specific method. Mycotoxins might even be described as secondary metabolites produced by a wide variety of organisms categorized as fungi, including mushrooms, yeasts and molds. The term 'mycotoxin' is usually reserved for the harmful chemical products produced by fungi that readily colonize crops.One mould species might produce many different mycotoxins, and several other species might produce a similar phytotoxin.