Descriptional features of fungal isolates

S/N	Colour	Consistency	Microscopy features	Lactophenol cotton blue	Suspected fungal isolate
1	Nearly green	Grey fluffy mycelium	chains of single cell Conidia spherical, rod and regular in size	+	Penicillium species
2	Greenish brown, white to black	Rough walled forming long dry chain	Flask Shaped Phialides, Conidia in chain and branching at 450c	+	Aspergillus species
3	Whitish to grayish	Dark, rough raised	Brand hyphal freely spread irregular and ribbon like	+	Mucor species
4	Pale brown to dark brown	Fluty, rose or purple pigment on surface	Irregular Conidiosphore and in Clusters	+	Fusarium species
5	Black	Cotton like	Irregular      sporangiosphore, contains root like Rhizoids	+	Rhizopus species

Percentage frequency of occurrence of fungi isolated from fresh shrimp from vendor A, B and C.

Vendors	Aspergillus species	Penicillium species	Mucor species	Fusarium species	Rhizopus species
A	8(25%)	7(21.9%)	5(15.6%)	8(25%)	4(12.5%)
B	7(28%)	5(20%)	5(20%)	4(16%)	4(16%)
C	7(27%)	6(23%)	6(23.1%)	4(15.4%)	3(11.5%)

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