Characterization of fungal communities on shared bicycles in Southwest China

BMC Microbiology

Table 1 Literature review on the pathogenicity of different fungi among handle, saddle and air specimens

Comparison	Species	Guild	Year (reference)	Affected area/disease	Positive rate^a	Age (year)/ gender	Risk factors
(H & Z) > A	Aspergillus pseudoglaucus	Animal Pathogen	1989 [13]	maxillary sinus	..	51/male	prolonged exposure to grain dust
			2012 [14]	skin(2), nail(3)/CAS	5/178	..	..
H > (Z & A)	Aureobasidium melanogenum	NA	2019 [14]	lung	..	79/male	contaminated bagpipe
			2016 [15]	face	..	46/male	NA
			2011 [16]	blood/fungemia	..	11/male	PLE, lymphopenia
(H & Z) > A	Kazachstania pintolopesii	NA	1987 [17]	oral/Leukoplakia	1/36	..	..
H > (Z & A)	Filobasidium magnum	NA	2011 [12]	nasal cavities	..	..	acute lymphoblastic leukemia
			2020 [18]	shoulder	..	68/male	Total Shoulder Arthroplasty
			2018 [18]	vaginal discharge	..	23/female	intra-uterine device
			2019 [19]	ear/otomycosis	..	35/female	ear canal trauma
(H & Z) > A	Candida tropicalis	Animal Pathogen-Endophyte-Undefined Saprotroph	2007 [20]	oral/Candidiasis	6/47	..	cancer
			2019 [21]	vagina/Candida vaginitis	35/197	..	..
			2011 [22]	chorion	..	28/female	pregnancy,cervical cerclage
			2020 [23]	skin/ Granuloma	..	57/male	lymphocytopenia
(H & Z) > A	Malassezia globosa	Animal Pathogen-Endophyte-Undefined Saprotroph	[24]..	skin	..	..	Excessive sebum secretion
			2014 [25]	oral	..	..	..
			2015 [26]	nasal vestibule	..	..	..

H Handle, S Saddle, A Air, NA No data available
^a: The detection rate in the corresponding disease specimens. CAS Clinical Aspergillus strains was further identified by sequencing, PLE Protein Losing Enteropathy

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