Keratinolytic fungi of wadi Qena in Egypt

Abstract
Forty-six soil samples collected from different sites of wadi Qena were examined for keratinophilic fungi using the hair baiting technique. Thirty-two species in addition to one variety of each ofA. nidulans andA. flavus which belong to eighteen genera were recovered.Aspergillus, Chrysosporium, Penicillium, Microsporum andFusarium were the most frequent genera developed from baited soils.