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SUBMITTER: Westmeier D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6142250 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20180620 27
Airborne fungal pathogens, predominantly <i>Aspergillus fumigatus</i>, can cause severe respiratory tract diseases. Here we show that in environments, fungal spores can already be decorated with nanoparticles. Using representative controlled nanoparticle models, we demonstrate that various nanoparticles, but not microparticles, rapidly and stably associate with spores, without specific functionalization. Nanoparticle-spore complex formation was enhanced by small nanoparticle size rather than by ...[more]