ENUMERATION OF TERRESTRIAL MYCOBIOTA AND AFLATOXININ DRINKING WATER

摘要

Aflatoxins, one of the major mycotoxins have received considerable attention in recent years due to their hepatocarcinogenic nature. In the present study, we have isolated 13 different fungi from sources of drinking water viz., river water, well water, bore water, metro water and can water using 3 different media namely czapex dox agar, malt extract agar, tap water agar. Five isolates of Aspergillus flavus, isolated from the drinking water samples were further screened for its production of aflatoxinby TLC, HPTLC, IR and quantified by HPLC. This ranged from 0.00052 to 0.00075 ug/L.