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Acrodontium salmoneum

Reported to be fairly common airborne fungus and is considered to be allergenic. Can produce a trichothecene toxin which is toxic if ingested.  It was the primary fungus identified in at least two houses where the occupant complaints were nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea.  It can produce mycetomas, infections of the nails, onychomycosis, corneal ulcers, eumycotic mycetoma, endophthalmitis, meningitis, and endocarditis.  It is the asexual state of Emericellopsis sp. and Nectripsis sp.