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Pure cultures are obtained from a commercial or private culture collection for these studies. Shrivastava eta/. [23] surveyed 10 fungal isolates to see which would degrade wool. Pranamuda and Tokiwa [50] obtained 25 strains of Amycolatopsis and tested their abilities to degrade poly(L-lactide). Ohkawa et al. [22] used seven fungal species to study the biodegradation of chitosan-gellan and poly(L-lysine)-gellan. 

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