Biology:Cryptococcus laurentii
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Short description: Species of fungus
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| Cryptococcus laurentii (Kuff.) C.E. Skinner, 1950[1]
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Cryptococcus laurentii is a species of yeasts.
It is also a rare human pathogen able to provoke cutaneous condition[7] or fungemia in immunocompromised hosts.[8]
It can also be used as sole source of food for the rearing of Caenorhabditis elegans.[9]
References
- ↑ C.E. Skinner, The American Midland Naturalist 43: 249 (1950)
- ↑ Kuff., Bulletin de la Société Royale des Sciences Médicales et Naturelles de Bruxelles 74: 38 (1920)
- ↑ Lodder, Verhandelingen Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen Afdeling Natuurkunde 32: 160 (1934)
- ↑ T. Haseg., Banno & Yamauchi, Journal of General and Applied Microbiology Tokyo 6 (3): 212 (1960)
- ↑ X.Z. Liu, F.Y. Bai, M. Groenew. & Boekhout, Studies in Mycology 81: 126 (2015)
- ↑ Mackenzie & Auret, Journal of General Microbiology 31 (2): 171 (1963)
- ↑ Cutaneous Cryptococcus laurentii infection in an immunocompetent child. Alejandro Molina-Leyva, Jose C. Ruiz-Carrascosa, Ana Leyva-Garcia and Husein Husein-Elahmed, International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 17, Issue 12, December 2013, Pages e1232-e1233, doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2013.04.017
- ↑ Cryptococcus laurentii fungemia. Banerjee P, Haider M, Trehan V, Mishra B, Thakur A, Dogra V and Loomba P, Indian J Med Microbiol. 2013 Jan-Mar;31(1):75-7, doi:10.4103/0255-0857.108731
- ↑ Killing of Caenorhabditis elegans by Cryptococcus neoformans as a model of yeast pathogenesis. Eleftherios Mylonakis, Frederick M. Ausubel, John R. Perfect, Joseph Heitman and Stephen B. Calderwood, PNAS 2002 November, 99 (24) 15675-15680, doi:10.1073/pnas.232568599
- Cryptococcus laurentii at MycoBank
Wikidata ☰ Q10462316 entry
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