Exophiala dermatitidis: Key issues of an opportunistic fungal pathogen

The black yeast Exophiala dermatitidis is an opportunistic pathogen, causing phaeohyphomycosis in immunosuppressed patients, chromoblastomycosis and fatal infections of the central nervous system in otherwise healthy Asian patients. In addition, it is also regularly isolated from respiratory samples...

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Main Authors: Lisa Kirchhoff, Maike Olsowski, Peter-Michael Rath, Joerg Steinmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2019-01-01
Series:Virulence
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21505594.2019.1596504