Comparative Ecology of Capsular Exophiala Species Causing Disseminated Infection in Humans

Comparative Ecology of Capsular Exophiala Species Causing Disseminated Infection in Humans

Exophiala spinifera and Exophiala dermatitidis (Fungi: Chaetothyriales) are black yeast agents potentially causing disseminated infection in apparently healthy humans. They are the only Exophiala species producing extracellular polysaccharides around yeast cells. In order to gain understanding of ev...

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Main Authors: Yinggai Song, Wendy W. J. Laureijssen-van de Sande, Leandro F. Moreno, Bert Gerrits van den Ende, Ruoyu Li, Sybren de Hoog
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
black yeast
capsule
Exophiala species
virulence
pathogenicity
opportunism
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2017.02514/full

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