Genomic Understanding of an Infectious Brain Disease from the Desert

Genomic Understanding of an Infectious Brain Disease from the Desert

Rhinocladiella mackenziei accounts for the majority of fungal brain infections in the Middle East, and is restricted to the arid climate zone between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Neurotropic dissemination caused by this fungus has been reported in immunocompromised, but also immunocompetent individual...

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Main Authors: Leandro F. Moreno, Abdalla A. O. Ahmed, Balázs Brankovics, Christina A. Cuomo, Steph B. J. Menken, Saad J. Taj-Aldeen, Hani Faidah, J. Benjamin Stielow, Marcus de M. Teixeira, Francesc X. Prenafeta-Boldú, Vania A. Vicente, Sybren de Hoog
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2018-03-01
Series:G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics
Subjects:
black yeast
comparative genomics
Chaetothyriales
cerebral phaeohyphomycosis
Online Access:http://g3journal.org/lookup/doi/10.1534/g3.117.300421

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http://g3journal.org/lookup/doi/10.1534/g3.117.300421

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