Apiotrichum

Apiotrichum is a genus of fungi in the family Trichosporonaceae. Species are only known from their yeast states, most of which were formerly referred to the genus Trichosporon. Twenty species have been described worldwide.[1] Apiotrichum mycotoxinivorans is an occasional human pathogen.[2]

Apiotrichum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Tremellomycetes
Order: Trichosporonales
Family: Trichosporonaceae
Genus: Apiotrichum
Stautz (1931)
Type species
Apiotrichum porosum
Stautz
Synonyms

Hyalodendron
Protendomycopsis

References

  1. Liu XZ, Wang QM, Göker M, Groenewald M, Kachalkin AV, Lumbsch HT, Millanes AM, Wedin M, Yurkov AM, Boekhout T, Bai FY (2015). "Towards an integrated phylogenetic classification of the Tremellomycetes". Studies in Mycology. 81: 85–147. doi:10.1016/j.simyco.2015.12.001.
  2. Hickey, P. W.; Sutton, D. A.; Fothergill, A. W.; Rinaldi, M. G.; Wickes, B. L.; Schmidt, H. J.; Walsh, T. J. (2009). "Trichosporon mycotoxinivorans, a Novel Respiratory Pathogen in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis". Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 47 (10): 3091–3097. doi:10.1128/JCM.00460-09. ISSN 0095-1137. PMC 2756937. PMID 19656976.
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