Emergomyces


Emergomyces is a genus of fungi in the order Onygenales. Species are known human pathogens and show thermal dimorphism, converting from hyphal states under saprobic conditions to yeast-like states under pathogenic conditions. They are the causative agents of emergomycosis, a systemic mycosis in immunocompromised patients.[1][2] The name Emergomyces refers to these newly emerging mycoses, only encountered in the last few decades.[3]

Emergomyces
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Eurotiomycetes
Order: Onygenales
Family: Ajellomycetaceae
Genus: Emergomyces
Dukik, Sigler & de Hoog (2017)
Type species
Emergomyces pasteurianus
(Drouhet, E. Guého & Gori) Dukik, Sigler & de Hoog (2017)
Species

Emergomyces africanus Emergomyces canadensis Emergomyces crescens Emergomyces europaeus Emergomyces orientalis Emergomyces pasteurianus Emergomyces soli


References
  1. Jiang Y, Dukik K, Munoz JF, Sigler L, Schwartz IS, Govender NP, Kenyon C, Feng P, van den Ende BG, Stielow JB, Stchigel AM, Lu H, de Hoog S (2018). "Phylogeny, ecology and taxonomy of systemic pathogens and their relatives in Ajellomycetaceae (Onygenales): Blastomyces, Emergomyces, Emmonsia, Emmonsiellopsis". Fungal Diversity. 90: 245–291. doi:10.1007/s13225-018-0403-y.
  2. Schwartz IS, Maphanga TG, Govender NP (2018). "Emergomyces: a new genus of dimorphic fungal pathogens causing disseminated disease among immunocompromised persons globally". Curr Fungal Infect Rep. 12: 44–50. doi:10.1007/s12281-018-0308-y.
  3. Dukik K, Muñoz JF, Jiang Y, Feng P, Sigler L, Stielow JB, Freeke J, Jamalian A, Gerrits van den Ende B, McEwen JG, Clay OK, Schwartz IS, Govender NP, Maphanga TG, Cuomo CA, Moreno LF, Kenyon C, Borman AM, de Hoog S (2017). "Novel taxa of thermally dimorphic systemic pathogens in the Ajellomycetaceae (Onygenales)". Mycoses. 60: 296–309. doi:10.1111/myc.12601. PMID 28176377.
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