Paracoccidioides


Paracoccidioides is a genus of fungi in the order Onygenales.[1] Species are known human pathogens producing yeast-like states under pathogenic conditions. They include the causative agents of paracoccidioidomycosis and lobomycosis.[2]

Paracoccidioides
Budding cells of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Eurotiomycetes
Order: Onygenales
Family: Ajellomycetaceae
Genus: Paracoccidioides
F.P. Almeida (1930)
Type species
Paracoccidioides brasiliensis
(Splend.) F.P. Almeida (1930)
Species

Paracoccidioides americana
Paracoccidioides brasiliensis
Paracoccidioides ceti
Paracoccidioides lobogeorgii
Paracoccidioides lutzii
Paracoccidioides restrepoana (nom. inval.)
Paracoccidioides venezuelensis (nom. inval.)


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. Vilela R, de Hoog S, Bensch K, Bagagli E, Mendoza L (2023). "A taxonomic review of the genus Paracoccidioides, with focus on the uncultivable species". PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 17. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0011220.


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