Paracoccidioides brasiliensis

Paracoccidioides brasiliensis

Taxobox
name = "Paracoccidioides brasiliensis"



image_width = 240px
regnum = Fungi
phylum = Ascomycota
subphylum = Ascomycotina
classis = Eurotiomycetes
ordo = Onygenales
familia = Ajellomycetaceae
genus = "Paracoccidioides"
species = "P. brasiliensis"
binomial = "Paracoccidioides brasiliensis"

"Paracoccidioides brasiliensis" is a dimorphic species of fungus responsible for paracoccidioidomycosis.cite book | author = Ryan KJ, Ray CG (editors) | title = Sherris Medical Microbiology | edition = 4th ed. | publisher = McGraw Hill | year = 2004 | pages = p. 683 |isbn = 0838585299 ] While the route of infection is assumed to be via inhalation, the environmental habit of "P. brasiliensis" is unknown. [cite journal |author=Restrepo A, McEwen JG, Castañeda E |title=The habitat of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis: how far from solving the riddle? |journal=Med. Mycol. |volume=39 |issue=3 |pages=233–41 |year=2001 |pmid=11446526 |doi=] Notably, the organism produces multiple blastoconidia from a single cell.

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* http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/jan2005.html
* http://speciesfungorum.org/Names/NamesRecord.asp?RecordID=258811


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