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SUBMITTER: Mostert L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1081309 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mostert Lizel L Groenewald Johannes Z JZ Summerbell Richard C RC Robert Vincent V Sutton Deanna A DA Padhye Arvind A AA Crous Pedro W PW
Journal of clinical microbiology 20050401 4
To date, three species of Phaeoacremonium have been associated with phaeohyphomycosis. These are P. parasiticum (formerly Phialophora parasitica), P. inflatipes, and P. rubrigenum. Numerous unknown isolates resembling Phaeoacremonium spp. have in recent years been isolated from human patients as well as from woody plants that appear to be the main environmental source of these fungi. Nine new Phaeoacremonium species, of which six were obtained as etiologic agents of human opportunistic infection ...[more]