Título : Importance of Resolving Fungal Nomenclature: the Case of Multiple Pathogenic Species in the Cryptococcus Genus |
Autor : Hagen, Ferry Lumbsch, Thorsten  ARSIC ARSENIJEVIC, VALENTINA  Badali, Hamid  Bertout, Sebastien Billmyre, R. Blake  Bragulat, M. Rosa  Cabañes, F. Javier Carbia, Mauricio  Chakrabarti, Arunaloke  CHATURVEDI, SUDHA  Chaturvedi, Vishnu Chen, Min Chowdhary, Anuradha  Colom Valiente, María Francisca  Cornely, Oliver  Crous, Pedro  Cuétara, María S. Diaz, Mara R Espinel-Ingroff, Ana Fakhim, Hamed  Falk, Rama  Fang, Wenjie  Herkert, Patricia F.  Ferrer Rodríguez, Consuelo Fraser, James  Gené, Josepa  Guarro, Josep  Idnurm, Alexander  Illnait-Zaragozí, María Teresa  Khayhan, Kantarawee  Khayhan, Kantarawee  Kolecka, Anna  Kurtzman, Cletus  Lagrou, Katrien  Liao, Wanqing Linares, Carlos Meis, Jacques  Nielsen, Kirsten Nyazika, Tinashe K.  Pan, Weihua Perkmezovic, Marina Polacheck, Itzhack  Posteraro, Brunella Queiroz-Telles, Flavio  Romeo, Orazio  Sanchez, Manuel Sampaio, Ana  Sanguinetti, Maurizio  Sriburee, Pojana Sugita, Takashi  Taj-Aldeen, Saad Takashima, Masako  Taylor, John W. Theelen, Bart  Tomazin, Rok  Verweij, Paul  Wahyuningsih, Retno Wang, Ping Boekhout, Teunis  |
Editor : American Society for Microbiology |
Departamento: Departamentos de la UMH::Producción Vegetal y Microbiología |
Fecha de publicación: 2017-08-30 |
URI : https://hdl.handle.net/11000/34891 |
Resumen :
Cryptococcosis is a major fungal disease caused by members of the Cryptococcus gattii and Cryptococcus neoformans species complexes. After more than 15 years of molecular genetic and phenotypic studies and much debate, a proposal for a taxonomic revision was made. The two varieties within C. neoformans were raised to species level, and the same was done for five genotypes within C. gattii. In a recent perspective (K. J. Kwon-Chung et al., mSphere 2:e00357-16, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00357-16 ), it was argued that this taxonomic proposal was premature and without consensus in the community. Although the authors of the perspective recognized the existence of genetic diversity, they preferred the use of the informal nomenclature “C. neoformans species complex” and “C. gattii species complex.” Here we highlight the advantage of recognizing these seven species, as ignoring these species will impede deciphering further biologically and clinically relevant differences between them, which may in turn delay future clinical advances
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Palabras clave/Materias: Cryptococcus Cryptococcosis Diagnostics Species delimitation Taxonomy |
Tipo de documento : info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos de acceso: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional |
DOI : https://doi.org/10.1128/msphere.00238-17 |
Aparece en las colecciones: Artículos Producción vegetal y microbiología
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