Cryptococcus_laurentii

<i>Papiliotrema laurentii</i>

Papiliotrema laurentii

Species of fungus

Papiliotrema laurentii (synonym Cryptococcus laurentii) is a species of fungus in the family Rhynchogastremaceae. It is typically isolated in its yeast state.

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In its yeast state, it is a rare human pathogen, able to provoke a skin condition,[1] or fungemia in immunocompromised hosts.[2]

It can also be used as sole source of food for the rearing of Caenorhabditis elegans.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Cutaneous Cryptococcus laurentii infection in an immunocompetent child. Alejandro Molina-Leyva, Jose C. Ruiz-Carrascosa, Ana Leyva-Garcia and Husein Husein-Elahmed, International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 17, Issue 12, December 2013, Pages e1232-e1233, doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2013.04.017
  2. [2]
    Cryptococcus laurentii fungemia. Banerjee P, Haider M, Trehan V, Mishra B, Thakur A, Dogra V and Loomba P, Indian J Med Microbiol. 2013 Jan-Mar;31(1):75-7, doi:10.4103/0255-0857.108731
  3. [3]
    Killing of Caenorhabditis elegans by Cryptococcus neoformans as a model of yeast pathogenesis. Eleftherios Mylonakis, Frederick M. Ausubel, John R. Perfect, Joseph Heitman and Stephen B. Calderwood, PNAS 2002 November, 99 (24) 15675-15680, doi:10.1073/pnas.232568599


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