Biology:Emergomyces

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Short description: Genus of fungi

Emergomyces
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Eurotiomycetes
Order: Onygenales
Family: Ajellomycetaceae
Genus: Emergomyces
Dukik, Sigler & de Hoog (2017)
Type species
Emergomyces pasteurianus
(Drouhet, E. Guého & Gori) Dukik, Sigler & de Hoog (2017)
Species

Emergomyces africanus Emergomyces canadensis Emergomyces crescens Emergomyces europaeus Emergomyces orientalis Emergomyces pasteurianus Emergomyces soli

Emergomyces is a genus of fungi in the order Onygenales. Species are known human pathogens and show thermal dimorphism, converting from hyphal states under saprobic conditions to yeast-like states under pathogenic conditions. They are the causative agents of emergomycosis, a systemic mycosis in immunocompromised patients.[1][2] The name Emergomyces refers to these newly emerging mycoses, only encountered in the last few decades.[3]

References

  1. "Phylogeny, ecology and taxonomy of systemic pathogens and their relatives in Ajellomycetaceae (Onygenales): Blastomyces, Emergomyces, Emmonsia, Emmonsiellopsis". Fungal Diversity 90: 245–291. 2018. doi:10.1007/s13225-018-0403-y. 
  2. "Emergomyces: a new genus of dimorphic fungal pathogens causing disseminated disease among immunocompromised persons globally". Curr Fungal Infect Rep 12: 44–50. 2018. doi:10.1007/s12281-018-0308-y. 
  3. "Novel taxa of thermally dimorphic systemic pathogens in the Ajellomycetaceae (Onygenales)". Mycoses 60: 296–309. 2017. doi:10.1111/myc.12601. PMID 28176377. 

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