Paracoccidioides brasiliensis

Paracoccidioides brasiliensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Eurotiomycetes
Order: Onygenales
Family: Ajellomycetaceae
Genus: Paracoccidioides
Species:
P. brasiliensis
Binomial name
Paracoccidioides brasiliensis
Synonyms

Zymonema brasiliensis Splend. (1912)
Coccidioides brasiliensis F.P.Almeida (1929)

Paracoccidioides brasiliensis is a dimorphic fungus and one of the two species that cause paracoccidioidomycosis (the other being Paracoccidioides lutzii).[1][2][3][4] The fungus has been affiliated with the family Ajellomycetaceae (division Ascomycota) although a sexual state or teleomorph has not yet been found.[5]

  1. ^ Martinez, Roberto; Moretti, Maria Luiza; Camargo, Zoilo Pires de; Khoury, Zarifa; Durlacher, Rui Rafael; Hahn, Rosane; Cavalcante, Ricardo de Souza; Pereira, Ricardo Mendes; Silva-Vergara, Mario León (September 2017). "Brazilian guidelines for the clinical management of paracoccidioidomycosis". Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical. 50 (5): 715–740. doi:10.1590/0037-8682-0230-2017. hdl:11449/163455. ISSN 0037-8682. PMID 28746570.
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