Paracoccidioides
| Paracoccidioides | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Budding cells of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Eurotiomycetes |
| Order: | Onygenales |
| Family: | Ajellomycetaceae |
| Genus: | F.P. Almeida (1930) |
| Type species | |
| Paracoccidioides brasiliensis (Splend.) F.P. Almeida (1930) | |
| Species | |
| Paracoccidioides americana | |
Paracoccidioides is a genus of fungi in the order Onygenales.[1] Species are known human pathogens producing yeast-like states under pathogenic conditions. They include the causative agents of paracoccidioidomycosis and lobomycosis.[2]
References
- ^ Jiang Y, Dukik K, Munoz JF, Sigler L, Schwartz IS, Govender NP, Kenyon C, Feng P, van den Ende BG, Stielow JB, Stchigel AM, Lu H, de Hoog S (2018). "Phylogeny, ecology and taxonomy of systemic pathogens and their relatives in Ajellomycetaceae (Onygenales): Blastomyces, Emergomyces, Emmonsia, Emmonsiellopsis". Fungal Diversity. 90: 245–291. doi:10.1007/s13225-018-0403-y. hdl:10067/1520590151162165141.
- ^ Vilela R, de Hoog S, Bensch K, Bagagli E, Mendoza L (2023). "A taxonomic review of the genus Paracoccidioides, with focus on the uncultivable species" (PDF). PLOS Negl Trop Dis. 17 (4): e0011220. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0011220. PMC 10138850. PMID 37104274.