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Blastomyces
Sign in to saveBlastomyces 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 blastomycosis, a systemic mycosis in immunocompromised patients.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassEurotiomycetes
- OrderOnygenales
- FamilyOnygenaceae
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Research
1,814 papers- Blastomyces helicus, a New Dimorphic Fungus Causing Fatal Pulmonary and Systemic Disease in Humans and Animals in Western Canada and the United States.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2019
- Autochthonous Blastomyces dermatitidis, India.Emerging infectious diseases · 2024
- Blastomycosis.Infectious disease clinics of North America · 2021
- Blastomycosis.Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine · 2020
- Turning on virulence: Mechanisms that underpin the morphologic transition and pathogenicity of Blastomyces.Virulence · 2019
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Blastomyces 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 blastomycosis, a systemic mycosis in immunocompromised patients.
Blastomyces Gilchrist & W.R. Stokes (1898) was an illegitimate homonym of Blastomyces Costantin & Rolland (1888) (a synonym of Chrysosporium), but has now been conserved against the earlier name because of its widespread use in clinical literature. Teleomorphs (sexual states) were formerly referred to the genus Ajellomyces, but, following changes to the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants, the practice of giving different names to teleomorph and anamorph forms of the same fungus was discontinued.
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