Trichosporonaceae
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| Trichosporonaceae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Tremellomycetes |
| Order: | Trichosporonales |
| Family: | Trichosporonaceae Nann. (1934) |
| Genera | |
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Apiotrichum | |
| Synonyms | |
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Asterotremellaceae Prillinger et al. (2007) | |
The Trichosporonaceae are a family of fungi in the order Trichosporonales. The family currently contains six genera.[1] Species are not known to produce basidiocarps (fruit bodies), but exist as yeasts or produce septate hyphae with arthroconidia. Several species are human pathogens.[2]
References
- ^ Liu XZ, Wang QM, Göker M, Groenewald M, Kachalkin AV, Lumbsch HT, Millanes AM, Wedin M, Yurkov AM, Boekhout T, Bai FY (2015). "Towards an integrated phylogenetic classification of the Tremellomycetes". Studies in Mycology. 81: 85–147. doi:10.1016/j.simyco.2015.12.001. PMC 4777781. PMID 26955199.
- ^ de Almeida JN, Hennequin C (2016). "Invasive Trichosporon Infection: a Systematic Review on a Re-emerging Fungal Pathogen". Front. Microbiol. 7: 1629. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2016.01629. PMC 5065970. PMID 27799926.