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Phylogenetic Analysis of <i>Lacazia loboi</i> Places This Previously Uncharacterized Pathogen within the Dimorphic Onygenales
1 Jan 2001
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Lacazia loboi is the last of the classical fungal pathogens to remain a taxonomic enigma, primarily because it has resisted cultivation and only causes cutaneous and subcutaneous infections in humans and dolphins in the New World tropics. To place it in the evolutionary tree of life, as has been done for the other enigmatic human pathogens Pneumocystis carinii and Rhinosporidium seeberi, we amplified its 18S...
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