Article
[Classification and phylogeny of pathogenic fungi].
Nihon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine - 1 Dec 2008
Yaguchi Takashi, Tanaka Reiko
Abstract excerpt
The clinical isolates are traditionally classified based on morphology, but in recent years a polyphasic taxonomy that combines morphological, physiologic and molecular phylogenetic analyses is used to characterize them. Numerous common pathogenic species, traditionally considered homogeneous, are indeed polyphyletic. Classifications of Candida albicans, Cryptococcus neoformans and Aspergillus fumigatus and...
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