Cryptococcus laurentii

Cryptococcus laurentii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Class: Tremellomycetes
Order: Tremellales
Family: Tremellaceae
Genus: Cryptococcus
Species: C. laurentii
Binomial name
Cryptococcus laurentii
(Kuff.) C.E. Skinner, 1950[1]
Synonyms
  • Torula laurentii Kuff., 1920[2]
  • Torulopsis laurentii (Kuff.) Lodder, 1934[3]
  • Cryptococcus laurentii var. laurentii (1952)
  • Rhodotorula laurentii (Kuff.) T. Haseg., Banno & Yamauchi, 1960[4]
  • Papiliotrema laurentii (Kuff.) X.Z. Liu, F.Y. Bai, M. Groenew. & Boekhout, 2015[5]
  • Rhodotorula nitens Mackenzie & Auret, 1963[6]

Cryptococcus laurentii is a species of yeasts.

It is also a rare human pathogen able to provoke cutaneous condition[7] or fungemia in immunocompromised hosts.[8]

It can also be used as sole source of food for the rearing of Caenorhabditis elegans.[9]

References

  1. ↑ C.E. Skinner, The American Midland Naturalist 43: 249 (1950)
  2. ↑ Kuff., Bulletin de la Societé Royale des Sciences Medicales et Naturelles de Bruxelles 74: 38 (1920)
  3. ↑ Lodder, Verhandelingen Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen Afdeling Natuurkunde 32: 160 (1934)
  4. ↑ T. Haseg., Banno & Yamauchi, Journal of General and Applied Microbiology Tokyo 6 (3): 212 (1960)
  5. ↑ X.Z. Liu, F.Y. Bai, M. Groenew. & Boekhout, Studies in Mycology 81: 126 (2015)
  6. ↑ Mackenzie & Auret, Journal of General Microbiology 31 (2): 171 (1963)
  7. ↑ Cutaneous Cryptococcus laurentii infection in an immunocompetent child. Alejandro Molina-Leyva, Jose C. Ruiz-Carrascosa, Ana Leyva-Garcia and Husein Husein-Elahmed, International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 17, Issue 12, December 2013, Pages e1232-e1233, doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2013.04.017
  8. ↑ Cryptococcus laurentii fungemia. Banerjee P, Haider M, Trehan V, Mishra B, Thakur A, Dogra V and Loomba P, Indian J Med Microbiol. 2013 Jan-Mar;31(1):75-7, doi:10.4103/0255-0857.108731
  9. ↑ Killing of Caenorhabditis elegans by Cryptococcus neoformans as a model of yeast pathogenesis. Eleftherios Mylonakis, Frederick M. Ausubel, John R. Perfect, Joseph Heitman and Stephen B. Calderwood, PNAS 2002 November, 99 (24) 15675-15680, doi:10.1073/pnas.232568599


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