| Papiliotrema laurentii | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Tremellomycetes |
| Order: | Tremellales |
| Family: | Rhynchogastremaceae |
| Genus: | Papiliotrema |
| Species: | P. laurentii
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| Binomial name | |
| Papiliotrema laurentii (Kuff.) X.Z. Liu, F.Y. Bai, M. Groenew. & Boekhout (2015)
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| Synonyms | |
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Torula laurentii Kuff (1920) | |
Papiliotrema laurentii (synonym Cryptococcus laurentii) is a species of fungus in the family Rhynchogastremaceae. It is typically isolated in its yeast state.
In its yeast state, it is a rare human pathogen, able to provoke a skin condition,1 or fungemia in immunocompromised hosts.2
It can also be used as sole source of food for the rearing of Caenorhabditis elegans.3
References
References
- 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
- 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
- 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