Cryptococcus adeliensis

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Cryptococcus adeliensis
Systematics
Subdivision : Agaricomycotina Class : Tremellomycetes Order : Filobasidiales Family : Filobasidiaceae Genre : Cryptococcus Type : Cryptococcus adeliensis
Scientific name
Cryptococcus adeliensis
Scorzetti , Petrescu , Yarrow & Fell

Cryptococcus adeliensis is a yeast from the genus Cryptococcus .

The fungus was first isolated in Terre Adélie in Antarctica . The first description was published in 2000. It differs from other Cryptococci species by its cold-adapted xylanase . As an opportunistic pathogen, the fungus, like other types of cryptococci, can trigger cryptococcosis in immunocompromised people .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Scorzetti G1, Petrescu I, Yarrow D, Fell JW: Cryptococcus adeliensis sp. nov., a xylanase producing basidiomycetous yeast from Antarctica. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek. 2000 Feb; 77 (2): 153-7. PMID 10768474
2. ↑ Dagmar Rimek, Gerhard Haase, Andreas Lück, Jochen Casper, Andreas Podbielski: First Report of a Case of Meningitis Caused by Cryptococcus adeliensis in a Patient with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. J. Clin. Microbiol. January 2004 vol. 42 no. 1 481-483, PMID 14715811

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