| molecular characterization and evaluation of virulence factors of cryptococcus laurentii and cryptococcus neoformans strains isolated from external hospital areas. | cryptococcosis is a common opportunistic fungal infection that is mainly caused by the species cryptococcus neoformans and cryptococcus gattii, but there have recently been several reports of infection by non-neoformans cryptococcus species. the aims of this study were to genetically characterize cryptococcus spp. isolated from external hospital areas in minas gerais state, brazil, and to evaluate their pathogenic potential, analyzing their phospholipase and melanin production and the capacity f ... | 2010 | 20943154 |
| ogataea mangiferae sp. nov., a methylotrophic yeast isolated from mango leaves. | five strains of a novel methanol-assimilating yeast species were isolated from mango (mangifera indica) leaves collected at the campus of the federal university of minas gerais in brazil. the sequences of the internal transcribed spacer (its) region and the d1/d2 domains of the large subunit of the rrna gene showed that this species belongs to the ogataea clade and is related to o. allantospora, o. chonburiensis, o. dorogensis, o. kodamae, o. paradorogensis and candida xyloterini (ogataea clade) ... | 2015 | 25792365 |