Cryptococcus neoformans

Cryptococcus neoformans

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Tremellales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holomycota Regnum: Fungi Subregnum: Dikarya Divisio: Basidiomycota Subdivisio: Agaricomycotina Classis: Tremellomycetes Ordo: Tremellales

Familia: Cryptococcaceae
Genus: Cryptococcus
Species: Cryptococcus neoformans

Host-Substratum/Locality: Isolated by A. Proctor, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A. from patient with Hodgkins lymphoma.

Epitype: NYSD 1649

Name

Cryptococcus neoformans (Sanfelice) Vuill., Rev. Gén. Sci. Pures Appl. 12: 747 (1901)

Synonymy

• Basionym
• Saccharomyces neoformans Sanfelice, Ann. Ig. Sperim. 5: 241 (1895)
• Homotypic
• Blastomyces neoformans (Sanfelice) Arzt, Arch. Dermatol. Syph. 145: 311 (1924)
• Debaryomyces neoformans (Sanfelice) Redaelli, Cif. & A.Giord., Boll. Sez. Ital. Soc. Int. Microbiol. 9: 24 (1937)
• Filobasidiella neoformans (Sanfelice) Kwon-Chung, Mycologia 67(6): 1199 (1976)
• Lipomyces neoformans (Sanfelice) Cif., Man. Micol. Med. ed. 2, 2: 214 (1960)
• Torula neoformans (Sanfelice) J.D. Weis, J. Med. Res. 7: 302 (1902)
• Torulopsis neoformans (Sanfelice) Redaelli, Riv. Biol. 13: 171-235 (1931)
• Heterotypic
• Cryptococcus hominis Vuill., 1901
  • Saccharomyces hominis Constantin, 1901
  • Atelosaccharomyces hominis Todd & Herrman, 1936
  • Torulopsis hominis (Vuill.) Redaelli, 1931
• Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii Franzot, Salkin & Casadevall, 1999
• Atelosaccharomyces breweri Verdun, Précis Parasitol. (1912)
• Cryptococcus breweri (Verdun) Castell. & Chalm., Man. Trop. Med. ed. 3: 771 (1913)
  • Saccharomyces breweri (Verdun) Neveu-Lem., Précis de Parasitologie Humaine: Parasites Végétaux et Animaux: 97 (1921) [MB#251086]
  • Torulopsis breweri (Verdun) F.P.Almeida, Ann. Fac. Med. São Paulo 9: 69-163 (1933)

• Cryptococcus cerebriloculosus W.R.Freeman & Weidman, 1923
• Cryptococcus costantinii Mello & L.G.Fern., 1918
• Cryptococcus guilliermondii Beauverie & Lesieur, 1912
• Cryptococcus histolyticus Castell., 1928
• Cryptococcus hondurianus Castell., 1933
• Cryptococcus kleinii Cohn, 1907
• Cryptococcus lithogenes Vuill., 1907
• Cryptococcus meningitidis C.W.Dodge, 1935
• Cryptococcus nasalis C.W.Dodge, 1935
• Cryptococcus plimmeri Castagne, 1907
• Cryptococcus psicrofilicus Niño, 6 Reunion Soc. Argent. Patol. Region. Norte, Salta 1930: 94 (1930)
  • Candida psicrophylica (Niño) Niño, 1934

References

Primary references

• Sanfelice, F. 1895. Sull'azione patogena dei blastomiceti. Memoria prima. Annali d'igiene sperimentale 5: 103–166. Google Books Reference page. 

Additional references

• Hagen, F., Khayhan, K., Theelen, B., Kolecka, A., Polacheck, I., Sionov, E., Falk, R., Parnmen, S., Lumbsch, H.T. & Boekhout, T. 2015. Recognition of seven species in the Cryptococcus gattii/Cryptococcus neoformans species complex. Fungal Genetics and Biology 78: 16–48. DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2015.02.009 [1] Reference page. 
• Liu, X.-Z., Wang, Q.-M., Göker, M., Groenewald, M., Kachalkin, A.V., Lumbsch, H.T., Millanes, A.M., Wedin, M., Yurkov, A.M., Boekhout, T. & Bai, F.-Y. 2015. Towards an integrated phylogenetic classification of the Tremellomycetes. Studies in Mycology 81: 85–147. DOI: 10.1016/j.simyco.2015.12.001 . ResearchGate . Reference page.