Cryptococcus Yarrowii Sp. Nov., a Novel Yeast Species from Portugal

Overview

Journal Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

Publisher Springer

Specialty Microbiology

Date 1991 Apr 1

PMID 1867473

Citations 1

Authors

A Fonseca

N van Uden

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Abstract

A novel species of the basidiomycetous genus Cryptococcus is described as Cr. yarrowii based on the study of an isolate from a decayed mushroom collected in Portugal. DNA-DNA homology with the type strain of the phenotypically similar species Cr. albidus was 10 +/- 2%.

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