Importance of Resolving Fungal Nomenclature: the Case of Multiple Pathogenic Species in the Cryptococcus Genus
Journal article published in 2017 by
Ferry Hagen 
,
H. Thorsten Lumbsch ,
Valentina Arsic Arsenijevic ,
Hamid Badali ,
Sebastien Bertout,
R. Blake Billmyre ,
M. Rosa Bragulat ,
F. Javier Cabañes,
Mauricio Carbia,
Arunaloke Chakrabarti ,
Sudha Chaturvedi ,
Vishnu Chaturvedi ,
Min Chen,
Anuradha Chowdhary ,
Maria-Francisca Colom
and other authors.
,
H. Thorsten Lumbsch ,
Valentina Arsic Arsenijevic ,
Hamid Badali ,
Sebastien Bertout,
R. Blake Billmyre ,
M. Rosa Bragulat ,
F. Javier Cabañes,
Mauricio Carbia,
Arunaloke Chakrabarti ,
Sudha Chaturvedi ,
Vishnu Chaturvedi ,
Min Chen,
Anuradha Chowdhary ,
Maria-Francisca Colom
and other authors.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract
Cryptococcosis is a major fungal disease caused by members of the Cryptococcus gattii and Cryptococcus neoformans species complexes. After more than 15 years of molecular genetic and phenotypic studies and much debate, a proposal for a taxonomic revision was made.