Trichosporon
| Trichosporon | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Tremellomycetes |
| Order: | Tremellales |
| Family: | Trichosporonaceae |
| Genus: |
Trichosporon Behrend, 1890 |
| Type species | |
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Trichosporon beigelii (Küchenm. & Rabenh.) Vuill. |
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| Other species | |
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Trichosporon aquatile |
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Trichosporon aquatile
Trichosporon asahii
Trichosporon asteroides
Trichosporon brassicae
Trichosporon caseorum
Trichosporon chiarellii
Trichosporon coremiiforme
Trichosporon cutaneum
Trichosporon debeurmannianum
Trichosporon dehoogii
Trichosporon dermatis
Trichosporon dohaense
Trichosporon domesticum
Trichosporon dulcitum
Trichosporon faecale
Trichosporon gamsii
Trichosporon gracile
Trichosporon guehoae
Trichosporon inkin
Trichosporon insectorum
Trichosporon japonicum
Trichosporon jirovecii
Trichosporon lactis
Trichosporon laibachii
Trichosporon lignicola
Trichosporon loubieri
Trichosporon moniliiforme
Trichosporon montevideense
Trichosporon mucoides
Trichosporon multisporum
Trichosporon ovoides
Trichosporon porosum
Trichosporon scarabaeorum
Trichosporon sinense
Trichosporon smithiae
Trichosporon sporotrichoides
Trichosporon terricola
Trichosporon tryphenardum
Trichosporon vadense
Trichosporon vanderwaltii
Trichosporon veenhuisii
Trichosporon wilphenae
Trichosporon is a genus of anamorphic fungi in the family Trichosporonaceae. All species of Trichosporon are yeasts with no known teleomorphs (sexual states). Most are typically isolated from soil, but several species occur as a natural part of the skin microbiota of humans and other animals. Proliferation of Trichosporon yeasts in the hair can lead to an unpleasant but non-serious condition known as white piedra. Trichosporon species can also cause severe opportunistic infections (trichosporonosis) in immunocompromised individuals.
The genus was first described by the German dermatologist Gustav Behrend in 1890, based on yeasts isolated from the hairs of a moustache where they were causing the condition known as "white piedra". Behrend called his new species T. ovoides, but subsequently Pleurococcus beigelii (later recombined as Trichosporon beigelii) was considered to be an earlier name for the same species and was accepted as the type of the genus Trichosporon.
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