Josep Guarro

Universidad Rovira i Virgili

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J. Cano

Universidad Rovira i Virgili

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Josepa Gené

Universidad Rovira i Virgili

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Alberto M. Stchigel

Universidad Rovira i Virgili

Javier Capilla

Universidad Rovira i Virgili

María José Figueras

Universidad Rovira i Virgili

Deanna A. Sutton

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

F. Javier Pastor

Universidad Rovira i Virgili

Emilio Mayayo

Universidad Rovira i Virgili

Dania García

Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili

Sybren de Hoog

Guiyang Medical University

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Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute

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Universidad Rovira i Virgili

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Cornell University

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Mae Fah Luang University

Murdoch University

University of Tartu

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Universitat de les Illes Balears

University of Palermo

Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Sciences

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Fungal Planet description sheets: 214–280

Persoonia - Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi (2014)

P.W. Crous Roger G. Shivas W. Quaedvlieg Michelle van der Bank Y. Zhang

Novel species of microfungi described in the present study include the following from South Africa: Cercosporella dolichandrae from Dolichandra unguiscati, Seiridium podocarpi from Podocarpus latifolius, Pseudocercospora parapseudarthriae from Pseudarthria hookeri, Neodevriesia coryneliae from Corynelia uberata on leaves of Afrocarpus falcatus, Ramichloridium eucleae from Euclea undulata and Stachybotrys aloeticola from Aloe sp. (South Africa), as novel member of the Stachybotriaceae fam. nov. Several species were also described from Zambia, and these include Chaetomella zambiensis on unknown Fabaceae, Schizoparme pseudogranati from Terminalia stuhlmannii, Diaporthe isoberliniae from Isoberlinia angolensis, Peyronellaea combreti from Combretum mossambiciensis, Zasmidium rothmanniae and Phaeococcomyces rothmanniae from Rothmannia engleriana, Diaporthe vangueriae from Vangueria infausta and Diaporthe parapterocarpi from Pterocarpus brenanii. Novel species from the Netherlands include: Stagonospora trichophoricola, Keissleriella trichophoricola and Dinemasporium trichophoricola from Trichophorum cespitosum, Phaeosphaeria poae, Keissleriella poagena, Phaeosphaeria poagena, Parastagonospora poagena and Pyrenochaetopsis poae from Poa sp., Septoriella oudemansii from Phragmites australis and Dendryphion europaeum from Hedera helix (Germany) and Heracleum sphondylium (the Netherlands). Novel species from Australia include: Anungitea eucalyptorum from Eucalyptus leaf litter, Beltraniopsis neolitseae and Acrodontium neolitseae from Neolitsea australiensis, Beltraniella endiandrae from Endiandra introrsa, Phaeophleospora parsoniae from Parsonia straminea, Penicillifer martinii from Cynodon dactylon, Ochroconis macrozamiae from Macrozamia leaf litter, Triposporium cycadicola, Circinotrichum cycadis, Cladosporium cycadicola and Acrocalymma cycadis from Cycas spp. Furthermore, Vermiculariopsiella dichapetali is described from Dichapetalum rhodesicum (Botswana), Ophiognomonia acadiensis from Picea rubens (Canada), Setophoma vernoniae from Vernonia polyanthes and Penicillium restingae from soil (Brazil), Pseudolachnella guaviyunis from Myrcianthes pungens (Uruguay) and Pseudocercospora neriicola from Nerium oleander (Italy). Novelties from Spain include: Dendryphiella eucalyptorum from Eucalyptus globulus, Conioscypha minutispora from dead wood, Diplogelasinospora moalensis and Pseudoneurospora canariensis from soil and Inocybe lanatopurpurea from reforested woodland of Pinus spp. Novelties from France include: Kellermania triseptata from Agave angustifolia, Zetiasplozna acaciae from Acacia melanoxylon, Pyrenochaeta pinicola from Pinus sp. and Pseudonectria rusci from Ruscus aculeatus. New species from China include: Dematiocladium celtidicola from Celtis bungeana, Beltrania pseudorhombica, Chaetopsina beijingensis and Toxicocladosporium pini from Pinus spp. and Setophaeosphaeria badalingensis from Hemerocallis fulva. Novel genera of Ascomycetes include Alfaria from Cyperus esculentus (Spain), Rinaldiella from a contaminated human lesion (Georgia), Hyalocladosporiella from Tectona grandis (Brazil), Pseudoacremonium from Saccharum spontaneum and Melnikomyces from leaf litter (Vietnam), Annellosympodiella from Juniperus procera (Ethiopia), Neoceratosperma from Eucalyptus leaves (Thailand), Ramopenidiella from Cycas calcicola (Australia), Cephalotrichiella from air in the Netherlands, Neocamarosporium from Mesembryanthemum sp. and Acervuloseptoria from Ziziphus mucronata (South Africa) and Setophaeosphaeria from Hemerocallis fulva (China). Several novel combinations are also introduced, namely for Phaeosphaeria setosa as Setophaeosphaeria setosa, Phoma heteroderae as Peyronellaea heteroderae and Phyllosticta maydis as Peyronellaea maydis. Morphological and culture characteristics along with ITS DNA barcodes are provided for all taxa.

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Podocarpus

10.3767/003158514x682395

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Scedosporium apiospermum: changing clinical spectrum of a therapy-refractory opportunist*

Medical Mycology (2006)

Josep Guarro A. Serda Kantarcıoğlu R. Horré Juan L. Rodrı́guez-Tudela Manuel Cuenca Estrella

Current knowledge on the opportunist Scedosporium apiospermum (teleomorph: Pseudallescheria boydii), generated over a period of more than 120 years, is reviewed. The natural environmental habitat of the fungus is unknown; nutrient-rich, brackish waters like river estuaria have been suggested. The fungus is strongly promoted by agricultural and particularly by industrial pollution.

Scedosporium apiospermum

10.1080/13693780600752507

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Microsphaeropsis olivaceaas an etiological agent of human skin infection

Medical Mycology (1999)

Josep Guarro Emilio Mayayo J. Tapiol Carme Aguilar J. Cano

Microsphaeropsis olivacea is reported as the agent of a case of humanskin infection in an otherwise healthy woman. This fungus has not been reported previously as causing disease in humans. It was identified on the basis of its production of pycnidia and conidial structures typical of the Coelomycetes, and by its light brown, ellipsoid to cylindrical and thick walled conidia. The in vitro inhibitory activity of amphotericin B, fluconazole, flucytosine, itraconazole, ketoconazole and miconazole was determined.

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10.1080/02681219980000211

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Spectrum of Zygomycete Species Identified in Clinically Significant Specimens in the United States

Journal of Clinical Microbiology (2009)

Eduardo Álvarez Deanna A. Sutton J. Cano A W Fothergill Alberto M. Stchigel

Several members of the order Mucorales (subphylum Mucoromycotina) are important agents of severe human infections. The identification of these fungi by using standard mycologic methods is often difficult and time consuming. Frequently, the etiological agent in clinical cases is reported either as a Mucor sp., which is not the most frequent genus of zygomycetes, or only as a member of the Mucorales. For this reason, the actual spectrum of species of zygomycetes and their incidences in the clinical setting is not well known. The goals of this study were to compare the results of the molecular identification of an important set of clinical isolates, received in a mycological reference center from different regions of the United States, with those obtained by using the traditional morphological methods and to determine the spectrum of species involved. We tested 190 isolates morphologically identified as zygomycetes by using sequencing of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of the ribosomal DNA. Molecular identification revealed that Rhizopus oryzae represented approximately half (44.7%) of these isolates. The remainder was identified as Rhizopus microsporus (22.1%), Mucor circinelloides (9.5%), Mycocladus corymbifer (formerly Absidia corymbifera) (5.3%), Rhizomucor pusillus (3.7%), Cunninghamella bertholletiae (3.2%), Mucor indicus (2.6%), Cunninghamella echinulata (1%), and Apophysomyces elegans (0.5%). The most common anatomic sites for clinically significant zygomycetes, as determined by isolates sent to the Fungus Testing Laboratory for identification and/or susceptibility testing and included in this study, were the sinuses, lungs, and various cutaneous locations, at 25.8%, 26.8%, and 28%, respectively. These sites represented approximately 80% of the isolates evaluated. A high level of correlation (92.6%) between morphological and molecular identifications was found.

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Mucor circinelloides

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Malassezia

10.1128/jcm.00036-09

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Phylogenomic Analysis of a 55.1-kb 19-Gene Dataset Resolves a MonophyleticFusariumthat Includes theFusarium solaniSpecies Complex

Phytopathology (2020)

David M. Geiser Abdullah M. S. Al‐Hatmi Takayuki Aoki Tsutomu Arie Virgilio Balmas

Scientific communication is facilitated by a data-driven, scientifically sound taxonomy that considers the end-user's needs and established successful practice. In 2013, the Fusarium community voiced near unanimous support for a concept of Fusarium that represented a clade comprising all agriculturally and clinically important Fusarium species, including the F. solani species complex (FSSC). Subsequently, this concept was challenged in 2015 by one research group who proposed dividing the genus Fusarium into seven genera, including the FSSC described as members of the genus Neocosmospora, with subsequent justification in 2018 based on claims that the 2013 concept of Fusarium is polyphyletic. Here, we test this claim and provide a phylogeny based on exonic nucleotide sequences of 19 orthologous protein-coding genes that strongly support the monophyly of Fusarium including the FSSC. We reassert the practical and scientific argument in support of a genus Fusarium that includes the FSSC and several other basal lineages, consistent with the longstanding use of this name among plant pathologists, medical mycologists, quarantine officials, regulatory agencies, students, and researchers with a stake in its taxonomy. In recognition of this monophyly, 40 species described as genus Neocosmospora were recombined in genus Fusarium, and nine others were renamed Fusarium. Here the global Fusarium community voices strong support for the inclusion of the FSSC in Fusarium, as it remains the best scientific, nomenclatural, and practical taxonomic option available.

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Fusarium solani

10.1094/phyto-08-20-0330-le

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Amaurascopsis, a new genus of Eurotiales

Mycotaxon (1992)

Josep Guarro J. Gené C. De Vroey

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A synopsis and re-circumscription of Neurospora (syn. Gelasinospora) based on ultrastructural and 28S rDNA sequence data

Mycological Research (2004)

Dania García Alberto M. Stchigel J. Cano Josep Guarro David L. Hawksworth

Neurospora

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10.1017/s0953756204000218

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Notes on conidial fungi. III. An interesting species of Polyschema from Cuba.

Mycotaxon (1996)

R. F. Castañeda Ruíz Josep Guarro J. Cano

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AcremoniumSpecies: New Emerging Fungal Opportunists—In Vitro Antifungal Susceptibilities and Review

Clinical Infectious Diseases (1997)

Josep Guarro W. Gams Isabel Pujol Josepa Gené

We provide an overview of opportunistic fungal infections caused by Acremonium (Cephalosporium) species and discuss the classification of these species as well as the diagnosis and treatment of acremonium infections. We used a microdilution broth method to compare in vitro susceptibilities and minimum inhibitory concentrations and minimum fungicidal concentrations of amphotericin B, miconazole, itraconazole, 5-fluorocytosine, fluconazole, and ketoconazole for 33 clinical and environmental isolates of Acremonium. In general, the isolates tested displayed little susceptibility to the antifungals tested. Fluconazole and 5-fluorocytosine were ineffective in all cases. The efficacy of the remaining drugs was dependent on the strain. Amphotericin B showed the best results.

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Nystatin

10.1086/516098

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A study of the growth of Pseudallescheria boydii isolates from sewage sludge and clinical sources on tributyrin, rapeseed oil, biodiesel oil and diesel oil.

PubMed (2008)

Katarzyna Janda Krzysztof Ulfig J. Cano Josep Guarro

The study compared the growth of Pseudallescheria boydii isolates from sewage sludge and from clinical sources on tributyrin, rapeseed oil, biodiesel oil and diesel oil agars. The isolates grew on all substrates tested. The highest growth was observed on rapeseed oil agar, while the lowest on diesel agar. On tributyrin agar, hydrolysis zones were observed around or underneath the colonies. On rapeseed oil agar, no hydrolysis zones were formed, while most isolates formed such a zone on biodiesel oil agar. Rapeseed oil and biodiesel oil stimulated the growth of P. boydii isolates, while tributyrin inhibited fungal growth. The stimulation or inhibition effect of diesel oil was dependent on the specified strain. In clinical isolates, fungal growth and activity were found to be more variable compared to sludge isolates. The data suggest that contamination of the environment with these oils could favor the growth of P. boydii. However, no association was found between the growth and oil utilization by this fungus and its pathogenicity.

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