If looks could kill: Fungal macroscopic morphology and virulence.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Kowalski, Caitlin H.; Cramer, Robert A.
- Source
- PLoS Pathogens. 6/18/2020, Vol. 16 Issue 6, p1-8. 8p.
- Subject
- *FUNGAL morphology
*VIBRIO cholerae
*CANDIDA
*BURKHOLDERIA infections
*DRUG resistance in microorganisms
*BURKHOLDERIA pseudomallei
*MYCOBACTERIUM avium
*PARACOCCIDIOIDES brasiliensis
- Language
- ISSN
- 1553-7366
The complexity and diversity of microbial colony morphologies have contributed to the identification of pathogenic microbes for decades. I neoformans i morphology is the dull or smooth colony phenotype associated with reduced or absent capsule production (for an excellent review of I Cryptococcus i morphological variants, see [[15]]). While it remains unclear whether fungal macroscopic morphology virulence associations will be the exception or the norm, the potential ability to infer pathogenesis-related phenotypes from an isolate's morphotype is expected to continue to yield new insights into fungal biology and virulence. [Extracted from the article]