Tremellaceae ⇒ Cryptococcus {10001838} Record Keys Parent:Tremellaceae Definition:Cryptococcus Details Initialisation date:[ ] Meta Information Rank: Genus Domain:Fungi Zone:[ ] Enzyme:[ ] Function:[ ] Notes: [ ]Shared Reference Notes [1.1] [#Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis] - Tissue sections from different regions of the CNS of ALS patients contain fungi. - fungal structures such as yeast and hyphae in the motor cortex, the medulla and the spinal cord, in eleven patients with ALS. - Some fungal structures were localized intracellularly and even intranuclearly, indicating that this infection is not the result of post-mortem colonization. - PCR analysis and next generation sequencing of DNA extracted from frozen neural tissue identified a variety of fungal genera including #Candida, #Malassezia, #Fusarium, #Botrytis, #Trichoderma and Cryptococcus.References Notes[ ]
