Ajellomyces
{{Short description|Genus of fungi}}
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| regnum = Fungi
| divisio = Ascomycota
| classis = Eurotiomycetes
| ordo = Onygenales
| familia = Ajellomycetaceae
| genus = Ajellomyces
| genus_authority = McDonough & A.L.Lewis (1968){{cite journal |vauthors =Untereiner WA, Scott JA, Naveau FA, Sigler L, Bachewich J, Angus A |year=2004 |title=The Ajellomycetaceae, a new family of vertebrate-associated Onygenales |journal=Mycologia |volume=96 |issue=4 |pages=812–821 |url=http://www.mycologia.org/cgi/content/full/96/4/812 |doi=10.2307/3762114 |jstor=3762114 |pmid=21148901|url-access=subscription }}
| type_species = Ajellomyces dermatitidis
| type_species_authority = McDonough & A.L.Lewis (1968)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = Ajellomyces capsulatus
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Ajellomyces is a genus of fungi in the division Ascomycota, in the family Ajellomycetaceae.{{cite journal|vauthors=Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM |date=December 2007 |title=Outline of Ascomycota – 2007 |journal=Myconet |volume=13 |pages=1–58 |url=http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp |publisher=The Field Museum, Department of Botany |location=Chicago, USA |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090318003134/http://www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp |archivedate=2009-03-18 }} The genus contains two species, which have a widespread distribution, especially in tropical areas.{{cite book |vauthors =Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA |title=Dictionary of the Fungi |edition=10th |publisher=CAB International |location=Wallingford, UK |year=2008 |page=17 |isbn=978-0-85199-826-8}} The species Ajellomyces capsulatus is significant to human health as the causative agent of histoplasmosis.[https://web.archive.org/web/20120304211117/http://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/5037 |publisher=Uniprot www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/5037|publisher=Uniprot] This species is more usually referred to as Histoplasma capsulatum, with the designation Ajellomyces capsulatus referring to the ascomycetous perfect stage.{{cite journal|vauthors =Guimarães AJ, de Cerqueira MD, Nosanchuk JD |title=Surface architecture of Histoplasma capsulatum |journal=Frontiers in Microbiology |pmid=22121356 |doi=10.3389/fmicb.2011.00225 |volume=2 |pmc=3220077 |year=2011 |page=225|doi-access=free }}