Paracoccidioides

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|image =Paracoccidioides brasiliensis 01.jpg

|image_caption = Budding cells of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis

|taxon = Paracoccidioides

|authority = F.P. Almeida (1930)

| type_species = Paracoccidioides brasiliensis

| type_species_authority = (Splend.) F.P. Almeida (1930)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = Paracoccidioides americana

Paracoccidioides brasiliensis

Paracoccidioides ceti

Paracoccidioides lobogeorgii

Paracoccidioides lutzii

Paracoccidioides restrepoana (nom. inval.)

Paracoccidioides venezuelensis (nom. inval.)

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Paracoccidioides is a genus of fungi in the order Onygenales. Species are known human pathogens producing yeast-like states under pathogenic conditions. They include the causative agents of paracoccidioidomycosis and lobomycosis.

References

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{{cite journal |vauthors=Jiang Y, Dukik K, Munoz JF, Sigler L, Schwartz IS, Govender NP, Kenyon C, Feng P, van den Ende BG, Stielow JB, Stchigel AM, Lu H, de Hoog S |title=Phylogeny, ecology and taxonomy of systemic pathogens and their relatives in Ajellomycetaceae (Onygenales): Blastomyces, Emergomyces, Emmonsia, Emmonsiellopsis |journal=Fungal Diversity |year=2018 |volume=90 |pages=245–291 |doi=10.1007/s13225-018-0403-y|doi-access=free |hdl=10067/1520590151162165141 |hdl-access=free }}

{{cite journal |vauthors=Vilela R, de Hoog S, Bensch K, Bagagli E, Mendoza L |year=2023 |title=A taxonomic review of the genus Paracoccidioides, with focus on the uncultivable species |journal=PLOS Negl Trop Dis |volume=17 |issue=4 |pages=e0011220 |doi=10.1371/journal.pntd.0011220|doi-access=free |pmid=37104274 |pmc=10138850 |url=https://repository.ubn.ru.nl//bitstream/handle/2066/292337/292337.pdf }}

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Category:Eurotiomycetes genera

Category:Onygenales

Category:Fungal pathogens of humans