The pathogenic potential of the Lichtheimia genus revisited: Lichtheimia brasiliensis is a novel, non-pathogenic species

Volker U Schwartze; André Luiz C M de A Santiago; Ilse D Jacobsen; Kerstin Voigt

doi:10.1111/myc.12230

The pathogenic potential of the Lichtheimia genus revisited: Lichtheimia brasiliensis is a novel, non-pathogenic species

Mycoses. 2014 Dec:57 Suppl 3:128-31. doi: 10.1111/myc.12230. Epub 2014 Sep 30.

Authors

Volker U Schwartze¹, André Luiz C M de A Santiago, Ilse D Jacobsen, Kerstin Voigt

Affiliation

¹ Jena Microbial Resource Collection, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute, Jena, Germany; Faculty of Biology and Pharmacy, Institute of Microbiology, Department Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany; Microbial Immunology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute, Jena, Germany.

PMID: 25267009
DOI: 10.1111/myc.12230

Abstract

Lichtheimia brasiliensis was recently described as a novel species within the genus Lichtheimia, which comprises a total of six species. L. brasiliensis was first reported from soil in Brazil. The aim of the study was to determine the relative virulence potential of L. brasiliensis using an avian infection model based on chicken embryos.

Keywords: Infection model; Lichtheimia; avian infection model; pathogenesis; virulence; zygomycosis.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Brazil
Chick Embryo
Disease Models, Animal
Mucorales / classification*
Mucorales / isolation & purification
Mucorales / pathogenicity*
Phylogeny
Soil Microbiology
Virulence Factors / genetics

Substances

Virulence Factors