Ascomycetous yeasts from tropical intertidal dark mud of southeast Brazilian estuaries

Four different intertidal estuarine sediments had distinct yeast communities. One-hundred-ninety-three yeast isolates were classified in 47 species, with 34 of these in the genus Candida. Candida tropicalis was the only ascomycetous species isolated from all four sites. Other opportunistic pathogens...

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Autores: Soares, Carlos A. G., Maury, Márcio, Pagnocca, Fernando C. [UNESP], Araujo, Fábio V., Mendonça-Hagler, Lêda C., Hagler, Allen N.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:1997
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da UNESP
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unesp.br:11449/65303
Acceso en línea:http://dx.doi.org/10.2323/jgam.43.265
http://hdl.handle.net/11449/65303
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Candida
Kluyveromyces aestuarii
Marine
Neotropical
Pichia
Sediment
Yeasts
ascomycetes
brazil
candida
candida glabrata
candida guilliermondii
candida krusei
candida parapsilosis
candida tropicalis
ecosystem
endomycetales
estuary
fungus identification
kluyveromyces
nonhuman
Candida glabrata
Candida guilliermondii
Candida krusei
Candida parapsilosis
Candida tropicalis
Candida valida
Pichia membranaefaciens
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Sumario:Four different intertidal estuarine sediments had distinct yeast communities. One-hundred-ninety-three yeast isolates were classified in 47 species, with 34 of these in the genus Candida. Candida tropicalis was the only ascomycetous species isolated from all four sites. Other opportunistic pathogens including Candida glabrata, Candida guilliermondii, Candida parapsilosis and Candida krusei were present, especially at the more polluted sites. Pichia species were also frequent isolates with Pichia membranaefaciens, and its anamorph, Candida valida, and other phenotypically similar low assimilation profile species the most frequent. Kluyveromyces aestuarii was prevalent at the only site with well established mangrove vegetation, but not present at the other sites. The sediment yeast communities were distinct from each other, but more similar to each other than to the yeast communities of other ecosystems in the same geographic region.