Phylogenetic and evolutionary aspects of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis reveal a long coexistence with animal hosts that explain several biological features of the pathogen

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 344-351

  Bagagli, Eduardo ^a   Bosco, Sandra M G ^a   Theodoro, Raquel Cordeiro ^a   Franco, Marcello ^b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Dimorphic pathogenic fungi; Ecology; Evolution; Infection; Paracoccidioides brasiliensis; Systemic mycoses

Indexed keywords

ARMADILLO; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BLASTOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDENTATA; EPIDEMIC; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LATENT PERIOD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MYCELIUM; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; ONYGENALES; PALEOCENE; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; PARASITISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AMERICA; SPECIES HABITAT;

ANIMALS; ARMADILLOS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; PHYLOGENY;

AJELLOMYCES CAPSULATUS; AJELLOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; ANIMALIA; ASCOMYCOTA; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; DASYPODIDAE; DASYPUS NOVEMCINCTUS; FUNGI; HOMO SAPIENS; ONYGENACEAE; ONYGENALES; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; XENARTHRA;

EID: 33745654152     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2005.12.002     Document Type: Article

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