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Eukaryotic Cell, May 2009, p. 713-722, Vol. 8, No. 5
1535-9778/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/EC.00272-08
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Aspergillus alabamensis, a New Clinically Relevant Species in the Section Terrei{triangledown}

S. Arunmozhi Balajee,1* John W. Baddley,2,3 Stephen W. Peterson,4 David Nickle,5 János Varga,6,7 Angeline Boey,1 Cornelia Lass-Flörl,8 Jens C. Frisvad,9 Robert A. Samson,6 and the ISHAM Working Group on A. terreus

Mycotic Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia,1 Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham,2 Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama,3 National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Peoria, Illinois,4 Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington,5 CBS Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands,6 Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary,7 Department of Hygiene, Microbiology and Social Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria,8 Center for Microbial Biotechnology, Biocentrum-DTU, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark9

Received 12 August 2008/ Accepted 22 January 2009

Phylogenetic analyses of sequences generated from portions of three genes coding for the proteins enolase (enoA), β-tubulin (benA), and calmodulin (calM) of a large number of isolates within the section Terrei, genus Aspergillus, revealed the presence of a new cryptic species within this section, Aspergillus alabamensis. Most members of this new cryptic species were recovered as colonizing isolates from immunocompetent patient populations, had decreased in vitro susceptibilities to the antifungal drug amphotericin B, and were morphologically similar to but genetically distinct from Aspergillus terreus isolates.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Mycotic Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mail stop G11, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333. Phone: (404) 639 3337. Fax: (404) 639-3546. E-mail: fir3{at}cdc.gov

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 20 March 2009.

Eukaryotic Cell, May 2009, p. 713-722, Vol. 8, No. 5
1535-9778/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/EC.00272-08
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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