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Descriptor English: Sporothrix
Descriptor Spanish: Sporothrix
Descriptor Sporothrix
Entry term(s) Sporotrichum
Scope note: Género fúngico de Ophiostomataceae mitospóricos, cuya especie Sporothrix schenckii es un conocido patógeno de animales. Los conidios de este hongo que se encuentra en los suelos pueden ser inhalados, produciendo una infección pulmonar primaria, o pueden infectar independientemente a través de pinchazos en la piel.
Descriptor Portuguese: Sporothrix
Descriptor French: Sporothrix
Entry term(s): Sporothrices
Sporotrichum
Sporotrichums
Tree number(s): B01.300.381.820
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013175
Scope note: A mitosporic Ophiostomataceae fungal genus, whose species Sporothrix schenckii is a well-known animal pathogen. The conidia of this soil fungus may be inhaled causing a primary lung infection, or may infect independently via skin punctures.
Annotation: infection = SPOROTRICHOSIS
Allowable Qualifiers: CH chemistry
CL classification
CY cytology
DE drug effects
EN enzymology
GD growth & development
GE genetics
IM immunology
IP isolation & purification
ME metabolism
PH physiology
PY pathogenicity
RE radiation effects
UL ultrastructure
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 99; see SPOROTRICHUM 1963-98; for SPOROTHRIX see SPOROTRICHUM 1974-98
History Note: 99(63)
DeCS ID: 13560
Unique ID: D013175
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Date Established: 1999/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2009/07/06
Sporothrix - Preferred
Concept UI M0020385
Scope note A mitosporic Ophiostomataceae fungal genus, whose species Sporothrix schenckii is a well-known animal pathogen. The conidia of this soil fungus may be inhaled causing a primary lung infection, or may infect independently via skin punctures.
Preferred term Sporothrix
Entry term(s) Sporothrices
Sporotrichum
Sporotrichums



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