Etymologia: Talaromyces marneffei

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Mahajan, Monika
• Description:
  Talaromyces marneffei [t læ′ ɹɒ maɪ̯ s ɪz mɑ:neɪ′]
  
  Talaromyces marneffei (formerly Penicillium marneffei) is a thermally dimorphic fungus that causes talaromycosis, which was previously called penicilliosis. The genus name Talaromyces is derived from the Greek words tálaros (basket) and múkēs (mushroom). Talaros aptly describes the ascocarp known as a gymnothecium (composed offinewovenhyphae)inwhichasciareformed. Asexual stages of Talaromyces species were pre- viously known as the species Penicillium of the subgenus Biverticillium. Capponi and Sureau iso- lated the fungus at Institute Pasteur de Dalat in Vietnam in 1955 from Chinese bamboo rats (Rhi- zomys sinensis). In 1959, Gabriel Segretain, after an accidental finger prick with a needle containing the yeast cells, described the fungus as a new species, naming it Penicillium marneffei in honor of Hubert Marneffe (1901– 1970), the Director of the Institute in Indochina.
  
  Talaromycosis affects persons who live in or visit Southeast Asia, southern China, or northeastern India, and are immunocompromised because of HIV/AIDS, cancer, organ transplant, or adult-onset immunodeficiency syndrome. This disease occurs after inhalation of aerosolized fungal spores from the environ- ment. Although the precise reservoir is unknown, T. marneffei is found in bamboo rats.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Etymologia Talaromyces Terminology As Topic
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 27(9):2278
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8386783
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Name as Subject:
  Marneffe, Hubert, 1901-1970 ; Marneffe, Hubert, 1901-1970
• Genre:
  Etymologia
• Volume:
  27
• Issue:
  9
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
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  urn:sha256:d52ee7772c833294d1dfc7a8ae74108296143fb7793ad4db83d2950f5ecc86b3
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