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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, October 2003, p. 4767-4778, Vol. 41, No. 10
0095-1137/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.10.4767-4778.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Species Diversity and Polymorphism in the Exophiala spinifera Clade Containing Opportunistic Black Yeast-Like Fungi

G. S. de Hoog,1,2* V. Vicente,3 R. B. Caligiorne,4 S. Kantarcioglu,5 K. Tintelnot,6 A. H. G. Gerrits van den Ende,1 and G. Haase7

Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, Utrecht,1 Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands,2 Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, University of Sao Paulo, Piracicaba,3 Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou/FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, Brazil,4 Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Department of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey,5 Robert Koch Institut, Berlin,6 Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Universitätsklinikum RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany7

Received 21 March 2003/ Returned for modification 5 May 2003/ Accepted 3 July 2003

A monophyletic group of black yeast-like fungi containing opportunistic pathogens around Exophiala spinifera is analyzed using sequences of the small-subunit (SSU) and internal transcribed spacer (ITS) domains of ribosomal DNA. The group contains yeast-like and annellidic species (anamorph genus Exophiala) in addition to sympodial taxa (anamorph genera Ramichloridium and Rhinocladiella). The new species Exophiala oligosperma, Ramichloridium basitonum, and Rhinocladiella similis are introduced and compared with their morphologically similar counterparts at larger phylogenetic distances outside the E. spinifera clade. Exophiala jeanselmei is redefined. New combinations are proposed in Exophiala: Exophiala exophialae for Phaeococcomyces exophialae and Exophiala heteromorpha for E. jeanselmei var. heteromorpha.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, P.O. Box 85167, NL-3508 AD Utrecht, The Netherlands. Phone: (31) 30-2122663. Fax: (31) 30-2512097. E-mail: de.hoog{at}cbs.knaw.nl.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, October 2003, p. 4767-4778, Vol. 41, No. 10
0095-1137/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.10.4767-4778.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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