Ovine Pulmonary Infection Caused by Rhodotorula rubra Pulmonale Infektion bei einem Schaf durch Rhodotorula rubra

Monga, D.; Garg, D. N.

doi:10.1111/j.1439-0507.1980.tb01787.x

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“…Rhodotorula mucilaginosa has recently emerged as an opportunistic fungal pathogen. Rhodotorula mucilaginosa is able to cause outbreaks of skin infections in chickens and lung infections in sheep [82,83], and it is able to worsen the condition of immunosuppressed patients [84]. Here, Rhodotorula mucilaginosa present in snow in Antarctica was found to be resistant to fluconazole and susceptible to amphotericin B.…”

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Diversity, Distribution, and Ecology of Fungi in the Seasonal Snow of Antarctica

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We characterized the fungal community found in the winter seasonal snow of the Antarctic Peninsula. From the samples of snow, 234 fungal isolates were obtained and could be assigned to 51 taxa of 26 genera. Eleven yeast species displayed the highest densities; among them, Phenoliferia glacialis showed a broad distribution and was detected at all sites that were sampled. Fungi known to be opportunistic in humans were subjected to antifungal minimal inhibition concentration. Debaryomyces hansenii, Rhodotorula mucilaginosa, Penicillium chrysogenum, Penicillium sp. 3, and Penicillium sp. 4 displayed resistance against the antifungals benomyl and fluconazole. Among them, R. mucilaginosa isolates were able to grow at 37 °C. Our results show that the winter seasonal snow of the Antarctic Peninsula contains a diverse fungal community dominated by cosmopolitan ubiquitous fungal species previously found in tropical, temperate, and polar ecosystems. The high densities of these cosmopolitan fungi suggest that they could be present in the air that arrives at the Antarctic Peninsula by air masses from outside Antarctica. Additionally, we detected environmental fungal isolates that were resistant to agricultural and clinical antifungals and able to grow at 37 °C. Further studies will be needed to characterize the virulence potential of these fungi in humans and animals.

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Diversity, Distribution, and Ecology of Fungi in the Seasonal Snow of Antarctica

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Sporadic Fungal Infections

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Milton

Ghatak

et al. 2021

Livestock Diseases and Management

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High Rhodotorula Sequences in Skin Transcriptome of Patients with Diffuse Systemic Sclerosis

Arron

Dimon

et al. 2014

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

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Previous studies have suggested a role for pathogens as a trigger of systemic sclerosis (SSc), though neither a pathogen nor a mechanism of pathogenesis is known. Here we show enrichment of Rhodotorula sequences in the skin of patients with early, diffuse SSc compared to normal controls. RNA-seq was performed on four SSc and four controls, to a depth of 200 million reads per patient. Data were analyzed to quantify the non-human sequence reads in each sample. We found little difference between bacterial microbiome and viral read counts, but found a significant difference between the read counts for a mycobiome component, R. glutinis. Normal samples contained almost no detected R. glutinis or other Rhodotorula sequence reads (mean score 0.021 for R. glutinis, 0.024 for all Rhodotorula). In contrast, SSc samples had a mean score of 5.039 for R. glutinis (5.232 for Rhodotorula). We were able to assemble the D1–D2 hypervariable region of the 28S rRNA of R. glutinis from each of the SSc samples. Taken together, these results suggest R. glutinis may be present in the skin of early SSc patients at higher levels than normal skin, raising the possibility that it may be triggering the inflammatory response found in SSc.

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Ovine Pulmonary Infection Caused by Rhodotorula rubra Pulmonale Infektion bei einem Schaf durch Rhodotorula rubra

Cited by 8 publications

References 5 publications

Diversity, Distribution, and Ecology of Fungi in the Seasonal Snow of Antarctica

Diversity, Distribution, and Ecology of Fungi in the Seasonal Snow of Antarctica

Sporadic Fungal Infections

High Rhodotorula Sequences in Skin Transcriptome of Patients with Diffuse Systemic Sclerosis

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