Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii species complexes cause
meningoencephalitis with high fatality rates and considerable morbidity, particularly in …

Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii are the two etiologic agents of
cryptococcosis. They belong to the phylum Basidiomycota and can be readily distinguished …

Among fungal pathogens, Cryptococcus neoformans has gained great importance among
the scientific community of several reasons. This fungus is the causative agent of …

Melanized or dematiaceous fungi are associated with a wide variety of infectious
syndromes. Many are soil organisms and are generally distributed worldwide, though …

Although Cryptococcus neoformans and cryptococcosis have existed for several millennia, a
century has passed since the discovery of this encapsulated yeast and its devastating …

Quorum sensing (QS) is one of the most studied cell-cell communication mechanisms in
fungi. Research in the last 20 years has explored various fungal QS systems that are …

For more than 40 years fungi have been known to produce pigments known as melanins.
Predominantly these have been dihydroxyphenylalanine (DOPA)-melanin and …

Melanins are enigmatic pigments that are produced by a wide variety of microorganisms
including several species of pathogenic bacteria, fungi and helminthes. The study of …

Progress in the plant polyphenol oxidases in the period 1978–1986 is summarized.
Methodology, occurrence, properties and physiological function of laccases and catechol …

Melanins represent virulence factors for several pathogenic fungi; the number of examples is
growing. Thus, albino mutants of several genera (in one case, mutated precisely in the …