Pneumocystis wakefieldiae

Pneumocystis wakefieldiae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Pneumocystidomycetes
Order: Pneumocystidales
Family: Pneumocystidaceae
Genus: Pneumocystis
Species: P. wakefieldiae
Binomial name
Pneumocystis wakefieldiae
Cushion, Keely & Stringer (2004)[1]

Pneumocystis wakefieldiae is a parasitic fungus first isolated from rats.[2]

References

  1. Cushion MT, Keely SP, Stringer JR. (2005). "Validation of the name Pneumocystis wakefieldiae". Mycologia 97 (1): 268. doi:10.3852/mycologia.97.1.268.
  2. Cushion MT, Keely SP, Stringer JR. (2004). "Molecular and phenotypic description of Pneumocystis wakefieldiae sp. nov., a new species in rats". Mycologia 96 (3): 429–38. doi:10.2307/3762163. PMID 21148866.

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