Prototheca

• Published in: Molecular Detection of Human Fungal Pathogens pp. 892 - 897
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom CRC Press 2011; Taylor & Francis Group
• Subjects: FAMILY, HOME AND PRACTICAL INTERESTS; Food & beverage technology; Molecular biology; Mastitis Pathogen; Mother Cell; TOF Instrument; Fungi Culture Media; Sabouraud Glucose Agar; 18S rDNA; Bbl; Genus Chlorella; RFLP Analysis; Sample Preparation; RFLP; Restitutio Ad Integrum; 18S rDNA Sequences; Waste Water; DNA Extraction Kit; Systemic Glucocorticoid Treatment; Lactophenol Cotton Blue; Tributary Lymphnodes; Serological Diagnostics; GY; PIM; Tendon Sheaths; MALDI TOF MS; Tendon; DNeasy Plant Mini
• ISBN: 1439812403; 9781439812402
• DOI: 10.1201/b11375-101

Members of the algae genus Prototheca are the only currently known plants that may cause clinical infections both in humans and animals. The disease patterns caused by protothecae are generally referred to as protothecoses. In 1952, the heterotrophic colorless algae Prototheca (P.) zop¡i was identi–ed as mastitis pathogen for cows for the –rst time [1]. Infections were described all over the world and-due to intensive livestock breeding-evolved from an initially sporadic dairy cattle disease into an endemic herd disease. The rare infections of humans are mainly caused by P. wickerhamii; in some cases, P. zop¡i and P. blaschkeae were also isolated. The disease mainly affects immunosuppressed persons, e.g., human immunode–ciency virus (HIV) patients. Differentiation is made between cutaneous and subcutaneous protothecoses; in¼ammations of bursae, fascias, and tendon sheaths; and the more rarely occurring systemic protothecosis.