Check List 16(6): 1457-1463, doi: 10.15560/16.5.1457
First report of Penicillium costaricense Visagie, M. Urb & Seifert (Eurotiales, Ascomycota) in South America and a second report for the world
Laureana de Vasconcelos Sobral‡, Diogo Xavier Lima‡, Joenny Maria da Silveira de Lima‡, Renan do Nascimento Barbosa‡, Roberta Cruz‡, Cristina Maria de Souza-Motta‡‡ Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
Corresponding author: Diogo Xavier Lima ( diogo_xavier00@hotmail.com ) Academic editor: Roger Fagner Ribeiro Melo © Laureana de Vasconcelos Sobral, Diogo Xavier Lima, Joenny Maria da Silveira de Lima, Renan do Nascimento Barbosa, Roberta Cruz, Cristina Maria de Souza-Motta. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Sobral LV, Lima DX, Lima JMS, Barbosa RN, Cruz R, Souza-Motta CM (2020) First report of Penicillium costaricense Visagie, M. Urb & Seifert (Eurotiales, Ascomycota) in South America and a second report for the world. Check List 16(6): 1457-1463. https://doi.org/10.15560/16.5.1457 |  |
Abstract
Penicillium costaricense was isolated in air samples from a surgery center in a public hospital in Brazil. The only published data on the occurrence of this species is from caterpillar intestine of Rothschildia lebeau in Costa Rica. The isolate was identified by morphology together with the molecular markers β-tubulin and calmodulin. This report is a warning call to understand the pathogenicity of this species. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of P. costaricense in South American and the second in the world.
Keywords
Fungal indoor; airborne fungi; Eurotiomycetes; taxonomy.