Fungus
chrysosporium
Subclass of:
Mitosporic Fungi
Definitions related to chrysosporium:
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A genus of of hyaline hyphomycetes fungi in the family Onygenaceae characterized by the production of solitary, hyaline, smooth walled aleurioconidia. Although they are rarely encountered in human skin infections, Chrysosporium species have been identified as an emerging infectious agent in North American snakes.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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A mitosporic Onygenaceae fungal genus which causes adiaspiromycosis, a pulmonary mycosis of man and rodents. One of its teleomorphs is Ajellomyces.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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Any fungal organism that is not assigned to the species level but can be assigned to the Chrysosporium genus level.CDISC TerminologyClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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