Lodderomyces elongisporus: An emerging human fungal pathogen

Abstract

Lodderomyces elongisporus, a diploid ascomycete yeast, is attracting broad attention due to its increasing infection of humans. First discovered and described as Saccharomyces elongisporus in 1952 from Californian citrus concentrate Its medical relevance was first noted in 2008 when a retrospective analysis of 542 clinical Candida parapsilosis isolates from 25 countries revealed that ten isolates were actually L. elongisporus Since then, infections caused by this fungus have been reported in 14 countries on 5 continents (Fig 1

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