Dimorphic fungal pathogens.

*This table includes the most common dimorphic fungal pathogens of mammals, plants, and insects; thus, it is not all-inclusive. Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which rarely causes human infection, is not included because it converts between yeast and pseudohyphae. Although Cryptococcus neoformans converts to a filamentous form during mating, is not traditionally considered dimorphic fungus. Candida albicans can be considered a polymorphic fungus because it grows as yeast, pseudohyphae, and hyphae.† Thermally dimorphic fungi.‡ Phylogenetic analysis suggests that Blastomyces may include two species, B. dermatitidis and B. gilchristii sp. nov.§ Although Lacazia loboi cannot be grown in vitro, it is phylogenetically related to P. brasiliensis and other thermally dimorphic fungi.¶ Penicillium marneffei has been renamed Talaromyces marneffei.# The taxonomic location of the subphylum mucoromycotina is uncertain (the zygomycota phylum is obsolete).*