date:Jul 10, 2014
egions of the fungal genome -- to further identify its exact subspecies. They found it belonged to the most virulent subspecies, Mucor circinelloides forma circinelloides (Mcc).
There are three closely related species, and one of them we typically find infecting humans, Heitman said. There was some chance that this yogurt isolate would be the human pathogenic form, and we found that it was.
The researchers then performed a number of experiments to assess the virulence of the fungal contaminant