Laboratory Medicine ›› 2017, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (10): 928-932.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-8640.2017.010.021

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Research progress of Prototheca

ZHAO Yue1, ZHU Weiwei2, LIU Jinyan2, LI Wenjing1, WANG Ying1, SHI Ce1, XIANG Mingjie1   

  1. 1. Department of Clinical Laboratory,Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine,Shanghai 200025,China
    2. Radioimmunology and Clinical Laboratory,Luwan Branch,Ruijin Hospital,Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine,Shanghai 200020,China
  • Received:2016-09-18 Online:2017-10-20 Published:2017-11-20

Abstract:

Prototheca is a kind of opportunistic pathogen which exists widely in nature. The clinical symptom of animal infection is mastitis,while human protothecosis is always classified to 3 forms,cutaneous lesions,olecranon bursitis and systemic infections. Currently,clinical medicine still regards morphological observation and biochemical tests as main determination methods. However,these methods are always effected by time-consuming,subjective influence and the lack of understanding in China,which results in low determination rate. For improving the knowledge of Prototheca,the biological characteristics,pathogenicity,epidemiology,identification,clinical symptoms and drug resistance of Prototheca are reviewed.

Key words: Prototheca, Protothecosis, Endospore, Opportunistic pathogen, Identification, Genotype

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