Nadal Marina, Gold Scott E
Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-7274, USA.
Cell Host Microbe. 2007 Jun 14;1(4):246-8. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2007.05.012.
Cryptococcus spp. are potentially lethal fungal pathogens of humans and animals that are not easily communicable. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Xue et al. describe sexual reproduction of Cryptococcus in association with plants and identify plant-derived mating stimulatory compounds. These results may have wide significance in explaining environmental sources of effective inoculum in human disease foci.
隐球菌属是人类和动物潜在的致命真菌病原体，不易传播。在本期《细胞宿主与微生物》中，薛等人描述了隐球菌与植物相关的有性繁殖，并鉴定出植物来源的交配刺激化合物。这些结果对于解释人类疾病病灶中有效接种体的环境来源可能具有广泛意义。
