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Cryptococcus

Known as: cryptococcal, Torula, Torula Pers. 
A genus of fungi in the phylum Basidiomycota that grows in culture as an encapsulated yeast. Its sexual form is called Filobasidiella and its asexual… 
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CDISC SDTM Microorganism TerminologyClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium TerminologyCryptococcus neoformans Ab:ACnc:Pt:Ser:QnCryptococcus neoformans Ab:Titr:Pt:Ser:Qn

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Cryptococcus neoformansCryptococcus stepposus

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Yeasts

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Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Improved fermentation process for producing torula yeast
1984
1984
Dissociation in the production of B cell-stimulating factors (BCGF and BCDF) and interleukin 2 by T cells from a common variable immunodeficient patient.
In the course of an analysis of lymphocyte functions of common variable immunodeficiency patients, we found one patient whose T… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Bioavailability to rats of selenium in various tuna and wheat products.
Bioavailability of selenium (Se) in tuna and wheat at various stages of processing was studied in rats. The protein source of the… 
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Nutritional availability to rats of selenium in tuna, beef kidney, and wheat.
Weanling male rats were fed a selenium (Se)-deficient 40% Torula yeast diet for 4 weeks and were then continued on depletion for… 
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Effect of dietary selenium on the interaction between 2-acetylaminofluorene and rat liver DNA in vivo.
Abstract Male weanling Charles River CD rats were fed a Torula yeast-based selenium-deficient diet or the same diet supplemented… 
1977
1977
Rapid diagnosis of lymphocytic meningitis by frequency-pulsed electron capture gas-liquid chromatography: differentiation of tuberculous, cryptococcal, and viral meningitis
Cerebrospinal fluid specimens from patients with tuberculous (17 cases), cryptococcal (15 cases), and viral (14 cases) meningitis… 
1977
1977
Sequence of an oligonucleotide derived from the 3' end of each of the four brome mosaic viral RNAs.
A 3'-terminal oligonucleotide fragment, 161 bases long, can be obtained from each of the four brome mosaic virus RNAs by means of… 
Highly Cited
1964
Highly Cited
1964
ERYTHRITOL PRODUCTION BY A YEASTLIKE FUNGUS.
A yeastlike fungus, probably belonging to the genus Torula, was isolated from fresh pollen and was shown to produce erythritol in… 
1957
1957
Experimental schistosomiasis mansoni in mice maintained on nutritionally deficient diets. I. Effects of a Torula yeast ration deficient in factor 3, vitamin E, and cystine.
Review
1950
Review
1950
Yeastlike dematiaceous fungi infecting the human skin; special reference to so-called Hormiscium dermatitidis.
YEASTLIKE dematiaceous fungi from various sources are occasionally isolated in all microbiologic laboratories, and organisms of…