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Rhodotorula spp.

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Rhodotorula is a genus of imperfect pink-colored yeasts of the family Cryptococcaceae, subfamily Rhodotorulodae, which grow as globose budding fungi (1).

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Georgiev, V.S. (2003). Rhodotorula spp.. In: Opportunistic Infections. Infectious Disease. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-296-8_23

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