Malassezia caprae is a fungus first isolated in goats, which can cause opportunistic infections in animals.[1] Its type strain is MA383=CBS 10434. This species will not grow without any lipid supplementation. It grows slowly and forms small colonies (average diameter 1 millimetre (0.039 in)). In the lab, colonies will not grow at temperatures of 40 °C, differing from M. sympodialis-related species, such M. dermatis and M. nana, which can grow at this temperature. Malassezia caprae cells are ellipsoidal to more or less spherical.

Malassezia caprae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Malasseziomycetes
Order: Malasseziales
Family: Malasseziaceae
Genus: Malassezia
Species:
M. caprae
Binomial name
Malassezia caprae
J.Cabañes & Boekhout (2007)

References

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  1. ^ Cabañes, F. Javier; Theelen, Bart; Castellá, Gemma; Boekhout, Teun (2007). "Two new lipid-dependent Malassezia species from domestic animals". FEMS Yeast Research. 7 (6): 1064–1076. doi:10.1111/j.1567-1364.2007.00217.x. ISSN 1567-1356. PMID 17367513.

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