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22

Overview

Teun Boekhout is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and has contributed extensively to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Medicine, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, Cell Biology, Infectious Diseases, and Plant Science.

The scientist's work focuses on key topics such as Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases, Antifungal Resistance and Susceptibility, Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies, Fungal Infections and Studies, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Nail Diseases and Treatments, and Fermentation and Sensory Analysis.

Among the recent publications by Teun Boekhout are:

  • "Fusarium: more than a node or a foot-shaped basal cell" (2021) published in Studies in Mycology
  • "Oropharyngeal candidiasis in hospitalised COVID-19 patients from Iran: Species identification and antifungal susceptibility pattern" (2020) published in Mycoses
  • "The Quiet and Underappreciated Rise of Drug-Resistant Invasive Fungal Pathogens" (2020) published in Journal of Fungi
  • "The Potential Role of Marine Fungi in Plastic Degradation - A Review" (2021) published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "Trends in yeast diversity discovery" (2021) published in Fungal Diversity

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Boekhout include Bart Theelen, Ferry Hagen, Andrey Yurkov, Amir Arastehfar, and Toni Gabaldón.

Publication venues where Boekhout's work frequently appears include Medical Mycology, Fungal Diversity, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Microbiology Spectrum, and Journal of Fungi.

Best Publications

  • Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi

    Conrad L. Schoch;Keith A. Seifert;Sabine Huhndorf;Vincent Robert

  • Biodiversity and systematics of basidiomycetous yeasts as determined by large-subunit rDNA D1/D2 domain sequence analysis.

    Jack W. Fell;Teun Boekhout;Alvaro Fonseca;Gloria Scorzetti

  • A rare genotype of Cryptococcus gattii caused the cryptococcosis outbreak on Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada)

    Sarah Elizabeth Kidd;F Hagen;R L Tscharke;M Huynh

  • Large-scale generation and analysis of filamentous fungal DNA barcodes boosts coverage for kingdom fungi and reveals thresholds for fungal species and higher taxon delimitation.

    D Vu;Marizeth Groenewald;M de Vries;T Gehrmann

  • Methods for isolation, phenotypic characterization and maintenance of yeasts

    Cletus P. Kurtzman;Jack W. Fell;Teun Boekhout;Vincent Robert

  • ESCMID† and ECMM‡ joint clinical guidelines for the diagnosis and management of mucormycosis 2013

    O.A. Cornely;S. Arikan-Akdagli;E. Dannaoui;A.H. Groll

  • Recognition of seven species in the Cryptococcus gattii/Cryptococcus neoformans species complex.

    Ferry Hagen;Kantarawee Khayhan;Bart Theelen;Anna Kolecka

  • Skin diseases associated with Malassezia species

    Aditya K. Gupta;Roma Batra;Robyn Bluhm;Teun Boekhout

  • Dectin-1 is an extracellular pathogen sensor for the induction and processing of IL-1β via a noncanonical caspase-8 inflammasome

    Sonja I Gringhuis;Tanja M Kaptein;Brigitte A Wevers;Bart Theelen

  • One fungus, which genes? Development and assessment of universal primers for potential secondary fungal DNA barcodes.

    J.B. Stielow;C.A. Lévesque;K.A. Seifert;W. Meyer

  • Consensus multi-locus sequence typing scheme for Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii.

    Wieland Meyer;David M. Aanensen;Teun Boekhout;Massimo Cogliati

  • ESCMID and ECMM joint clinical guidelines for the diagnosis and management of rare invasive yeast infections

    M.C. Arendrup;T. Boekhout;T. Boekhout;T. Boekhout;M. Akova;J.F. Meis

  • Yarrowia lipolytica: safety assessment of an oleaginous yeast with a great industrial potential.

    Marizeth Groenewald;Teun Boekhout;Cécile Neuvéglise;Claude Gaillardin

  • Towards an integrated phylogenetic classification of the Tremellomycetes

    X.-Z. Liu;Q.-M. Wang;M. Göker;M. Groenewald

  • Dandruff-associated Malassezia genomes reveal convergent and divergent virulence traits shared with plant and human fungal pathogens

    Jun Xu;Charles W. Saunders;Ping Hu;Raymond A. Grant

  • Hybrid genotypes in the pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus neoformans

    Teun Boekhout;Bart Theelen;Mara Diaz;Jack W. Fell

  • ESCMID and ECMM joint guidelines on diagnosis and management of hyalohyphomycosis: Fusarium spp., Scedosporium spp. and others

    A.M. Tortorano;M. Richardson;E. Roilides;A. van Diepeningen

  • The Amsterdam Declaration on Fungal Nomenclature

    David L. Hawksworth;David L. Hawksworth;Pedro W. Crous;Scott A. Redhead;Don R. Reynolds

  • Notes, outline and divergence times of Basidiomycota

    Mao Qiang He;Mao Qiang He;Rui Lin Zhao;Kevin D. Hyde;Dominik Begerow

  • Finding needles in haystacks: Linking scientific names, reference specimens and molecular data for Fungi

    Conrad L. Schoch;Barbara Robbertse;Vincent Robert;Duong Vu

  • (1557) Proposal to conserve the name Cryptococcus gattii against C. hondurianus and C. bacillisporus (Basidiomycota, Hymenomycetes, Tremellomycetidae)

    Kyung J. Kwon-Chung;Teun Boekhout;Jack W. Fell;Mara Diaz

Frequent Co-Authors

Ferry Hagen
Ferry Hagen Utrecht University
Bart Theelen
Bart Theelen Utrecht University
Marizeth Groenewald
Marizeth Groenewald Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute
Jack W. Fell
Jack W. Fell University of Miami
Jacques F. Meis
Jacques F. Meis Canisius-Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis
Vincent Robert
Vincent Robert Utrecht University
Pedro W. Crous
Pedro W. Crous Utrecht University
Cletus P. Kurtzman
Cletus P. Kurtzman National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research
Wieland Meyer
Wieland Meyer Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute
Jos Houbraken
Jos Houbraken Utrecht University

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