Trichosporon asahii: Taxonomy, health hazards, and biotechnological applications
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The genus Trichosporon includes yeasts that are naturally present within the human gastrointestinal tract, on the skin, and as part of the vaginal microbiota. This genus is an opportunistic pathogen, commonly found in fungal infections affecting immunocompromised individuals. The species Trichosporon asahii (T. asahii) causes the majority of trichosporonoses and is therefore widely studied, particularly in relation to its pathogenicity and its emerging resistance to antifungal drugs used to treat the disease. However, T. asahii also has important biotechnological applications, particularly its depolluting abilities and its bioproduction of flavor compounds (e.g., terpenes, C13-Norisoprenoids, C6 compounds, methyl hexanoate, and ethyl isovalerate) and antioxidant molecules. T. asahii also produces substances that inhibit certain contaminants found in dairy products, such as Kocuria rhizophila, Clostridium tyrobutyricum, and Salmonella enterica. Paradoxically, this yeast species also has some potential probiotic applications. This review aims to discuss and provide updates on the taxonomy, pathogenicity, and biotechnological relevance of T. asahii.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".