Cunninghamella elegans
| Cunninghamella elegans | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Mucoromycota |
| Class: | Mucoromycetes |
| Order: | Mucorales |
| Family: | Cunninghamellaceae |
| Genus: | Cunninghamella |
| Species: | C. elegans
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| Binomial name | |
| Cunninghamella elegans Lendner (1907)
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Cunninghamella elegans is a species of fungus in the genus Cunninghamella found in soil.
It can be grown in Sabouraud dextrose broth, a liquid medium used for cultivation of yeasts and molds from liquid which are normally sterile.
As opposed to C. bertholletiae, it is not a human pathogen, with the exception of two documented patients.