Malassezia (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Malassezia (formerly known as Pityrosporum) is a genus of related fungi, classified as yeasts, naturally found on the skin surfaces of many animals including humans. It can cause hypopigmentation on the trunk and other locations in humans if it becomes an opportunistic infection. Some confusion exists about the naming and classification of Malassezia yeast species due to a series of changes in their nomenclature. Work on these yeasts has been complicated because they are extremely difficult to propagate in laboratory culture.