Taxonomia polifásica para identificação de Aspergillus seção Flavi: uma revisão

Abstract

The Aspergillus genre is one of the main groups of microorganisms in terms of relevance to industry, agriculture, and public health. The most important publication concerning this genre identification and classification was based in fenotipic criteria. However, due to the variability of the fenotipic characteristics, new investigations have been made. This work, thus, aims to present the main technics used to identify and classify species of the Aspergillus genre section Flavi. So, our approach will contemplate the Polyphasic Taxonomy based on micro-,macromorphological, and physiological characteristics, as well as on the production of metabolits, molecular data, and on the use of mass spectrometry through the MALDI-TOF MS technic.