Which of the following fungi are called BLACK YEASTS?: (A) Saccharomyces cereveciae, (B) Exophiala jeanselmei, (C) Candida tropicalis, (D) Cryptococcus neoformans
Answer is B. Some fungi grow initially as BLACK YEASTS when incubated at room temperature but subsequently become mycelia during course of incubation. These are: Wangiella dermatitidis, Exophiala jeanselmei, Aureobasidium pullulans and Exophiala spinifera.