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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
ISSN: 1678-8060
EISSN: 1678-8060
Vol. 100, No. 8, 2005, pp. 903-908
Bioline Code: oc05181
Full paper language: English
Document type: Research Article
Document available free of charge

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Vol. 100, No. 8, 2005, pp. 903-908

 en Basic biology of Pneumocystis carinii check for this species in other resources - A Mini Review
Wanderley de Souza & Marlene Benchimol

Abstract

Basic aspects of cell biology of Pneumocystis carinii check for this species in other resources are reviewed with major emphasis on its life cycle and the structural organization of the trophozoites and cyst forms. Initially considered as a protozoan it is now established that Pneumocystis belongs to the Fungi Kingdom. Its life cycle includes two basic forms: (a) trophozoites, which are haploid cells that divide by binary fission and may conjugate with each other forming an early procyst and (b) cysts where division takes place through a meiotic process with the formation of eight nuclei followed by cytoplasmic delimitation and formation of intracystic bodies which are subsequently released and transformed into trophozoites. Basic aspects of the structure of the two developmental stages of P. carinii are reviewed.

Keywords
Pneumocystis carinii - life cycle - trophozoites - cyst form - fine structure

 
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