Inoculation experimental animals with Paracoccidioides brasiliensis strains: An attempt to reestablish the dimorphic process and variation in pathogenicity as a function of time of preservation under mineral oil

Mycopathologia

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 135-138

  Mendes Da Silva, A M ^a   Borba, C M ^a   De Oliveira, P C ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Dimorphism; Inoculation experimental; Paracoccidioides brasiliensis; Preservation in oil; Variation in pathogenicity

Indexed keywords

MINERAL OIL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GRANULOMA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PRESERVATION; RAT; SOUTH AMERICAN BLASTOMYCOSIS; TIME;

ANIMALS; GRANULOMA; MALE; MINERAL OIL; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; PRESERVATION, BIOLOGICAL; RATS; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS;

EID: 0029829302     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02373019     Document Type: Article

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