Stress tolerance and pathogenic potential of a mannitol mutant of Cryptococcus neoformans

Microbiology

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 937-943

  Chaturvedi, Vishnu ^a,c   Flynn, Timothy ^b   Niehaus, Walter G ^b   Wong, Brian ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptococcus neoformans; Heat stress; Mannitol; Osmotic stress; Pathogenicity

Indexed keywords

MANNITOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE MUTATION; GLUCOSE INTAKE; HEAT TOLERANCE; KARYOTYPE; MATING TYPE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION;

ANIMALIA; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI;

EID: 0029988469     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-142-4-937     Document Type: Article

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