Ultrastructural localization of the secretory aspartyl proteinase in Candida albicans cell wall in vitro and in experimentally infected rat vagina

Mycopathologia

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 95-105

  Stringaro, Annarita ^a   Crateri, Pasqualina ^a   Pellegrini, Guido ^a   Arancia, Giuseppe ^a   Cassone, Antonio ^a   De Bernardis, Flavia ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aspartyl proteinase; Candida albicans; Cell wall; Rat vaginitis; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL WALL; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS, VULVOVAGINAL; CELL WALL; FEMALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

ANIMALIA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI;

EID: 0030924566     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006897208863     Document Type: Article

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