Adhesion of Candida albicans mutant strains to host tissue

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 121-127

  Roth Ben Arie, Z ^a   Altboum, Z ^b   Sandovsky Losica, H ^a   Segal, E ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ISRAEL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Candida albicans; Mutant

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; FUNGUS MUTANT; HOST CELL; KERATINOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TARGET CELL; VIRULENCE;

ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; AMINOHYDROLASES; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL ADHESION; CELL LINE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; MUTATION; PYROPHOSPHATASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI;

EID: 0032526686     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00161-X     Document Type: Article

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