Subcutaneous infection of mice with Paracoccidioides brasiliensis induces a peculiar pattern of inflammatory and immune responses

Mycopathologia

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 7-14

  Gesztesi, Jean Luc ^b   Dias, Maria Angela Amorim ^b   De Souza, Angela Rico ^b   De Almeida, Sandro Rogério ^b   Lopes, José Daniel ^b   Mariano, Mario ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Paracoccidioidis brasiliensis; Subcutaneous infection

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BLOOD; FEMALE; FOOT; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; NUDE MOUSE; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; SOUTH AMERICAN BLASTOMYCOSIS; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, FUNGAL; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; FEMALE; FOOT; INFLAMMATION; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; MUS MUSCULUS; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS;

EID: 0032749372     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007005818869     Document Type: Article

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