Avirulence of Candida albicans CaHK1 mutants in a murine model of hematogenously disseminated candidiasis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 4280-4284

  Calera, José Antonio ^a   Zhao, Xiao Jiong ^a   De Bernardis, Flavia ^b   Sheridan, Michael ^c   Calderone, Richard ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^c BETTY AND GUY BEATTY CENTER FOR INTEGRATED RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE DELETION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0032769619     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.8.4280-4284.1999     Document Type: Article

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