Ultrastructural characterization of the agent of systemic yeast infection of owl monkeys

Medical Mycology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 139-145

  Miller, Georgina F ^a   Owens, J W ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aotus monkeys; Loboa loboi; Mycosis; Owl monkeys

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL WALL; CYTOPLASM; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GIANT CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INCUBATION TIME; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; LYMPHOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; MICROSCOPY; MITOCHONDRION; MONKEY; MYCOSIS; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; ORGAN; PATHOGENICITY; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PLASMA CELL; RIBOSOME; SOUTH AMERICA; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; YEAST CELL;

ANIMALS; AOTIDAE; BONE MARROW; KIDNEY; LIVER; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MONKEY DISEASES; MYCOSES; YEASTS;

AOTUS SP.; AOTUS TRIVIRGATUS; LOBOA; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 0032913803     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-280X.1999.00207.x     Document Type: Article

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