Low virulence of a morphological Candida albicans mutant

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 311-319

  Diez Orejas, Rosalía ^a   Molero, Gloria ^a   Ríos Serrano, Inmaculada ^a   Vázquez, Amalia ^b   Gil, Concha ^a   Nombela, César ^a   Sánchez Pérez, Miguel ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Mutant strain; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FUNGUS MUTANT; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KIDNEY; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORPHOLOGY; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL LINE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED DBA; MUTATION; VIRULENCE;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 0032988262     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00250-5     Document Type: Article

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