Unanticipated heterogeneity in growth rate and virulence among Candida albicans AAF1 null mutants

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 3193-3198

  Rieg, Günter ^a   Fu, Yue ^a   Ibrahim, Ashraf S ^a   Zhou, Xiang ^a   Filler, Scott G ^a,b   Edwards Jr , John E ^a,b  

^a St John's Cardiovascular Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL ADHESION; GENE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; VIRULENCE;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0033006395     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.7.3193-3198.1999     Document Type: Article

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