The Cryptococcus neoformans genome sequencing project

Mycopathologia

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-7

  Heitman, Joseph ^a,b,c,d,e   Casadevall, Arturo ^f   Lodge, Jennifer K ^g   Perfect, John R ^c  

^a Departments of Genetics   (United States)

^b Pharmacology and Cancer Biology   (United States)

^c Microbiology   (United States)

^d Medicine   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Basidiomycete; Fungal pathogen; Genomic sequence; Meningitis; Mycology

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGAL INFECTION; GENE SEQUENCING; PATHOGENESIS; VIRULENCE;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; GENOME, FUNGAL; HUMANS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MYXOGASTRIA;

EID: 0033302820     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007136602930     Document Type: Article

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