Disruption of the gene which encodes a serodiagnostic antigen and chitinase of the human fungal pathogen Coccidioides immitis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 5830-5838

  Reichard, U ^a   Hung, C Y ^a   Thomas, P W ^a   Cole, G T ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE; COMPLEMENT FIXING ANTIBODY; DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; AUTOLYSIS; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; SPOROGENESIS; VIRULENCE;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODIES, FUNGAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHITINASE; COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; MICE; MITOSIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SERIAL PASSAGE; SEROLOGIC TESTS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0033806199     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.10.5830-5838.2000     Document Type: Article

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