Interaction of human phagocytes with pigmentless Aspergillus conidia

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 3736-3739

  Jahn, Bernhard ^a,d   Boukhallouk, Fatima ^a   Lotz, Johannes ^a   Langfelder, Kim ^b   Wanner, Gerhard ^c   Brakhage, Axel A ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d Inst of Med Microbiol and Hygiene   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CELL INTERACTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS SPORE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHAGOCYTE; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRULENCE;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; OXIDANTS; PHAGOCYTES; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 0034085078     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.6.3736-3739.2000     Document Type: Article

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