A survey of heterobasidiomycetous yeasts for the presence of the genes homologous to virulence factors of Filobasidiella neoformans, CNLAC1 and CAP59

Microbiology

Volumn 147, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 2029-2036

  Petter, R ^a   Kang, B S ^a   Boekhout, T ^a   Davis, B J ^a   Kwon Chung, K J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Basidiomycetous yeasts; Cryptococcus neoformans; Virulence gene homologues

Indexed keywords

CAP 59 PROTEIN; CNLAC 1 PROTEIN; DNA; GLUCURONOXYLOMANNAN; LACCASE; MANNAN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PHENOL; POLYSACCHARIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS PODZOLICUS; DATA BASE; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FATALITY; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE ISOLATION; HETEROBASIDIOMYCETES; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SCREENING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROTYPE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE; YEAST;

CRYPTOCOCCUS PODZOLICUS; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; HETEROBASIDIOMYCETES;

EID: 0034873884     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-147-8-2029     Document Type: Article

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