Fungal virulence studies come of age

Genome Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2001, Pages

  Odds, F C ^a   Gow, N A R ^a   Brown, A J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BLASTOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL STRUCTURE; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; DERMATOPHYTE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUSARIUM; GENE CONTROL; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MACROPHAGE; MARKER GENE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULE; MOUSE; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; RABBIT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RHIZOPUS; SURVIVAL; VIRULENCE; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; MYCOSES; PHENOTYPE; PLANTS; VIRULENCE;

AJELLOMYCES CAPSULATUS; AJELLOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; ANIMALIA; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BLASTOMYCES; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; RHIZOPUS;

EID: 0035087418     PISSN: 14656906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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