A parasitic phase-specific adhesin of Coccidioides immitis contributes to the virulence of this respiratory fungal pathogen

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 3443-3456

  Hung, Chiung Yu ^a   Yu, Jieh Juen ^a   Seshan, Kalpathi R ^a   Reichard, Utz ^a   Cole, Garry T ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FIBRONECTIN; GENOMIC DNA; LAMININ; POLYPEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; COCCIDIOSIS; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE STRUCTURE; LUNG MYCOSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; COLLAGEN TYPE IV; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; FIBRONECTINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, FUNGAL; LAMININ; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTAGENESIS; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0036084767     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.70.7.3443-3456.2002     Document Type: Article

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