Increased release of glucuronoxylomannan antigen and induced phenotypic changes in Trichosporon asahii by repeated passage in mice

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 423-432

  Karashima, Reiko ^a   Yamakami, Yuriko ^a   Yamagata, Eiji ^a   Tokimatsu, Issei ^a   Hiramatsu, Kazufumi ^a   Nasu, Masaru ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS ANTIGEN; GLUCAN; GLUCURONOXYLOMANNAN ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS ISOLATION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRICHOSPORON ASAHII;

EID: 0036235915     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-51-5-423     Document Type: Article

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