The pathobiology of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 80-87

  Borges Walmsley, M Ines ^a   Chen, Daliang ^a   Shu, Xinhua ^a   Walmsley, Adrian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCAN; CYTOKINE; ESTROGEN; NITRIC OXIDE; POLYMER;

CELL MEMBRANE; CELL WALL; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONIDIUM; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FUNGUS; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INCIDENCE; INFLAMMATION; INHALATION; LATENT PERIOD; LUNG; MYCELIUM; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOUTH AMERICAN BLASTOMYCOSIS; TEMPERATURE; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL WALL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESTROGENS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPERATURE;

FUNGI; MAMMALIA; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS;

EID: 0036468248     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(01)02292-2     Document Type: Review

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