Correlation between virulence of Candida albicans mutants in mice and Galleria mellonella larvae

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 153-157

  Brennan, Marc ^a   Thomas, David Y ^b,c   Whiteway, Malcolm ^b,c   Kavanagh, Kevin ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Candida; Galleria; Immunity; Pathogenicity; Virulence testing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS MUTANT; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; HOST; LARVA; MAMMAL; MOTH; MOUSE; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRULENCE; YEAST;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; FEMALE; LARVA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOTHS; MUTATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0037063976     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-8244(02)00374-7     Document Type: Article

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