Skin facilitates Candida albicans mating

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 4970-4976

  Lachke, Salil A ^a   Lockhart, Shawn R ^a   Daniels, Karla J ^a   Soll, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTOMER; GLASS; PLASTIC; SILICONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL FUSION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS TRANSMISSION; IMMOBILIZED CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INCUBATION TIME; MATING SYSTEM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; OPAQUE PHASE PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SKIN CELL; SKIN CULTURE; SURFACE PROPERTY; WHITE PHASE PHENOTYPE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CANDIDA ALBICANS; GENES, FUNGAL; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PHENOTYPE; SKIN; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 0041823472     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.9.4970-4976.2003     Document Type: Article

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