Variants of Sporothrix schenckii with attenuated virulence for mice

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 933-938

  De Lima, Renata Ferretti ^a   Vidal Schäffer, Guido ^a   De Moraes Borba, Cintia ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Sporothrix schenckii; Storage method; Virulence

Indexed keywords

MINERAL OIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; INJECTION; INOCULATION; LUNG; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPLEEN; SPLENOMEGALY; SPOROTHRIX SCHENCKII; SPOROTRICHOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TAIL; VIRULENCE; WEIGHT REDUCTION; YEAST CELL;

SPOROTHRIX; SPOROTHRIX SCHENCKII;

EID: 0042071413     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1286-4579(03)00181-3     Document Type: Article

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