Virulence profiles of ten Paracoccidioides brasiliensis isolates obtained from armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus)

Medical Mycology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 89-96

  Hebeler Barbosa, F ^a   Montenegro, M R ^a   Bagagli, E ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Armadillos; Dasypus novemcinctus; Hamster; P. brasiliensis; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARMADILLO; ARTICLE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENOTYPE; HAMSTER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; PATHOGENICITY; SPLEEN; TESTIS; VIRULENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BACTERIAL COUNT; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LYMPH NODE; MICROBIOLOGY; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PATHOLOGY; SOUTH AMERICAN BLASTOMYCOSIS; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

ARMADILLO; CRICETINAE; DASYPODIDAE; DASYPUS NOVEMCINCTUS; FUNGI; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS BRASILIENSIS;

ANIMALS; ARMADILLOS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CRICETINAE; HUMANS; LIVER; LUNG; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; TESTIS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0142170030     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/714043903     Document Type: Article

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