Chromosome 1 trisomy compromises the virulence of Candida albicans

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 551-565

  Chen, Xi ^a   Magee, B B ^b   Dawson, Dean ^a   Magee, P T ^b   Kumamoto, Carol A ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CHROMOSOME VARIANT; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GROWTH INHIBITION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRISOMY;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA PRIMERS; KINETICS; PLASMIDS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; MAMMALIA; PROKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0942301206     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03852.x     Document Type: Article

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