Galleria mellonella as a model system to study Cryptococcus neoformans pathogenesis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 3842-3850

  Mylonakis, Eleftherios ^a   Moreno, Roberto ^a   El Khoury, Joseph B ^a   Idnurm, Alexander ^b   Heitman, Joseph ^b   Calderwood, Stephen B ^a,c   Ausubel, Frederick M ^a,c   Diener, Andrew ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CAP59 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GPA1 GENE; HOST; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INOCULATION; INVERTEBRATE; MAMMAL; MODEL; MONOTHERAPY; MOTH; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PKA1 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAS1 GENE; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; HEMOCYTES; MOTHS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 21544465310     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.7.3842-3850.2005     Document Type: Article

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