Virulence comparisons of Aspergillus nidulans mutants are confounded by the inflammatory response of p47phox-/- mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 5204-5207

  Bignell, Elaine ^a   Negrete Urtasun, Susana ^a   Calcagno, Ana Maria ^a   Arst Jr , Herbert N ^a   Rogers, Tom ^a,b   Haynes, Ken ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P47; PROTEIN P47PHOX; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE OXIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS MUTANT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MICE; MUTATION; NADPH OXIDASE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; TIME FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 23344432372     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.8.5204-5207.2005     Document Type: Article

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