Candida albicans IRS4 contributes to hypal formation and virulence after the initial stages of disseminated candidiasis

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2923-2931

  Badrane, Hassan ^a   Cheng, Shaoji ^a   Nguyen, M Hong ^a   Jia, Hong Yan ^a   Zhang, Zongde ^a   Weisner, Nghe ^a   Clancy, Cornelius J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS, ORAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HUMANS; MICE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; VIRULENCE;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; MURINAE;

EID: 24944441831     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27998-0     Document Type: Article

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