Markers for host-induced gene expression in Trichophyton dermatophytosis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 6584-6590

  Kaufman, Gil ^a   Berdicevsky, Israela ^a   Woodfolk, Judith A ^a   Horwitz, Benjamin A ^a,b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOPEPTIDASE; BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; CELLULASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ELASTIN; GENE PRODUCT; KERATIN; PROTEINASE; SCLEROPROTEIN; THIOREDOXIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DERMATOPHYTE; DNA SCREENING; ENZYME RELEASE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS CULTURE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKIN; TRI M 4 GENE; TRI R 4 GENE; TRICHOPHYTON; TRICHOPHYTON MENTAGROPHYTES; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DIPEPTIDYL PEPTIDASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; TINEA; TRICHOPHYTON;

EID: 25444440084     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.10.6584-6590.2005     Document Type: Article

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