Virulence profile of ten Paracoccidioides brasiliensis isolates. Association with morphologic and genetic patterns

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 257-262

  Kurokawa, Cilmery Suemi ^a   Lopes, Catalina R ^a   Sugizaki, Maria F ^a   Kuramae, Eiko E ^a   Franco, Marcello F ^b   Peraçoli, Maria T S ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antibodies; Colony morphology; Paracoccidioides brasiliensis; RAPD; Virulence

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; FUNGUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA ISOLATION; EVALUATION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LUNG; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; PHENOTYPE; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; YEAST CELL;

EID: 27644587939     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: 16789946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0036-46652005000500004     Document Type: Article

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