Esterase activity of Candida species isolated from immunocompromised hosts

Revista Iberoamericana de Micologia

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 101-103

  Girish Kumar, Chethrapilly Purushothaman ^a   Menon, Thangam ^a   Sundararajan, Thangavel ^a   Nalini, Sarathy ^b   Thirunarayan, Mandayam Anandampillai ^b   Rajasekaran, Sikhamani ^c   Venkatadesikalu, Manjetti ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

^b APOLLO HOSPITALS   (India)

^c Government Hospital of Thoracic Medicine   (India)

^d Institute of Community Health   (India)

Author keywords

Candida; Esterase activity; Immunocompromised; Tween 80 opacity test

Indexed keywords

ESTERASE; POLYSORBATE 80; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INOCULATION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS; CANDIDA INCONSPICUA; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; YARROWIA LIPOLYTICA;

EID: 33746508962     PISSN: 11301406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1130-1406(06)70023-7     Document Type: Article

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