Infection stages of the dermatophyte pathogen Trichophyton: Microscopic characterization and proteolytic enzymes

Medical Mycology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 149-155

  Kaufman, Gil ^a   Horwitz, Benjamin ^a   Duek, Lea ^a   Ullman, Yehuda ^b   Berdicevsky, Israela ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Infection; Microscopy; Proteases; Trichophyton

Indexed keywords

ELASTIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; KERATIN; SERINE PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME RELEASE; EXPLANT; FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INOCULATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRATUM CORNEUM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRICHOPHYTON MENTAGROPHYTES; TRICHOPHYTOSIS;

ELASTIN; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; HYPHAE; KERATINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SKIN; TINEA; TRICHOPHYTON;

ARTHRODERMA BENHAMIAE; ARTHRODERMATACEAE; FUNGI; TRICHOPHYTON;

EID: 33847736564     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13693780601113618     Document Type: Article

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