Typing and patterns of cellular morphological alterations in Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii isolates exposed to a panel of killer yeasts

Medical Mycology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 503-512

  Fuentefria, Alexandre M ^a   Faganello, Josiane ^a   Pazzini, Fabiano ^a   Schrank, Augusto ^a   Valente, Patrícia ^a   Vainstein, Marilene ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cryptococcus gattii; Cryptococcus neoformans; Killer yeasts; Scanning electron microscopy; Typing

Indexed keywords

METHYLENE BLUE;

AGAR MEDIUM; ARTICLE; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FEMALE; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HUMAN; MALE; MALT; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; YEAST;

ANTIBIOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; MYCOTOXINS; SACCHAROMYCETALES; TRICHOSPORON;

CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS VAR. GRUBII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS VAR. NEOFORMANS; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS;

EID: 34548289999     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13693780701416580     Document Type: Article

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