Mycotoxins: Pathogenicity factors or virulence factors?

Mycoses

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 93-94

  Hof, Herbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYCOTOXIN; PATULIN; PENICILLIN G; PHYTOALEXIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ALTERNARIA; ALTERNARIA CITRI; ALTERNARIA MALI; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUSARIUM GRAMINEARUM; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SAPROTROPH;

ANIMALS; FUNGI; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MYCOSES; MYCOTOXINS; PLANT DISEASES; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 38849157085     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2007.01455.x     Document Type: Review

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