Quantitative agar-invasion assay

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 100-104

  Zupan, Jure ^a   Raspor, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Agar invasion; Clinical yeasts; Invasiveness; Quantitative assay; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

AGAR MEDIUM; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CULTURE MEDIUM; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; INOCULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AGAR; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; MYCOLOGY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VIRULENCE; YEASTS;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 42249088414     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2008.02.009     Document Type: Article

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