Phospholipase activity of yeasts from wild birds and possible implications for human disease

Medical Mycology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 429-434

  Cafarchia, C ^a   Romito, D ^a   Coccioli, C ^a   Camarda, A ^a   Otranto, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Cryptococcus neoformans; Phospholipase activity; Wild birds; Yeasts

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOLIPASE;

ARTICLE; BIRD; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA FAMATA; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA GUILLIERMONDII; CANDIDA LUSITANIAE; CANDIDA PELLICULOSA; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CLOACA; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS ALBIDUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS LAURENTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FECES ANALYSIS; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INCUBATION TIME; MIGRATORY SPECIES; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; RHODOTORULA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SONGBIRD; TRICHOSPORON BEIGELII; YEAST;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIRDS; CLOACA; FECES; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MYCOSES; PHOSPHOLIPASES; YEASTS;

AVES; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CRYPTOCOCCUS ALBIDUS; DEBARYOMYCES HANSENII; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; PASSERIFORMES; RAPTORES; RHODOTORULA MUCILAGINOSA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRICHOSPORON BEIGELII;

EID: 48249125381     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13693780701885636     Document Type: Article

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