Fungal adaptation to the mammalian host: it is a new world, after all

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 511-516

  Cooney, Nicole M ^a   Klein, Bruce S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLYOXYLIC ACID; ISOCITRATE LYASE; OXYGEN; SIDEROPHORE;

ABIOTIC STRESS; ADAPTATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBON METABOLISM; CELL PH; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL SURVIVAL; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GLUCONEOGENESIS; HEAT TOLERANCE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IRON TRANSPORT; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FUNGI; HUMANS; MYCOSES;

FUNGI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 56949096142     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2008.09.018     Document Type: Review

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