Radioimmunotherapy is effective against high-inoculum cryptococcus neoformans infection in mice and does not select for radiation-resistant cryptococcal cells

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1679-1682

  Bryan, Ruth A ^a   Jiang, Zewei ^a   Huang, Xianchun ^a   Morgenstern, Alfred ^a   Bruchertseifer, Frank ^a   Sellers, Rani ^a   Casadevall, Arturo ^a,b   Dadachova, Ekaterina ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH 213; RHENIUM 188;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGAL CELL; INOCULATION; MORTALITY; MOUSE; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOTHERAPY; RADIOSENSITIVITY; THERAPY EFFECT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; LUNG; MICE; RADIATION TOLERANCE; RADIOIMMUNOTHERAPY;

EID: 65649121945     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01334-08     Document Type: Article

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