Isolation and characterization of senescent cryptococcus neoformans and implications for phenotypic switching and pathogenesis in chronic cryptococcosis

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 858-866

  Jain, Neena ^a   Cook, Emily ^a   Xess, Immaculata ^b   Hasan, Fahmi ^b   Fries, Dietrich ^c   Fries, Bettina C ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; PATHOGENICITY; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHENOTYPE;

EUKARYOTA; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS;

EID: 66749190928     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00017-09     Document Type: Article

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