Fungal adaptation to the host environment

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 347-349

  Hube, Bernhard ^a  

^a HANS KNÖLL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; COMMENSALISM; EDITORIAL; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MALASSEZIA; MALASSEZIA FURFUR; MALASSEZIA GLOBOSA; MALASSEZIA PACHYDERMATIS; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; SYMBIOSIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; FUNGI; HUMANS;

EID: 68049137750     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2009.06.009     Document Type: Editorial

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