Morphogenic and genetic differences between Candida albicans strains are associate with keratomycosis virulence

Molecular Vision

Volumn 15, Issue , 2009, Pages 1476-1484

  Hua, Xia ^a   Yuan, Xiaoyong ^a   Mitchell, Bradley M ^a   Lorenz, Michael C ^b   O'Day, Denis M ^c   Wilhelmus, Kirk R ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN SAP5; PROTEIN SAP6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; DOWN REGULATION; EX VIVO STUDY; FUNGAL EXAMINATION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; INOCULATION; KERATOMYCOSIS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CORNEA; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KERATITIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRULENCE;

EID: 68349103023     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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