Ultrastructural imaging of Candida albicans adhesion to rat genital epithelium through scanning and transmission electron microscopy

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 337-345

  Damke, Edilson ^a   Storti Filho, Agenor ^a   Irie, Mary M T ^a   Carrara, Márcia A ^a   Batista, Marcia R ^a   Donatti, Lucélia ^b   Gunther, Luciene S A ^a   Patussi, Eliana V ^a   Svidzinski, Terezinha I E ^a   Consolaro, Márcia E L ^a  

^a State University of Maring   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

adhesion in vivo; Candida albicans; genital epithelium; ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

CANDIDA ALBICANS; EUKARYOTA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL ADHESION; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL ADHESION; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 77955299190     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: 14358115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927610000164     Document Type: Article

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