Global warming will bring new fungal diseases for mammals

mBio

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Garcia Solache, Monica A ^a   Casadevall, Arturo ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS LAURENTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HEAT TOLERANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MAMMAL; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; PENICILLIUM MARNEFFEI; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION;

AMPHIBIA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; ROTIFERA;

EID: 77956833630     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00061-10     Document Type: Article

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