Limited role of secreted aspartyl proteinases Sap1 to Sap6 in Candida albicans virulence and host immune response in murine hematogenously disseminated candidiasis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4839-4849

  Correia, Alexandra ^a   Lermann, Ulrich ^b   Teixeira, Luzia ^c   Cerca, Filipe ^c,d   Botelho, Sofia ^c   Gil Da Costa, Rui M ^c   Sampaio, Paula ^a   Gärtner, Fátima ^c   Morschhäuser, Joachim ^b   Vilanova, Manuel ^c,d   Pais, Célia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; SECRETED ASPARTYL PROTEINASE 1; SECRETED ASPARTYL PROTEINASE 2; SECRETED ASPARTYL PROTEINASE 3; SECRETED ASPARTYL PROTEINASE 4; SECRETED ASPARTYL PROTEINASE 5; SECRETED ASPARTYL PROTEINASE 6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMATOGENOUSLY DISSEMINATED CANDIDIASIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INVASIVE CANDIDIASIS; KIDNEY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN; SURVIVAL TIME; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID PROTEASES; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; KIDNEY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MUTATION; SPLEEN; VIRULENCE;

EID: 78049434544     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00248-10     Document Type: Article

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