A synthetic peptide selectively kills only virulent Paracoccidioides brasiliensis yeasts

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 251-260

  Kioshima, Erika Seki ^a   Aliperti, Fabiana ^a   Maricato, Juliana Terzi ^a   Mortara, Renato Arruda ^a   Bagagli, Eduardo ^b   Mariano, Mario ^a,c   Lopes, José Daniel ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c PAULISTA UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; P. brasiliensis; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; PEPTIDE PEP04; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE 04; COLONY FORMING UNIT; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; LUNG; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AMERICAN BLASTOMYCOSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PEPTIDE LIBRARY; PEPTIDES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPLEEN; VIRULENCE;

FUNGI; MUS; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS;

EID: 78951493727     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2010.10.019     Document Type: Article

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