Immunosensing during colonization by Candida albicans: Does it take a village to colonize the intestine?

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 263-267

  Kumamoto, Carol A ^a,b   Pierce, Jessica V ^a,b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSENSOR; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INTESTINES;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 79957854343     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: 18784380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2011.01.009     Document Type: Review

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