Morphotypes of Candida albicans. Phase-contrast microscopy;Morfotypy Candida albicans. Mikroskopia kontrastowo-fazowa

Mikologia Lekarska

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 5-10

  Staniszewska, Monika ^a   Bondaryk, Malgorzata ^b   Kurzatkowski, Wieslaw ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE   (Poland)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Pleomorphism; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; GLUCOSE; PEPTONE; PHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAMERA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MORPHOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PH; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TEMPERATURE;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI;

EID: 80052168248     PISSN: 1232986X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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