Variation in Genotype and Higher Virulence of a Strain of Sporothrix schenckii Causing Disseminated Cutaneous Sporotrichosis

Mycopathologia

Volumn 172, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 439-446

  Zhang, Zhenying ^a   Liu, Xiaoming ^a   Lv, Xuelian ^b   Lin, Jingrong ^a  

^a DALIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Dalian Hospital of Dermatology   (China)

Author keywords

Disseminated cutaneous sporotrichosis; Genotype; Sporothrix schenckii; Virulence

Indexed keywords

CHITIN SYNTHASE; FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; TUBULIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGEMIA; GENE DELETION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SPOROTHRIX; SPOROTRICHOSIS; VIRULENCE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CHITIN SYNTHASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FUNGEMIA; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPOROTHRIX; SPOROTRICHOSIS; TUBULIN; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

MUS; SPOROTHRIX SCHENCKII;

EID: 80855148198     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-011-9441-7     Document Type: Article

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