Amoeba provide insight into the origin of virulence in pathogenic fungi

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 710, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-10

  Casadevall, Arturo ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); ARTICLE; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; HEAT TOLERANCE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; MACROPHAGE; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SURVIVAL;

AMOEBA; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; HUMANS; MYCOSES; PHAGOCYTES; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84555195193     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5638-5_1     Document Type: Article

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