Increased expression of virulence attributes in oral Candida albicans isolates from human immunodeficiency virus-positive individuals

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 285-290

  Mane, Arati ^a   Gaikwad, Shraddha ^a   Bembalkar, Shilpa ^a   Risbud, Arun ^a  

^a NATIONAL AIDS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOLIPASE; PROTEINASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THRUSH; VIRULENCE;

ADULT; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS, ORAL; CELL ADHESION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOTYPE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84855968790     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.036269-0     Document Type: Article

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