Recent advances in the use of drosophila melanogaster as a model to study immunopathogenesis of medically important filamentous fungi

International Journal of Microbiology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Hamilos, Georgios ^a   Samonis, George ^a   Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPERGILLUS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84858325108     PISSN: 1687918X     EISSN: 16879198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/583792     Document Type: Review

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