Hypoxia and fungal pathogenesis: To air or not to air?

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 560-570

  Grahl, Nora ^a   Shepardson, Kelly M ^a   Chung, Dawoon ^a   Cramer, Robert A ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADAPTATION; AIR; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ANIMAL; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGAL GENE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSIS; PATHOGENICITY; REVIEW; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AIR; ANAEROBIOSIS; ANIMALS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELLULAR MICROENVIRONMENT; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; GENES, FUNGAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MYCOSES; OXYGEN; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI;

EID: 84860317915     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00031-12     Document Type: Review

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