Candida tropicalis biofilms: Effect on urinary epithelial cells

Microbial Pathogenesis

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 95-99

  Negri, Melyssa ^a,b   Silva, Sónia ^a   Breda, Diogo ^a   Henriques, Mariana ^a   Azeredo, Joana ^a   Oliveira, Rosário ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b Curso de Medicina   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Artificial urine; Biofilm; Candida tropicalis; Epithelial cells; SAP gene

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL VIOLET;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CANDIDURIA; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL ADHESION; CELL DAMAGE; CELL METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAPT1 GENE; SAPT2 GENE; SAPT3 GENE; SAPT4 GENE;

ASPARTIC ACID PROTEASES; BIOFILMS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CANDIDIASIS; CELL LINE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; URINARY BLADDER;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA TROPICALIS;

EID: 84862758756     PISSN: 08824010     EISSN: 10961208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2012.05.006     Document Type: Article

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