Malassezia fungi are specialized to live on skin and associated with dandruff, eczema, and other skin diseases

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Saunders, Charles W ^a   Scheynius, Annika ^b   Heitman, Joseph ^c  

^a PROCTER AND GAMBLE COMPANY   (United States)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA DEFENSIN; CATHELICIDIN ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE LL 37; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MYELOID DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 88; PIMECROLIMUS; PYRITHIONE ZINC; TACROLIMUS; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2;

ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTHRODERMA BENHAMIAE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DANDRUFF; DENDRITIC CELL; DERMATOPHYTE; ECZEMA; FOLLICULITIS; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GEOMYCES DESTRUCTANS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; MALASSEZIA; MALASSEZIA GLOBOSA; MALASSEZIA PACHYDERMATIS; MONOCYTE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SKIN DISEASE; TH2 CELL; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM; USTILAGO MAYDIS; ANIMAL; DERMATOMYCOSIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

FUNGI; MALASSEZIA;

ANIMALS; DERMATOMYCOSES; ECZEMA; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MALASSEZIA; PHYLOGENY; SCALP DERMATOSES;

EID: 84864053621     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002701     Document Type: Article

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