Cryptococcus and Beyond-Inositol Utilization and Its Implications for the Emergence of Fungal Virulence

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Xue, Chaoyang ^a,b  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INOSITOL;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BASIDIOMYCETES; BASIDIOSPORE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CRYPTOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PLANT; REPRODUCTION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SOIL POLLUTION; TREE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; ZYGOMYCETES;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; HUMANS; INOSITOL; MENINGITIS, CRYPTOCOCCAL; PLANTS;

EID: 84866893647     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002869     Document Type: Article

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