New features of invasive candidiasis in humans: Amyloid formation by fungi and deposition of serum amyloid P component by the host

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 206, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1473-1478

  Gilchrist, Kevin B ^a   Garcia, Melissa C ^c   Sobonya, Richard ^a   Lipke, Peter N ^c   Klotz, Stephen A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SERUM AMYLOID P;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL SURFACE; CELL WALL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS PSEUDOHYPHAE; GASTROINTESTINAL CANDIDIASIS; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INVASIVE CANDIDIASIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; NEUTROPENIA; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN DEPOSITION; PROTEIN INTERACTION;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS, INVASIVE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY; PLAQUE, AMYLOID; SERUM AMYLOID P-COMPONENT; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 84867543984     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jis464     Document Type: Article

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