Agent-based modeling approach of immune defense against spores of opportunistic human pathogenic fungi

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue APR, 2012, Pages

  Tokarski, Christian ^a   Hummert, Sabine ^a,b   Mech, Franziska ^b   Figge, Marc Thilo ^b   Germerodt, Sebastian ^a   Schroeter, Anja ^a   Schuster, Stefan ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b HANS KNÖLL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; Chemotaxis; Host pathogen interaction; Immune defense; Individual based modeling; Opportunistic pathogenic fungi; Video analysis of life cell imaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875793655     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00129     Document Type: Article

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