Emergence of pathogenicity in the Sporothrix schenckii complex

Medical Mycology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 405-412

  Rodrigues, Anderson Messias ^a,b   De Hoog, Sybren ^b   De Camargo, Zoilo Pires ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brazil; Calmodulin; First isolation; Sporothrix globosa; Sporothrix mexicana; Sporothrix schenckii complex; Sporotrichosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SAPROTROPH; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPOROTHRIX SCHENCKII; SPOROTRICHOSIS; BRAZIL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; SPOROTHRIX;

CALMODULIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

BASE SEQUENCE; BRAZIL; CALMODULIN; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPOROTHRIX; SPOROTRICHOSIS;

EID: 84876222409     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13693786.2012.719648     Document Type: Article

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