Histopathological study of murine pulmonary cryptococcosis Induced by Cryptococcus gattii and Cryptococcus neoformans

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 216-221

  Okubo, Yoichiro ^a   Wakayama, Megumi ^a   Ohno, Hideaki ^b   Yamamoto, Shuhei ^b   Tochigi, Naobumi ^a   Tanabe, Koichi ^b   Kaneko, Yukihiro ^b   Yamagoe, Satoshi ^b   Umeyama, Takashi ^b   Shinozaki, Minoru ^a   Nemoto, Tetsuo ^a   Nakayama, Haruo ^c   Sasai, Daisuke ^a   Ishiwatari, Takao ^a   Shimodaira, Kayoko ^a   Yamamoto, Yoshiro ^a   Kamei, Katsuhiko ^d   Miyazaki, Yoshitsugu ^b   Shibuya, Kazutoshi ^a,e  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^c TOHO UNIVERSITY OHASHI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^d CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY FIRST HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANIN; PHOSPHOLIPASE; PROTEINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GIANT CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; LUNG STRUCTURE; MACROPHAGE; MORPHOMETRICS; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PULMONARY CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; TISSUE EXPANSION;

ANIMALS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES, PARASITIC; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84878137781     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: 18842836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7883/yoken.66.216     Document Type: Article

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