Double-Stranded RNA Mycovirus Infection of Aspergillus fumigatus Is Not Dependent on the Genetic Make-Up of the Host

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Refos, Jeannine M ^a   Vonk, Alieke G ^a   Eadie, Kimberly ^a   Lo Ten Foe, Jerome R ^b   Verbrugh, Henri A ^a   van Diepeningen, Anne D ^c   van de Sande, Wendy W J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; CHLOROFORM; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; GENOMIC DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL REPRODUCTION; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SIMILARITY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MATING TYPE; MYCOVIRUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RNA ISOLATION; RNA VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS STRAIN; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MYCELIUM; RNA VIRUS; VIROLOGY;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; MYCELIUM; RNA VIRUSES; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 84886041410     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077381     Document Type: Article

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