Pathogenesis of Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis

Aspergillosis: From Diagnosis to Prevention

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 345-379

  Ben Ami, Ronen ^a   Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Angioinvasion; Innate immunity; Mycotoxin; Virulence factor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919653716     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2408-4_21     Document Type: Chapter

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