Thermally dimorphic human fungal pathogens—Polyphyletic pathogens with a convergent pathogenicity trait

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1-17

  Sil, Anita ^a   Andrianopoulos, Alex ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AJELLOMYCES CAPSULATUS; AJELLOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; ARTICLE; BLASTOMYCES; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DIMORPHIC FUNGAL INFECTION; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; POLYPHYLY; SOUTH AMERICAN BLASTOMYCOSIS; SPOROTHRIX SCHENCKII; SPOROTRICHOSIS; TALAROMYCES MARNEFFEI; ADAPTATION; CLASSIFICATION; COCCIDIOIDES; FEMALE; FUNGUS; HISTOPLASMA; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TEMPERATURE;

AJELLOMYCES CAPSULATUS; BLASTOMYCES; COCCIDIOIDES; FUNGI; MAMMALIA; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PENICILLIUM MARNEFFEI; SPOROTHRIX SCHENCKII; TALAROMYCES;

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BLASTOMYCES; COCCIDIOIDES; FEMALE; FUNGI; HISTOPLASMA; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOSES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TEMPERATURE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84923790712     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21571422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a019794     Document Type: Article

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