Network-assisted genetic dissection of pathogenicity and drug resistance in the opportunistic human pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Kim, Hanhae ^a   Jung, Kwang Woo ^a   Maeng, Shinae ^a   Chen, Ying Lien ^b,c   Shin, Junha ^a   Shim, Jung Eun ^a   Hwang, Sohyun ^a   Janbon, Guilhem ^d   Kim, Taeyup ^c   Heitman, Joseph ^c   Bahn, Yong Sun ^a   Lee, Insuk ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

ANTIFUNGAL RESISTANCE; BIOLOGY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DRUG EFFECTS; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENOME; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL; VIRULENCE;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DRUG RESISTANCE, FUNGAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PHENOTYPE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84924106880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep08767     Document Type: Article

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