Aspergillus fumigatus morphology and dynamic host interactions

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 661-674

  Van De Veerdonk, Frank L ^a   Gresnigt, Mark S ^a   Romani, Luigina ^b   Netea, Mihai G ^a   Latgé, Jean Paul ^c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN; PATHOGEN ASSOCIATED MOLECULAR PATTERN; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR;

ADAPTATION; ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ASCOSPORE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CONIDIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FUNGAL CELL WALL; FUNGAL LIFE CYCLE STAGE; FUNGAL STRUCTURES; HOST RESISTANCE; HYPOXIA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ASPERGILLOSIS; CELL WALL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PATHOGENICITY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CELL WALL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, FUNGAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE;

EID: 85031281143     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro.2017.90     Document Type: Review

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