The yeast form of the fungus Candida albicans promotes persistence in the gut of gnotobiotic mice

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2017, Pages

  Böhm, Lena ^a,b   Torsin, Sanda ^a   Tint, Su Hlaing ^a,c   Eckstein, Marie Therese ^a,b   Ludwig, Tobias ^a,b   Pérez, J Christian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c USAID Challenge TB Project   (Myanmar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTOPIC EXPRESSION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FITNESS; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GERMFREE MOUSE; GNOTOBIOTICS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE TISSUE; MOUSE; MUCOSA; NONHUMAN; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; GERMFREE ANIMAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INTESTINE MUCOSA; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; GERM-FREE LIFE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MICE; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 85033240698     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006699     Document Type: Article

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