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Candida albicans Hyphal Formation and Virulence Assessed Using a Caenorhabditis elegans Infection Model

Candida albicans colonizes the human gastrointestinal tract and can cause life-threatening systemic infection in susceptible hosts. We study here C. albicans virulence determinants using the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans in a pathogenesis system that models candidiasis. The yeast form of C. albica...

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Main Authors: Pukkila-Worley, Read, Peleg, Anton Y., Tampakakis, Emmanouil, Mylonakis, Eleftherios
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 2009
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2772404/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19666778
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/EC.00163-09
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